Strictly's Montell Douglas shares real reason she is single after boyfriend split

Former Olympian turned Strictly prima divided from her fellow astir 9 months ago, but the celeb insists she won't beryllium affected by the show's alleged 'curse' owed to 1 peculiar reason

Gladiator prima Montell Douglas is azygous and 'very overmuch not mingling'.

The BBC star and erstwhile British grounds holder for the 100 metres, scored a not-so-impressive 28 points connected past week's occurrence of Strictly for her Tango to One Night Only from the deed movie Dream Girls. The two-point alteration from her erstwhile performance, with pro spouse Johannes Radebe, near the duo dangerously adjacent to facing elimination

They volition purpose to fertile higher successful the leaderboard this week for the show's first-ever Icons taxable - wherever they're slated to execute the Viennese Waltz to SZA's Nobody Gets Me. Montell, 38, won't beryllium wasting precious rehearsal clip chasing aft immoderate lovers though, aft confirming she's choosing to enactment single.

The Team GB sprinter divided with her fellow astir 9 months ago, and says there's nary interest of the Strictly 'curse' affecting her emotion life. "I americium azygous and precise overmuch not mingling due to the fact that I don't person the time," she said, according to the Sun. "There are truthful galore things to deliberation astir with dancing."

Montell went connected to picture her spouse Johannes arsenic the lone antheral successful her life, adding: "He ticks each container that I could privation anyway... I don't cognize if I person a sexy broadside — I americium rather awkward successful myself but I americium bubbly and I similar to person a bully time. I emotion to gag around. I person large banter with Johannes truthful that is the sexy broadside if determination was 1 there."

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On apical of gruelling grooming and play performances, Montell has been dealing with a debilitating wellness condition astir her full life. She precocious opened up astir experiencing dense and irregular periods that were accompanied with symptom truthful terrible she would sometimes person to miss grooming sessions. In her Olympian days, she would person to instrumentality beardown prescribed painkillers to effort and quell the agony.

However, a fewer years ago, Montell didn't instrumentality the tablets aboriginal capable - and erstwhile the symptom kicked in, she ended up calling an ambulance and was enactment connected a drip successful hospital. "That hospitalisation for maine was a benignant of wake-up call," she said successful an interrogation with The Irish News. "My assemblage conscionable started convulsing, and I was astir passing out, due to the fact that the symptom was truthful intense. I was overheating due to the fact that of the hormones – my assemblage couldn't power its temperature, and that successful crook made maine dehydrated. The symptom was successful waves, coming successful similar contractions."

Strictly Come Dancing airs each Saturday connected BBC One.

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