Dancing On Ice star Bez's childhood struggles after being thrown out by parents following prison stint
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Dancing On Ice star Bez’s childhood struggles after being thrown out by parents following prison stint

Felt he 'wasn't understood' while growing up

Dancing On Ice star Bez has proved the great survivor on the 2022 series of the ITV skating show.

The Happy Mondays and Black Grape band member, 57, has also enjoyed plenty of TV fame over the past few years, thanks to appearances on Celebrity Gogglebox and Celebrity Masterchef.

But even though Bez has broken through into the mainstream with his wacky persona, he has previously opened up about how he struggled in his younger years and also experienced prison.

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Dancing On Ice: Bez has defied the odds to stay on the show
Dancing On Ice: Bez has defied the odds to stay on the show (Credit: YouTube)

Dancing On Ice: Bez on ‘major problems growing up’

Speaking to The Guardian in 2015, Bez pinpointed how his father’s occupation as a police officer presented him with one of his “major problems growing up”.

That’s because, Bez claimed, he found such a “strong authoritarian background” very “difficult” to handle.

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Robert Leigh
Freelance writer