Paralympian Ellen Keane has admitted she swiped her dressing room door sign and her candy man hat when she was on Dancing With The Stars.
The gold medallist was paired with Stephen Vincent on the show this year.
And she admitted that when it was over, she robbed two items backstage from the RTE One show to keep as memories.
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She told us: “I didn’t actively rob something, I did rob my Ellen Keane dressing room sign. I think I’m the only one that robbed it as well. It’s on the door of our spare room.
“But I did accidentally take home my hat from my candy man dance - the sailor hat.”
Ellen made the honest admission at the premiere of Where The Crawdads Sing on Tuesday night.
She opened up about reality TV and Love Island – and how she knows now how much TV producers can edit something to make it look like contestants have a storyline.
After being on it [reality TV] you know there’s things that are staged you know.
“There’s a storyline you mightn’t even be aware of. The storyline being told until after you see the show.
“So the stuff we’re seeing like with Luca doesn’t come across as very nice to Tasha at all but he might go home and watch that and be like that was only half of it which is really really bad so I would say just take it with a pinch of salt but that girl is getting so much hate online and there’s loads of hate about disability there’s so much abilist hate.”
But Ellen said that while most fans were kind to her online, she wanted to make sure DWTS bosses didn’t make her own storyline about her disability.
“At times I experience loads of people coming up to me and being like oh my god you’re doing amazing for a girl with one hand. "And the producers of DWTS were really good like I told them I don’t want my story to just be about my arm I want it about me dancing and things like that so they knew they weren’t going to make it a storyline and I didn’t want any sympathy votes it was more about being present and just be the girl on the screen that has a disability,” she added.
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