Every time the Strictly Curse has struck - Worst break-ups and steamiest affairs

BBC household amusement Strictly Come Dancing has gained a chaotic estimation - aft being blamed successful playing a manus successful couples breaking up and others lighting up.

Celebrity contestants hooking up with their nonrecreational creation partners - and adjacent each different - has go arsenic overmuch a diagnostic of the amusement arsenic sequins and fake tan implicit the years. Fans coined the word 'Strictly curse' successful airy of each the relationships to person imploded arsenic a effect of the show.

As erstwhile bid volition testify, the enslaved betwixt couples tin widen mode beyond the realms of ballroom dancing, with the steamy amusement offering the cleanable backdrop for romance to ignite. While different stars person chosen to chuck their semipermanent partners aft having their eyes widened successful the glittering satellite of competitory dance.

Many stars person succumbed to temptation and fallen caput implicit heels for their partner, successful immoderate cases astatine the outgo of their existing relationships.

Even big Claudia Winkleman has admitted she afloat understands wherefore the BBC amusement has skirted contention successful the past.

"I understand, it’s precise intense," she told the Radio Times of the arguable reputation. I don’t judge successful the curse, but I deliberation tons of radical person travel successful azygous and they mightiness person met idiosyncratic oregon had a small romance.

"It’s intoxicating, Strictly, due to the fact that you’re each portion of this bonzer juggernaut. So I don’t deliberation radical autumn successful emotion with people, they mightiness conscionable emotion the experience," she suggested.

So arsenic the amusement makes a glittering instrumentality to TV schedules tonight, we instrumentality a look astatine the stars who person recovered lasting love, been inspired to dump their existing spouse and adjacent succumbed to a passionate fling with their partner.

Neil and Katya Jones

The bittersweet illness of Neil and Katya Jones' six twelvemonth matrimony has been blamed connected the show's curse.

During the 2018 series, daze pictures emerged of Katya locking lips with her creation spouse Seann Walsh. The brace were spotted snogging successful the street erstwhile a precocious nighttime creation rehearsal descended into a boozy travel to the pub.

Katya was joined to chap dancer and Strictly co-star Neil Jones astatine the clip portion Seann was besides successful a narration with histrion Rebecca Humphries.

Kiss-gate stole headlines for the BBC amusement that year, with a downcast Katya and Seann forced to marque a grovelling apology for their antics connected spin-off amusement It Takes Two.

The duo awkwardly carried connected successful the contention contempt a immense nationalist backlash - with Neil near to ticker from the sidelines arsenic they danced successful the workplace unneurotic conscionable days aft pictures of the snog deed quality stands.

After vowing kiss-gate would not effect them, Katya and Neil's matrimony ne'er recovered from the scandal.

The brace confirmed their break-up connected Instagram successful a associated connection conscionable 10 months later.

"We volition ever emotion each other, conscionable successful a antithetic mode arsenic friends. This volition ne'er alteration what a large squad we marque and we are truly arrogant of everything we person achieved together," they told fans.

Karen and Kevin Clifton

The Cliftons are different dancing mates whose matrimony did not outlast their clip connected Strictly.

When Kevin was paired with comedian Susan Calman successful 2017 determination were whispers of backstage hostility betwixt him and woman Karen.

When Kevin and Susan were eliminated, the dancer took the accidental to marque a nationalist apology to Karen.

"When Strictly is connected I’m not the easiest idiosyncratic to unrecorded with. I spell a spot mad. So I’d similar to accidental archetypal of each acknowledgment to my woman for putting up with me," Kevin told big Tess Daly.

The spouses shrugged disconnected the gossip and instantly aft the bid announced that they were heading disconnected connected a associated circuit together.

But conscionable arsenic they prepared to instrumentality their amusement connected the road, Kevin dropped the bombshell that helium and Karen had separated aft 3 years.

The Grimbsy calved prima broke the quality to stunned listeners during an quality connected Chris Evans' Radio 2 meal amusement successful March 2018.

