Stepping into history

Dancer Kevin Clifton makes emotional discoveries about his Canadian ancestry

- CAREN CLARK, HANNAH DAVIES

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Who Do You Think You Are?
Thursday, 9pm, BBC1

Kevin Clifton was stunned to uncover the truth about a family rumour that one of his ancestors was an indigenous Canadian in Who Do You Think You Are?

The Grimsby-born ex-Strictly Come Dancing pro travelled across the Atlantic, where he traced his paternal five-times great-grandfather John McTavish, and learnt that John’s partner Nancy was recorded as a ‘half-breed woman’, who was also known as Matooski.

We caught up with Clifton, 40, whose girlfriend and former