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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
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Frances Kindon & Zahna Eklund

Strictly star Kaye Adams' 'sick' lie about age left daughter heartbroken

Loose Women star Kaye Adams is taking to the dancefloor on this year's Strictly Come Dancing, after previously claiming she "didn't think she was young or glamorous enough" for the glitzy show.

And it isn't the first time age has been a problem for the 59-year-old presenter - as she once told her daughter she was 10 years younger than she actually is, and kept up the lie for more than a decade.

Kaye - who has Charley, 20, and Bonnie, 15, with her long-term partner Ian Campbell - invented a fake date of birth which she memorised just in case her eldest daughter questioned her, and only confessed the truth to Charley when she turned 12.

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