BBC Strictly Come Dancing star JB Gill's terrifying 3am raid as wife threatened with a knife

Strictly Come Dancing’s JB Gill’s location was breached into by robbers who brandished a weapon astatine his woman Chloe and sprayed him successful the look earlier fleeing with invaluable items

JLS and Strictly prima JB Gill wanted to support a shocking onslaught connected his household and home, which landed him successful hospital, a concealed to support his family.

JB Gill is taking portion successful this year’s Strictly Come Dancing and contempt his inheritance successful performing connected the signifier with boyband JLS, he says he’s not a trained dancer and doesn’t person immoderate acquisition with ballroom dancing. The 37-year-old won the 2012 Christmas peculiar with nonrecreational prima Ola Jordan and enjoyed it truthful overmuch helium instantly said yes erstwhile offered a spot successful the afloat series.

When helium was announced arsenic a contestant helium revealed his excitement aft having a taster successful the seasonal variation 12 years ago: "I danced successful the Strictly Christmas peculiar implicit a decennary agone and loved it, truthful erstwhile I got the telephone to articulation Strictly this year, it was an contiguous yes from me," helium said. "I’m raring to spell to and looking guardant to showing disconnected immoderate caller skills to the JLS boys."

One idiosyncratic who he’ll beryllium looking to for tips is his woman Chloe Tangney, 34, who is simply a nonrecreational dancer. The mates met erstwhile she was moving successful the backup troupe for JLS and they went connected to wed successful 2014. JB spoke astir however adjuvant it’s going to beryllium having a spouse who understands that world. He told the Daily Mail: "Chloe can't hold to connection proposal which I'm besides precise grateful for due to the fact that having her caput connected things and conscionable small things that I wouldn't cognize due to the fact that I'm not a trained dancer, you know, I'll beryllium capable to perceive from her and enactment alongside my pro with. She can't hold for the travel to commencement conscionable similar me."

The mates stock 2 children together, a lad named Ace, who is 9 and girl Chiara, five. The household unrecorded connected a sprawling 13 acre moving pig workplace successful Kent. Unfortunately successful November 2020 it was the people of robbers who broke into the location astatine 3am portion the household were sleeping. The popstar tried to support details astir the shocking incidental concealed but it emerged the criminals threatened Chloe with a weapon and sprayed JB successful the look with an chartless substance earlier fleeing the country with valuables. He ended up successful infirmary aft the attack, but thankfully nary 1 was earnestly hurt.

Following the interruption successful the mates accrued information astatine their home. A twelvemonth afterwards JB revealed however they were each coping aft being the people of specified an atrocious crime. He told the Mail astatine the time: "We are taking each time arsenic it comes. We conscionable truly privation to support our children. Our household is precise important to america and it underpins everything that we do."

He besides spoke astir however adjacent helium and his woman are and however they spur each different connected during hard times: "Everyone has days wherever they don't consciousness arsenic motivated arsenic usual," helium said. "Generally I'm precise motivated and my woman is precise motivating. We spot each different arsenic a partnership. erstwhile she's down it's my relation to measurement successful and cogwheel her up, and vice versa."

It surely seems arsenic though Chloe has been attempting to motivate JB for his stint connected the dancefloor. The mates person been sharing lingua successful feature TikTok videos, with 1 mocking the Strictly curse and different with Chloe putting her hubby done his paces during a ‘rehearsal’ successful their garden.

JB volition articulation eighties icon Toyah Willcox , DIY SOS leader Nick Knowles , and TOWIE prima Pete Wicks connected the BBC amusement . They'll beryllium strutting their worldly alongside popular sensation Shayne Ward , Olympic champ Sam Quek , Love Island's Tasha Ghouri , and EastEnders ' precise ain Jamie Borthwick . Comedian Chris McCausland , vocalist Wynne Evans , NHS advocator and TV presenter Dr. Punam Krishan , histrion Sarah Hadland , Gladiators celeb Montell Douglas , Olympic champ Tom Dean , and England footie ace Paul Merson.

Strictly Come Dancing airs each Saturday connected BBC1.