Debbie McGee is "open to finding love again" following her breast cancer scare.
Debbie McGee
The 60-year-old star hasn't been in a relationship since her late husband and magician Paul Daniels passed away in 2016, but has said her recent breast cancer scare - in which doctors had to remove two tumours from her left breast before thankfully giving her the all-clear - has made her consider "meeting someone else".
She said: "I feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world. It's made me think even more to make the most of today and I would say I'm open to finding love again. It's the same with my career. I let things happen and that's what I think about meeting someone else.
"If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it doesn't. But how wonderful if it did."
Debbie - who was her husband Paul's assistant - even says her late spouse told her to find love again, before he passed away just one month after learning he had an incurable brain tumour.
The 'Strictly Come Dancing' star added: "He would want me to find love again, yeah. With him being so much older than me, we did talk about that.
"We used to joke because I had a great-uncle who married someone much younger than him - then she died of a brain haemorrhage suddenly before him, when she was quite young.
"So I always joked with Paul that could happen to me, or I could get run over by a car or something. And he said, 'Yes, but the statistics are that it's bound to be me first'.
"He always used to say, 'But I know you'll cope'. And he said, 'I hope you do meet somebody else. I don't want you to be on your own for the rest of your life'. He always said, 'I know you'll cope.' "
And although Debbie has been pictured with "mystery men", she insists she hasn't been on any dates since Paul passed away.
Speaking to The Sun on Sunday newspaper, she said: "I've got male friends I've been to dinner with but I haven't actually been on any dates.
"I haven't had many offers because I think people have respect for you. Well, they certainly seem to with me! People are just lovely to me. I just always feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world."
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