BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Sam Quek's devastating heartbreak with famous husband

Strictly Come Dancing contestant and Olympian Sam Quek went done a pugnacious idiosyncratic clip with hubby Tom Mairs which delayed them making a immense announcement to the world

Olympian and Strictly star Sam Quek revealed a tragic lawsuit took its toll connected her and her hubby Tom and they "weren’t capable to talk astir it properly".

England hockey subordinate Sam Quek, 35, is relishing getting dressed up connected Strictly Come Dancing arsenic she conscionable doesn’t person the clip for it these days. Sam, who won a golden medal for Great Britain’s Hockey squad astatine the Rio De Janeiro Olympics successful 2016, is mum to 2 tiny children and besides present works arsenic a broadcaster and presenter.

She explained wherefore she’s excited to find that broadside of herself again connected the Mirror's Invite Only podcast, saying: "This is the cleanable clip for maine to bash Strictly due to the fact that of the kids. I emotion each azygous infinitesimal of having kids but it is pugnacious and you bash suffer a small spot of yourself." Sam, who has been partnered with Nikita Kuzmin , continued: "Your priorities alteration due to the fact that they are your satellite , and you person to prioritise enactment and looking aft them up of getting glammed up and going retired with the girls."

The erstwhile Question of Sport prima is joined to entrepreneur Tom Mairs who runs a pupil spot institution successful Liverpool and appeared connected Channel 4 ’s Secret Millionaire. The mates stock 2 children unneurotic who were calved conscionable implicit a twelvemonth apart, Molly, three, and a lad Isaac, two. But it was earlier Sam fell large with Molly that the mates endured a heartbreaking calamity that had a immense effect connected them. In January 2020 and erstwhile she was 10 weeks pregnant, Sam miscarried. They fell large again conscionable months aboriginal but their fears implicit thing going incorrect again prevented them from announcing it to the world until they were six months along.

They decided to bash truthful successful an OK! mag interview and sprout successful which they spoke of wherefore they had kept their fantastic quality backstage for truthful long. "It’s a unusual one. Obviously it’s the happiest infinitesimal of our lives truthful far," Sam said. "But what happened successful January took a toll connected some of america and we weren’t capable to talk astir it properly.

"This 2nd pregnancy I’ve stopped myself getting excessively excited, which is rather sad. But it made it easier to support quiescent due to the fact that successful the backmost of your head, you think, 'What if?'" The mates wanted to stock their communicative successful an effort to rise consciousness of miscarriage and to assistance others successful the aforesaid situation.

Sam has appeared arsenic a contestant connected a mates of world TV shows earlier Strictly, specified arsenic I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! successful 2016 and Celebrity Masterchef successful 2020. Her stint connected the BBC creation amusement volition beryllium keeping her engaged for the foreseeable aboriginal and erstwhile it comes to adding a 3rd babe to their brood, it doesn’t look similar it volition beryllium happening successful the adjacent future. "We’ve not written it disconnected - but this infinitesimal successful clip we are done," she said. "I’m a familial duplicate - tin you ideate going from 2 to four?"

Strictly Come Dancing aerial connected Saturdays connected BBC1.