I like to put accent on fun in the bedroom...
Strictly curse won’t hit happy Nina
STRICTLY Come Dancing star Nina Wadia says role play has kept her marriage alive for 23 years.
The Goodness Gracious Me actress, 52, who will be starring in the BBC ballroom show this year, said she and her husband put on accents in the bedroom to spice things up.
Nina, who married Canadian composer Raiomond Mirza in 1998, said having a good sex life is “hugely important... if you want your marriage to last long”.
“I can’t imagine still being with my husband if we’d run out of steam,” she said. “Role play has come in very handy.”
Former EastEnders star Nina said: “For me it’s accents.
“He’s c**p at doing them, it’s just the fact he makes the effort.
“You have to be brave. It’s easier than you think because you’re not being yourself.” She added: “I have the best sex toy in the world – it’s called my husband.”
The Strictly curse has been blamed for several break-ups after stars have fallen for their dance partners on the show.
But that will not be a problem for Nina, who said proudly of Raiomond: “I wouldn’t be anywhere in my work, career or life if I hadn’t had the husband that I have. We are equal partners in everything we do.”
Speaking on the Brown Girls Do It Too podcast, Nina said it is important for Indian women to get rid of the “shame and guilt” around enjoying sex.
The mum to Tia, 17, and Aidan, 14, was born in India but moved to Hong Kong aged nine.
“Nobody spoke about anything,” she said of growing up in India. “There seems to be this thing of guilt and shame.
“If you’re thinking about sex there must be something wrong with it.
“That’s the one thing I think we need to fight for more than anything else.To have a life and career before marriage or at the same time as marriage. Men want that, all the time. Who says I can’t?”
Nina said she only started to enjoy her sex life in her late 20s. “I didn’t want to settle down [and] be in a monogamous relationship straight off the bat,” she said.
“A lot of women were upset. My gang were just: ‘We want to enjoy sex.
“It’s equal. We have to have as much fun as the guy’.”
Speaking about Strictly, she joked: “I’ve always danced like nobody’s watching, so if we blindfold the judges I could win.”