We talk glibly about life journeys — the trope has become a reality TV cliché — but the one Strictly professional dancer Johannes Radebe, has made, both figurative and literal, is extraordinary.
Growing up as a gay child in a dirt-poor South African township, young Johannes had a penchant for heels and feathers.
Against all odds, he started dance classes, aged seven, in a concrete-floored recreation centre in the macho mining community where he was raised.
His philandering alcoholic father
