
“My daughter Turkessa, my son Pedrico and my 11 grandchildren are so thrilled that I’m in Dancing with the Stars,” she tells the perma-tanned hosts. The singer, standing in a television studio in west London, is about to go live on Good Morning America, where she will be unveiled as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars (the US version of Strictly Come Dancing). With make-up applied, wig in place and hip-shaking figure cosseted inside a soul-queen frock, it’s difficult to believe Mary Wilson is a 75-year-old grandmother.

As a founder of the Supremes, Mary Wilson enjoyed glitz and glamour before their ‘lustre faded’, she tells Craig McLean
