BBC Strictly star Tasha Ghouri's short-lived romance with pro dancer embroiled in scandal

Love Island's Tasha Ghouri has been paired up with nonrecreational dancer Aljaz Skorjanec for her stint connected Strictly and she was antecedently linked romantically with 1 of the show's much arguable stars

Love Island turned BBC Strictly prima Tasha Ghouri's creation acquisition has been causing a disturbance up of the contest.

The talented performer took up ballet arsenic a youngster and aboriginal trained successful commercialized thoroughfare style, going onto enactment arsenic a freelance dancer.

But she insists: "Commercial creation is precise antithetic to ballroom creation and Latin, I'm inactive having to portion down and relearn, adjacent walking successful cha cha measurement is weird to me."

Her younger talents aren't the lone transportation she's had to dancing, arsenic Tasha, 26, enjoyed a little romance with a erstwhile nonrecreational dancer from the show.

She struck up a romance with Giovanni Pernice erstwhile they connected connected Instagram backmost successful January 2022. The narration is said to person ended aft 4 months and Tasha went onto appeared connected Love Island, wherever she recovered emotion with chap contestant Andrew Le Page.

Giovanni, 34, near Strictly earlier this twelvemonth pursuing bullying allegations from his Strictly contestant creation spouse Amanda Abbington, which helium firmly denies.

"I wasn't there," Tasha told the Sun erstwhile asked astir the bullying allegations. "I'm present for my ain acquisition connected the show, truthful I'm focusing connected myself to conscionable truly bask it.

"I've met up with him (Giovanni) a fewer times but that was years ago. We are not successful interaction now, this is similar past history. I'm truthful blessed with Andrew and he's my future, truthful I don't privation to speech astir the past."

Hailing from Thirsk, North Yorks, the world TV prima was calved deaf and didn't talk until she was five. Tasha had communicated solely done British Sign Language up until that point.

Tasha has been teamed up with nonrecreational dancer Aljaz Skorjanec for the show, uploading a video to TikTok which saw her lying connected the level looking exhausted arsenic helium asked her to 'practice 1 much time'. Smiling to herself, the Love Island prima shook her caput successful reply successful the light-hearted clip and added: 'On a superior note, I americium loving it.'

After her stint connected Love Island arsenic the archetypal deaf contestant, Tasha became a viral sensation connected TikTok for her Get Ready With Me video which saw millions watched her region her cochlear implant and talk with her deaf accent. She has written a romance caller too, Hits Different, featuring a main quality with proceeding loss.

"Reading each of your reviews honestly has maine beaming broadside to side," she wrote connected Instagram. "Never successful a cardinal years did I deliberation I would co-author a romance caller with a main quality who is deaf and wears a cochlear implant.

"People with disabilities tin besides find love, tin beryllium confident, tin beryllium resilient, tin pursuit their dreams, we are besides worthy. Growing up determination wasn't immoderate practice connected TV, successful books etc and this was cardinal erstwhile it came to Hits Different."