Strictly’s Nadiya Bychkova bluntly confirms she’s ‘not friends’ with Kai Widdrington

Strictly Come Dancing prima Nadiya Bychkova has made a blunt admittance astir her narration with Kai Widdrington aft the erstwhile mates split.

In April 2022, the 2 nonrecreational dancers – some fan-favourites connected the BBC bid – confirmed that they were dating aft months of speculation.

As the months went by, Nadiya, 35, and Kai, 29, couldn’t person looked much loved up, with the erstwhile saying that ‘magic happened’ arsenic romance blossomed betwixt them aft they met connected the show.

Earlier this twelvemonth it emerged that they had gone their abstracted ways, with a study claiming that they decided to ‘call it quits’ mutually aft they experienced a ‘tough fewer weeks’ with their highly engaged schedules.

At the time, it was said that they remained ‘incredibly close’, and they were ‘determined their divided volition not person immoderate interaction connected the adjacent bid of Strictly’.

However, according to Nadiya, they are present not arsenic adjacent arsenic they erstwhile were.

Last night, she attended the Pride of Britain Awards, wherever she addressed wherever she and Kai present basal successful their relationship.

‘We enactment unneurotic but we are not friends and that’s OK,’ she told the Daily Mirror astatine The Grosvenor House Hotel successful London.

‘One happening I tin archer you is that erstwhile you spot maine dancing with him it volition beryllium astonishing due to the fact that I’m a professional.’

On this year’s bid of Strictly, Nadiya was paired up with Olympic swimmer Tom Dean, 24, portion Kai didn’t person a personage partner.

Despite the vigor that helium brought to the dancefloor, Tom became the archetypal contestant to beryllium eliminated, erstwhile it was decided by the judges’ ballot pursuing the dance-off that Toyah Willcox and Neil Jones would stay successful the competition.

Nadiya was devastated by their aboriginal exit, having not had a personage spouse past twelvemonth connected the programme.

Following their elimination, she initially posted a representation of them unneurotic connected Instagram, penning successful her caption: ‘I truly admit each the messages but I’m not acceptable to speech astir what happened contiguous conscionable yet. 🙏🏼🤍.’

In her adjacent post, she thanked Strictly fans for their ‘amazing messages’, writing: ‘Tom had truthful overmuch to springiness and I had truthful overmuch I wanted to thatch him. His betterment successful the past 2 weeks has been unthinkable and I think, really I know, helium could person go a superb dancer.’

She continued: ‘I’m devastated that you won’t get to spot that. My 3-time Olympic Champion was an astonishing pupil and is simply a fantastic gentleman. He volition spell connected to bigger and amended things and I cognize this twelvemonth helium could person had a superb Strictly story.

‘I emotion this amusement and I privation to privation the different couples each the champion and I’m definite it’s going to beryllium a large series. Thank you for your kindness.💫.’

Meanwhile, Kai precocious addressed not having a personage spouse this year, telling the Daily Star: ‘Everyone wants to get a celebrity. Unfortunately it wasn’t my clip this series.

‘Two boys couldn’t person 1 this bid and sadly I americium 1 of them. Some of america don’t get partners and that’s the mode it is.’

Strictly Come Dancing returns connected Saturday astatine 6.25pm connected BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

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