"We’re inactive the champion of friends – we've got a batch of emotion and respect for each other," helium insisted. "I inactive spot Karen beauteous overmuch each day... we're ever throwing ideas astir and putting things unneurotic creatively."

Their associated circuit inactive went up and the brace continued to enactment unneurotic connected Strictly for 2 much years earlier Kevin discontinue to prosecute a vocation successful theatre.

Seann Walsh

Seann sparked 1 of the biggest scandals to ever deed Strictly erstwhile helium was papped smooching his joined dancer spouse Katya Jones pursuing a boozy pub session.

The comedian was swiftly dumped by spouse Rebecca Humphries, who said she had suspected thing was going connected betwixt the pair.

Seann aboriginal apologised for his actions, calling the buss a 'one-off drunken mistake'.

After the heartache, Seann utilized the contention arsenic inspiration for his adjacent drama amusement wherever helium called himself a 'liar, a cheat and a atrocious boyfriend' and poked amusive of Katya's hubby Neil Jones.

At the extremity of his comeback signifier performance, an assemblage subordinate called him a 'f***ing legend' for the kiss.

To which Seann replied: "Where were you 10 months ago? I f***ing needed you."

In aboriginal years, Seann has opened up astir the toll connected his intelligence wellness kiss-gate brought and said helium is inactive 'haunted' by what happened.

"I felt similar I'd destroyed my dreams, who I was and wherefore I got up successful the day. And it's inactive each I deliberation about. What my beingness could person been. What I could person made of myself is gone," helium reflected.

Louise Redknapp

Married mum-of-two Louise Redknapp's quality connected Strictly proved much life-changing than she could person ever imagined.

Prior to the show, the erstwhile Eternal vocalist was thought to beryllium successful 1 of the strongest marriages successful showbiz aft spending 20 blessed years with erstwhile footballer Jamie Redknapp.

However, aft uncovering herself backmost successful the spotlight successful 2016, Louise came to realise that 'doing the mum thing' wasn't each she wanted anymore.

She aboriginal admitted she'd grown bushed of 'being a Stepford wife' and said Strictly made her realise she'd fixed up connected her dreams to absorption connected her household - and she was acceptable for a change.

As the contention raced towards the final, Louise said she started to consciousness 'physically sick' astatine the thought of ne'er dancing again.

After the amusement came to an end, the mum-of-two relaunched her solo vocation and announced she was touring successful philharmonic Cabaret.

Then pursuing months of rumours, the pursuing October Louise confirmed that she and Jamie were surviving isolated and she filed for divorcement successful December 2017.

Daisy Lowe

Starring connected Strictly astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic Louise successful 2016, exemplary Daisy had a blast connected the amusement and rapidly became bully friends with galore of the stars.

While she gained immoderate caller pals, the exemplary mislaid her fellow erstwhile she divided from beau Bradley 'Frankie' Wade' during the competition.

Sources claimed the duo ne'er spent immoderate clip unneurotic arsenic Daisy threw herself into grooming with nonrecreational Aljaz Skorjanec.

She remains bully friends with Alijaz and his woman Janette Manara and continues to talk to Louise Redknapp agelong aft they competed connected the amusement together.

Joe Calzaghe

Before coupling up with Ben Cohen, erstwhile nonrecreational Kristina was archetypal charmed by different hunky sports prima erstwhile producers paired her up with boxer Joe Calzaghe.

Joe divided with his woman Jo-Emma Larvin successful 2009 and went nationalist with his narration with Kristina soon after.

The mates continued to day for different 4 years, earlier yet calling it quits with Kristina claiming 'Joe recovered it hard erstwhile I danced with different men.'

Georgia May Foote

Coronation Street's Georgia was loved-up with chap soap prima Sean Ward erstwhile she signed up to the creation contention backmost successful 2015.

She made it each the mode to the last with Giovanni Pernice with her beau Sean supporting them each measurement of the way.

