Coronation Street star and Strictly winner opens up on ‘relationship scrutiny’

Former Coronation Street star Ellie Leach opened up astir the challenging narration scrutiny that she faced portion filming Strictly Come Dancing.

The Coronation Street actress, 23, and her pro partner, Vito Coppola, 31, won the glitterball trophy (which she’s since broken) aft going up successful the last against Bobby Brazier with Dianne Buswell and Layton Williams with Nikita Kuzmin.

Over their clip connected the BBC One competition, the mates captured the public’s hearts and sent romance rumours swirling, with multiple clues teasing that the infamous Strictly curse had struck.

Earlier this year, during an occurrence of recently-axed ITVBe world bid Drama Queens — a fly-on-the-wall documentary that followed the lives of assorted soap stars behind the scenes — Ellie spoke to her mum Karen astir beingness on Strictly.

The Faye Windass prima said: ‘I deliberation that doing Strictly opened my eyes to being like… successful a fishbowl.

‘I didn’t realise that each azygous happening you did would beryllium enactment successful the papers.’

She added: ‘It’s upsetting that radical judge what they read. Nine times retired of 10 it isn’t true.’

At 1 constituent it was reported that she was successful a narration with chap Strictly and soapland prima Bobby Brazier, 21, who plays Freddie Slater successful EastEnders.

 The 2 seemingly grew closer, whilst competing successful the deed dancing competition.

They besides took portion successful the arena amusement earlier this year, but are said to have since gone their abstracted ways.

According to reports, they realised that they had been spending little clip unneurotic aft returning location from the tour, and decided to telephone clip connected their relationship.

‘Love blossomed betwixt them erstwhile they were successful adjacent quarters connected the tour, but erstwhile that ended they some spent overmuch little clip together,’ an insider claimed.

‘That gave them abstraction to deliberation astir the future, which is apt to instrumentality them successful precise antithetic directions implicit the coming twelvemonth oregon two.’

‘So they decided the champion happening to bash was discontinue portion they were up and portion they were inactive pals, due to the fact that they some truly cherish the relationship they have,’ the root added to The Sun.

This nonfiction was primitively published connected 11th April 2024.

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