STOURBRIDGE salsa gran Paddy Jones and her toyboy dance partner patched things up to appear in front of Aussie heart-throb Peter Andre on TV game show Odd One In.
Great-grandmother Paddy, aged 77, was invited to appear on the show, hosted by Bradley Walsh, which saw singer Andre and comic Jason Manford pitting their wits against comedians Jenny Eclair and Jack Whitehall to guess from an unlikely line-up who had won a Spanish talent competition.
After much guessing the penny dropped and Mysterious Girl singer Peter Andre guessed correctly that it was septuagenarian Paddy who had shimmied her way to success on Spanish TV talent show ‘Tu Si Que Vales’ with her salsa instructor Nicko Espinosa - 40 years her junior.
The unconventional pair, who dissolved their dance partnership earlier this year shortly after they tumbled to the floor during a live TV performance in Lima, were later invited to resurrect one of their racy routines for the show, screened on June 18, before getting to rub shoulders with stars including Andre.
Paddy, who ran Paddy’s Fabrics in Stourbrige before moving to Spain and becoming the oldest salsa dancer in the world, said afterwards: “He was delightful.”
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