Ann Widdecombe: Brexit-backing, animal-loving Strictly star
Summary
Ann Widdecombe, a British politician and reality TV star, has died at age 78. She was known for her long political career supporting Brexit and socially conservative views, as well as for her appearances on Strictly Come Dancing and other TV shows.Key Facts
- Ann Widdecombe was a Conservative MP for Maidstone for over 20 years before joining Reform UK.
- She supported Brexit early and served as a Brexit Party MEP from 2019 until the UK left the EU in 2020.
- Widdecombe appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2010, reaching the semi-finals, and later took part in Celebrity Big Brother.
- She held strong socially conservative views, opposing abortion, assisted dying, and gay rights, and supported bringing back the death penalty.
- Born in 1947, she studied Latin and then Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford.
- Widdecombe served as prisons minister from 1995 and held shadow cabinet roles after 1997.
- She converted to Catholicism in the 1990s and received a papal honor in 2013.
- Beyond politics, she was an animal lover, founding a website section for her cats and supporting animal causes.
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