Britain’s Got Talent justice Alesha Dixon has divided from her spouse of 18 years, according to reports.
The TV prima and Mis-Teeq vocalist has been with dancer Azuka Ononye since 2016, and they stock 2 daughters, 1 aged 11 and 1 aged six.
Alesha, 46, and Azuka, 43, ne'er officially joined that we know, but she has referred to him arsenic her ‘husband’ before, including successful 2017 portion appearing on Michael McIntyre’s Big Show.
However, Alesha has reportedly been confiding successful her friends that she feels their romance is present much of a friendship.
According to The Sun, the endowment amusement panellist wants to support her breakup from the begetter of her 2 children arsenic low-key arsenic possible.
A pal told the publication: ‘Alesha’s been softly telling radical adjacent to her that she believes their narration is implicit and they’re going to separate.
‘She and Azuka person been unneurotic astir 2 decades, but their narration has go much similar a friendship.’
The root added that some are ‘devoted parents’ and ‘want to absorption connected keeping their narration arsenic amicable arsenic imaginable for [their daughters’] sake.’
Alesha, who typically wears a ringing connected her wedding finger, appears to beryllium trying to fell her near manus successful caller pictures.
As she arrived for Britain’s Got Talent filming past month, she was seen without it successful a publicity image.
Meanwhile, connected Monday this week, choreographer and exemplary Azuka attended the movie premiere of Wicked astatine London’s Royal Festival Hall.
He took on their eldest girl portion Alesha was away.
It’s believed that Alesha and Azuka person not been photographed unneurotic publically since March erstwhile they attended an lawsuit successful Soho.
Just 1 week ago, they were seen astatine rapper Nas’ gig astatine the Royal Albert Hall, but they sat connected other sides of the venue.
The past clip Azuka featured connected Alesha’s Instagram was successful June erstwhile she performed connected the BGT unrecorded shows with a peculiar cameo from her different half.
Speaking antecedently astir their relationship, Alesha, who initially hired Azuka arsenic a backing dancer for her tour, shared that an unfortunate wounded brought them adjacent together.
‘I had a ft operation, and I couldn’t walk. He was virtually sleeping connected the floor, looking aft maine each day,’ she reminisced of 2006.
‘I was conscionable looking astatine him thinking, “That is for amended oregon for worse, isn’t it?” I looked a state.
‘He was sleeping connected the level due to the fact that I was connected the couch. I couldn’t adjacent get up the stairs. If helium tin transportation maine to the toilet, he’s a keeper.’
When asked successful 2020 astir the anticipation of getting down connected 1 knee, fixed that it was a leap year, she said: ‘I wouldn’t regularisation retired ever proposing to him. I’m not successful a unreserved to get joined but I would decidedly beryllium open-minded to it – wherefore not?
‘Unless he’s down connected 1 genu with a ringing past I’m not going to instrumentality him seriously.’
Just 3 years anterior to this, though, during Michael McIntyre’s Big Show Christmas Special, Alesha introduced Azuka arsenic ‘my beauteous hubby AZ; you tin telephone him Azuka!’, starring fans to judge that had, indeed, wed.
Alesha, who is simply a mum to Azura Sienna and Anaya Safiya, besides erstwhile said tat she didn’t deliberation she would person kids, but gathering Azuka changed everything.
‘I knew that we could person children unneurotic due to the fact that of our values, our morals, our reasoning aligned,’ she told Giovanna Fletcher connected her podcast.
Azuka is Alesha’s 2nd husband, arsenic she was married to British rapper Harvey from 2005 until 2006.
The Scandalous hitmaker precocious wrapped filming for the archetypal circular of BGT auditions and is owed to instrumentality to the amusement aboriginal adjacent year, sitting down the table alongside Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, and Bruno Tonioli.
Reps for Alesha Dixon and Azuka Ononye person been contacted for comment.
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