Cast your mind back to yesteryear, before Alesha Dixon joined the judging panel of BGT.
Before the birth of her daughters, Azura and Anaya, and her secret marriage to Azuka Ononye, Alesha was a member of R&B group Mis-Teeq, and won the fifth series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2007.
Shortly afterwards, in 2008, she was interviewed by Channel Bee, an internet TV channel that only existed for a year.
But its interview with Alesha Dixon remains online. And it contains a remarkable anecdote from the pop star in response to a question about the last fight she had…
Back in 2008, Dixon was fresh out of winning Strictly (Credit: Alesha Dixon/YouTube)
‘Verbal fight’ Alesha Dixon had with someone in a supermarket after an accident
At first, when asked by Channel Bee about the last time she “had a fight” and with whom, Alesha looked puzzled.
She’d never been in a physical fight, she said. But a verbal fight? That got her thinking.
“The last verbal fight I had was in Waitrose,” she said. Of all places. “When I accidentally ran into the back of this guy. And his wife called me a T-A-R-T!” Her interviewer later informed her she was allowed to say the word “tart” on the show.
“I got so upset, I couldn’t believe she called me it.” At this point in the anecdote, Alesha points out that she “wasn’t even dressed like” one. “I was dressed in a tracksuit,” she explained. “And I was like: ‘I’m so, so sorry.’ I felt so bad that I’d run into the back of him. It was a genuine mistake.”
The lady told her: “Watch where you’re going,” and Alesha told her again that she was sorry. “And she started shouting at me in Waitrose!”
That’s when she asked the woman: “What did you call me?” while the husband was trying to calm down the situation.
“Yeah, that was embarrassing,” she concludes the story.
Her many successes in the charts and elsewhere have helped her amass a large net worth (Credit: Making A Scene/YouTube)
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