Strictly Come Dancing professional Nikita Kuzmin has revealed how his grandmother “surprised” his family when she arrived in Poland 13 hours early on The One Show.
During Monday’s (March 21) instalment of the popular BBC One show, Big Brother star Emma Willis and Jermaine Jenas welcomed the 24-year-old ballroom dancer and his fellow Strictly star Graziano Di Prima onto the show.
Amid the ongoing conflict happening in Ukraine, Nikita gave fans an insight into what life is like for the hundreds of thousands of refugees who managed to make it across the border to Poland after he picked up his elderly family member.
Although the star was overwhelmed to see his grandmother safe and well in the heart of Poland, he confessed how he was still overcome with emotion for the women and children now homeless and in a foreign country.
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When the mum-of-three asked what it was like for refugees overseas, he revealed how his grandmother arrived at the border earlier than planned despite recovering from an operation just weeks earlier.
He told viewers at home: “She’s now out. She managed to escape from Kyiv.
“We also didn’t know if she would manage to just, on the way from Kyiv to Poland, on the streets when the bus passes we didn’t know if the Russian troops were going to shoot the bus.
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He continued: “And we were all the time kind of anxious of these two check points and then on the border she had to walk five miles and she hadn’t until last year walked, she had an operation.”
“This is when your instincts kick in I think and she just managed to do all of it and she just surprised us cause she messaged us at 3 in the night.”
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“I was just on the way, 13 hours away from Frankfurt so Poland, and she surprised us and arrived 13 hours in advance just cause she managed to go so quickly.
“She’s just so brave and I love her so much,” he gushed.
The star couldn’t help but share his relief with his loyal legion of fans online as he shared a lengthy post on social media with emotional snaps of him with his grandmother safe with his family.
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