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When magician Paul Daniels died last year, his wife Debbie put on a brave face. Now, her smiles are real again
DEBBIE McGee is a showbiz pro when it comes to painting on a spell-binding smile.
Even as magician Paul Daniels – the soulmate she was married to for 29 years – lay dying, Debbie forced herself to smile and to laugh to keep his spirits high.
But for 18 months after 77-year-old Paul died, there were many more tears than smiles for the heartbroken wife he dubbed “The Lovely Debbie”.
Now – thanks to Strictly Come Dancing – that is starting to change.
Debbie’s sister Donna Phelan said: “I have seen a change in her, I have seen her happy again, and she has a sparkle in her face.”
Donna, 57, who moved in with Debbie, 58, for six months after Paul died in March last year, says her sister’s smile is no longer painted on but genuine – thanks to her work with dance partner Giovanni Pernice, 27. Donna said: “She is putting in as many hours training as she can and she is exhausted. But her face lights up on the dance floor with Giovanni. “She always tries to keep happy, but you can see in her eyes now that she is really happy.” Donna gets tearful as she recalls the dark days when Paul was dying from brain cancer. She believes he never truly understood how ill he was as the cancer had affected the part of the