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Strictly Come Dancing's Ellie Simmonds adopted parents fostered 70 children

The incredible couple who adopted Paralympian Ellie Simmonds also took in 70 other children from broken homes.

Strictly Come Dancing star Ellie revealed this week that she was raised by Stephen and Valerie Simmonds in the West Midlands - and not her birth parents.

She joined their family, which also had four other kids when she was just three months old.

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