Strictly's Nadiya Bychkova says 'we are not friends' after Kai Widdrington split

Strictly Come Dancing pro Nadiya Bychkova has revealed things are inactive frosty betwixt her and ex Kai Widdrington aft admitting: "We are not friends". The erstwhile Strictly mates began dating successful 2022 and divided earlier this year.

Asked astir the interruption up and if they were friends. Nadiya said: "We enactment unneurotic but we are not friends and that’s ok. 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." She declined to remark further connected their interruption up. The erstwhile couple, who met connected the amusement successful 2021, person not antecedently spoken astir their divided and are expected to beryllium dancing connected the amusement unneurotic again successful the coming months of the series.

Nadiya, 35, was speaking astatine the Mirror's Pride of Britain awards which she said was "one of her favourite nights of the year". She attended the bash with her celeb spouse from the bid this year, Olympian Tom Dean, on with different stars from the show. Nadiya and Tom were this archetypal mates to beryllium voted disconnected the bid this year. Nadiya said: "It’s ne'er bully to permission early. Tom and I person had truthful overmuch enactment from radical and I get the feeling that the viewers wanted to spot what helium was susceptible of and truthful did I. Someone had to spell and it’s conscionable a shame it was Tom."

"We are going to support dancing though. I americium going to thatch him a salsa with immoderate large lifts. Not for TV, conscionable truthful helium tin spot helium tin beryllium brilliant." Asked who would triumph the Glitterball connected the BBC dancing amusement this year, she added: "There is truthful overmuch endowment this twelvemonth and the modular is truthful precocious it’s incredible. I emotion the amusement truthful overmuch and it’s large to person a beforehand enactment spot each weekend. I person nary thought who is going to triumph but I cognize we are successful a superb fewer months of dancing."

Nadiya and Kai divided successful the Summer conscionable six months aft they had posed for photos successful a glossy mag shoot. In December 2023 Kai had said: "I conscionable knew Nadiya was The One. She's the astir beauteous pistillate I’ve ever seen, but the existent quality is not conscionable what you spot connected the extracurricular – it’s the idiosyncratic connected the wrong I fell successful emotion with. People often misjudge her and conscionable spot a stunning blonde girl, but she’s much than that. She’s the kindest idiosyncratic I’ve ever met successful my full life, and the astir astonishing mother."

Nadiya shares seven-year-old girl Mila with her erstwhile fiancé, Slovenian footballer Matija Skarabot. Her narration with Kai was her archetypal romance since she divided from the begetter of her child. In the mag interrogation successful December she said: "When you’re a mum, you don’t leap into a narration saying: 'I'm successful love,' and that’s it. It's a large work and I'm precise protective of my daughter."

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