Inside Strictly star JB Gill's family farm life with pro football player son

JB Gill has to flit betwixt muddy wellies and sequins portion starring connected Strictly Come Dancing, but the JLS vocalist is supported by his incredibly talented family

JB Gill changeable to fame connected X Factor successful 2008 arsenic one-third of the beloved lad set JLS.

But though helium is commanding the spotlight erstwhile much connected Strictly Come Dancing alongside pro spouse Amy Dowden, the 36-year-old maintains that 'family man' is, successful fact, his astir important role. JB lives connected a workplace successful Sevenoaks, Kent, with his woman Chloe and 2 kids - and this is the centre of his world.

"Family is everything to me," helium precocious told the BBC. "Chiara has already made cards and small tokens for maine to enactment successful my dressing country for the unrecorded shows and past my woman volition beryllium determination each azygous week for arsenic agelong arsenic I’m successful it."

But who is the Gill family? Here is everything you request to know...

Who is JB Gill's woman Chloe?

JB met woman Chloe erstwhile she was moving arsenic a backmost up dancer for JLS, and they instantly deed it off. They mates joined successful 2014 connected the Isle of Bute successful Scotland. Chloe has been dancing since the property of three, and professionally since she was 18, truthful JB has been seeking proposal from his woman of 10 years portion connected Strictly.

Speaking to the Mail Online up of the contention starting, JB admitted: "To beryllium honest, I astir apt person the champion woman that you could have, for immoderate contestant doing this show, due to the fact that she comes from that world.

"And though she wasn't a ballroom dancer, we some recognize what goes into it. We cognize that it's not casual and it's going to beryllium difficult. She gets it, she's been connected tours herself. She's evidently had to spouse with different people, that's conscionable portion of the world. So she's precise excited for me. "

Who are JB Gill's kids?

JB and Chloe person 2 children unneurotic - Ace, nine, and Chiara, 5 - and the couple's showbiz talents has decidedly been passed down successful their genes. Young Ace has starred successful BBC play Chloe successful 2022, and due to the fact that of Chiara’s large property she was besides formed successful the show.

JB said: "Ace was doing a self-tape and Chiara was like: 'I request to bash it arsenic well.' She conscionable sat successful the background, playing with her toys, and we had to nonstop it due to the fact that we didn't person different one. The accumulation squad saw it and were like: 'She's amazing. Can we person her, too?'"

Ace besides appeared successful deed Grantchester successful 2014, and is signed up to a exemplary agency. But if that wasn’t capable the nine-year-old is besides a footy player, and is presently an U10 academy subordinate astatine Tottenham Hotspur Academy. And portion that is each boy’s imagination it does halt him watching his dada unrecorded connected Strictly. JB told the BBC: “Ace wants to ticker each the shows unrecorded but helium has shot the pursuing greeting truthful we’ll ticker with the kids aft shot connected Sunday.”

Why does JB Gill and his household unrecorded connected a farm?

As mentioned, JB Gill lives connected a 13-acre workplace successful Sevenoaks, Kent, which is simply a acold outcry from the glitz and glamour of ballroom dancing. However, up of the amusement the crippled dancer told the BBC:" "From muddy wellies connected the fields of my workplace to sequins and Glitterballs - I’m present to clasp it all!"

While the vocalist was calved successful Croydon, South London, helium explained the Farmer's Guardian that spending clip successful Antigua arsenic a kid formed his emotion of quality and farming. "I grew up successful the city, but I was fortunate that I did person entree [to the outdoors] and my parents precise overmuch felt it was important," helium says.

"My formative years were spent successful the Caribbean and determination is decidedly that proximity to wherever your nutrient comes from and much of a agrarian manner done that land mentality."

The family's workplace produces grant winning KellyBronze turkeys and free-range Tamworth pork, and JB has besides opened the doors of the workplace for television, and enabled him to big CBBC amusement Down On The Farm.

JB antecedently explained that helium wanted to determination to a workplace for his kids. "I’d often heard it said that increasing up connected a workplace is 2nd to none," helium said. “It was 1 of the reasons wherefore I wanted my ain young household to found our roots successful the countryside, contempt having spent astir of my beingness surviving successful a city.”