Motsi Mabuse has said there was a family meeting before she agreed to join Strictly Come Dancing, amid "anxiety" over her and sister Oti Mabuse both being on the show.
The dancer, 41, joined the judging panel of the BBC show back in 2019, which saw her work alongside younger sister Oti, 32, who had been a dancer on the show since 2015.
She has now revealed that the prospect of having the two siblings on the show caused some "anxiety" within their family, and that they had a meeting before she signed up.
"We had a family conversation. Everybody was involved because it was such a big decision. There was a bit of anxiety within the family [about the siblings being on the show together] and how [it would work]," she said recently.
The family meeting in 2019 had included the two siblings, their father Peter Mabuse, their mother Dudu Mabuse and their sister Phemelo Mabuse, according to the Sun.
Motsi said: "They were like: 'You can't judge your sister.' I said: 'I'm not judging my sister.' So it was for the family to say: 'Everybody be at their best and then we are all good'."
She recalled that after her first day on the BBC show her younger sister Oti had said she was "so good". The dancer is said to have told Motsi that she was "so proud" of her.
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Motsi said their dad Peter was also proud of her, though he teased that Oti and her dance partner Kelvin Fletcher, now 38, had taken the attention away from her own debut.
He's said to have told Motsi that viewers would be waiting to hear her comments about Oti and Kelvin, before teasing that "their dance stole [her] thunder".
The new series of Strictly however will see Motsi return without her sister, who announced earlier this year that she had quit the show after seven years as one of its dancers.
Motsi - who is back on the judging panel alongside Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke and Craig Revel Horwood - said that she is "really curious" to see how it will be without Oti.
"She's my favourite dancer. I will miss her, but I think she left her spirit. I will always carry that spirit on," she commented recently about the departure of her younger sister.
The new series of Strictly Come Dancing launches on Friday (September 23) on BBC One at 7pm. The first live show will air the following night (September 24) from 6.45pm.
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