But soon aft the contention ended, shocking pictures emerged of Georgia and Giovanni kissing connected a travel to Paris arsenic they went nationalist with their feelings for 1 another.

Their narration didn't past a twelvemonth with the mates separating soon earlier the commencement of Strictly 2016 blaming their hectic schedules.

Giovanni Pernice

Italian heartthrob Giovanni Pernice has earned a estimation arsenic thing of a ladies antheral of the show.

He has enjoyed romances with creation spouse Georgia May Foote and Pussycat Dolls prima Ashley Roberts - who wasn't adjacent partnered with him.

He was besides linked to Good Morning Britain's Ranvir Singh lin 2020 and Debbie McGee successful 2017, though the rumours astir some ladies were dismissed.

Strictly couples who are inactive together....

Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton

Documentary shaper Stacey was supported by semipermanent fellow Sam erstwhile she lifted the Glitterball Trophy successful December 2018 alongside creation mentor Kevin Clifton.

Just 3 months later, Stacey's 3 twelvemonth narration with the idiosyncratic trainer was over.

A heartbroken Sam claimed that things betwixt him and the flame-haired presenter had turned sour erstwhile helium noticed messages from Kevin connected his girlfriend's phone, prompting him to dub the nonrecreational a 'snake' and a 'rat.'

A period later, Stacey shared her archetypal loved-up photograph with 'King Kev' arsenic she affectionately calls him, confirming they were present an item.

Four years connected and the brace are inactive unneurotic and past period announced they are expecting their archetypal kid together.

Dianne Buswell and Joe Sugg

Flame-haired Dianne called clip connected her narration with fellow Anthony Quinlan not agelong aft being partnered with YouTube sensation Joe Sugg.

Dianne's chemistry with Joe was said to beryllium undeniable backstage astatine the BBC creation show, with sources saying astatine the time: "Everyone's been discussing however adjacent they'd become. It did not spell unnoticed by Anthony."

Despite the rumours, Dianne and Joe continued to contradict they were thing but creation partners arsenic they progressed each the mode to the last successful 2018.

But the time aft the brace finished successful 2nd spot down Kevin and Stacey, Joe yet shared their blessed quality with the world.

The vlogger gushed connected Instagram: "I whitethorn not person won the glitterball but I've won thing a cardinal times much special."

Rachel Riley and Pasha Kovalev

Countdown brainbox Rachel divided from her assemblage sweetheart and hubby of 15 months aft her clip connected Strictly.

Rachel firmly denied her chemistry with creation spouse Pasha Kovalev was thing to bash with the break-up.

Then months aft confirming her matrimony split, Rachel and Pasha announced that they were an item.

The brace tied the knot successful Las Vegas successful 2019 and person since gone connected to invited 2 children together.

Flavia Cacace and Jimi Mistry

Fan favourite Flavia is different nonrecreational who has had her just stock of links with the alleged Strictly curse.

Flavia started her clip connected the amusement successful a narration with co-star and chap nonrecreational Vincent Simone.

She past dumped Vincent aft being paired with EastEnders heartthrob Matt Di Angelo successful 2007.

Their romance lasted 3 years until 2010 erstwhile producers enactment Flavia with histrion Jimi Mistry erstwhile helium appeared connected the show.

Weeks aft announcing her divided with Matt, Flavia went nationalist with Jimi.

The blessed mates are inactive unneurotic and are accelerated approaching their tenth wedding anniversary.

Ben Cohen and Kristina Rihanoff

Rugby ace Ben was partnered with blonde bombshell Kristina Rihanoff for his stint successful the contention successful 2013.

While the brace didn't marque the final, they recovered thing successful each different and embarked connected a sizzling caller romance.

It came aft the demise of Ben's 11 twelvemonth matrimony to woman Abby Blayney, with whom helium shares 2 daughters.

Proving each their critics wrong, Ben and Kristina person stayed unneurotic and stock five-year-old girl Milena.