Debbie McGee: ‘Since Paul died, I can’t face doing magic’

Last year she made it to the Strictly final – now she’s forging a career of her own. Debbie McGee on life without magician Paul Daniels, grief and their unconventional loveLast year it was voted TV’s greatest comedy putdown: in 1995, the spoof TV host Mrs Merton asked Debbie McGee: “What first, Debbie, attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?” Daniels was 56 at the time, a successful magician and not much of looker; McGee was 36, his glamorous assistant. It wa