Strictly Come Dancing’s Anton Du Beke reveals physical abuse from ‘heavy drinker’ father: ‘He’d just fly off the handle’

Anton Du Beke says his father used to hit him with a belt as a child(Picture: Steve Meddle/REX)Anton Du Beke has opened up about the physical abuse he suffered from his late father, who had been a heavy drinker.The Strictly Come Dancing star, 54, says his father Antal, who died in 2001, would use a belt to hit him with as a child. He told The Times: ‘He was the hard, eastern European type. Heavy drinker, heavy smoker. ‘It was a different time and you’d have the belt t