![]() The singer features in a new documentary about the record label – Hitsville: The Making of Motown. ![]() Not that Wilson harbours any ill will towards Motown. In the annals of pop, The Supremes are one of the most successful girl groups of all time. Laughter from the studio audience in America filters down the line – the joke being, of course, that Wilson was cool years before her first child was even born.Īs a founding member of The Supremes, Wilson dominated the charts on both sides of the Atlantic between 19 with hits such as Where Did Our Love Go?, Baby Love, Stop! In The Name of Love, You Can’t Hurry Love and You Keep Me Hangin’ On. “My daughter Turkessa, my son Pedrico and my 11 grandchildren are so thrilled that I’m in Dancing with the Stars,” she tells the perma-tanned hosts. The singer, standing in a television studio in west London, is about to go live on Good Morning America, where she will be unveiled as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars (the US version of Strictly Come Dancing). ![]() With make-up applied, wig in place and hip-shaking figure cosseted inside a soul-queen frock, it’s difficult to believe Mary Wilson is a 75-year-old grandmother. As a founder of the Supremes, Mary Wilson enjoyed glitz and glamour before their ‘lustre faded’, she tells Craig McLean ![]()
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