Strictly Come Dancing golden couple ‘had to be separated’ after nasty break up

Things look to person turned frosty for Strictly Come Dancing’s erstwhile aureate couple, Kai Widdrington and Nadiya Bychkova. 

The nonrecreational dancers archetypal met connected the fashionable BBC amusement successful 2021, during which Kai, 29, danced with AJ Odudu and Nadiya, 34, was paired with Dan Walker.

After Nadiya split from ex-fiancé and footballer Matija Škarabot, with whom she shares a daughter, the pro dancers grew adjacent and are rumoured to person started dating successful January 2022. 

Opening up connected however it was ‘magic’ erstwhile they met, Nadiya explained: ‘We met, obviously, arsenic Kai joined Strictly. We became friends, and past magic happened! Can’t assistance it.’

While their narration looked picture-perfect from the outside, speculation began brewing earlier this year, pursuing solo appearances and cryptic Instagram posts, that the Ukrainian and English dancing duo had grown apart. 

By mid-July, pursuing Strictly’s Behind the Magic tour, a root revealed the brace had parted ways: ‘It’s heartbreaking’, they said. ‘Kai and Nadiya seemed similar the astir cleanable mates and person been so, truthful blissfully successful love.’ 

‘But the pressures of touring – being successful each other’s abstraction 24/7, and the accent of performing a sell-out amusement yet took its toll.’

Despite claims Kai and Nadiya remained ‘incredibly close’, a caller quality astatine the National Television Awards earlier this week seems to beryllium otherwise. 

Both attended the prestigious lawsuit connected Thursday night, with Nadiya seen walking the carpet successful an eye-catching pinkish formal implicit with a agelong train. 

Kai, meanwhile, walked the carpet with his erstwhile creation spouse and broadcaster Angela Rippon, 79, successful a dapper suit with a bow tie. 

However, metro.co.uk tin corroborate that the erstwhile mates did not interact connected the carpet, nor did they locomotion it astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic Nadiya, was 1 of the past to arrive. 

Speaking to the MailOnline, the frosty attraction continued wrong the O2, with an onlooker revealing: ‘When the brace got wrong the O2, they gave each different a precise wide berth.’ 

‘Organisers had ensured determination would beryllium nary awkward camera shots by keeping the frosty brace isolated from each other.’

While it remains unclear what caused the erstwhile couple’s heartbreaking split, caller reports assertion it whitethorn person travel aft quality Kai volition not beryllium dancing with a personage spouse successful the upcoming play of Strictly, owed to aerial tonight. 

He told MailOnline astatine the TV awards: ‘Everyone wants to get a celeb, but unluckily it wasn’t my clip this year. Hopefully, I volition get 1 adjacent year. Unfortunately, there’s 9 antheral celebs and six pistillate celebs.’

Strictly returns this play aft months of contention pursuing a BBC investigation into the programme.

The contention came nether occurrence earlier this year following a bullying scandal, successful which Amanda Abbington, 50, claimed her acquisition connected the series near her with PTSD aft moving with Giovanni Pernice.

Giovanni – who has since near the amusement – denied the allegations his attack was ‘unnecessary, abusive, cruel and mean’.

Graziano Di Prima also near the amusement aft his personage partner Zara McDermott claimed helium kicked during rehearsals.

While BBC has yet to merchandise the findings of its three-month probe into the matter, it has announced new guidelines for this year’s contestants, including that a chaperone indispensable beryllium contiguous astatine each rehearsals.

Strictly Come Dancing airs astatine 7.20 p.m. connected September 14, connected BBC One and iPlayer.

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