Strictly’s Nick Knowles, 62, reveals fiancée considered ending relationship, 33

Strictly Come Dancing prima Nick Knowles has revealed the distressing crushed his fiancée Katie Dadzie has contemplated breaking disconnected their relationship.

The DIY SOS star, 62, and lingerie concern owner, 33, person been dating for astir 3 years and got engaged successful 2022 aft helium popped the question on holiday successful New Orleans.

However, The Times reported that Katie has ‘occasionally wondered if it’s each worthy it’ owed to to ‘horrible’ racist maltreatment she receives online and comments calling her a ‘goldigger’ connected Instagram.

Nick said: ‘It’s truly unpleasant and unfair.

‘Katie’s a mum of two, she’s super-intelligent, and capable, wrong conscionable 8 months her lingerie marque was stocked by Next. 

‘But you conscionable get radical being decently vile. So you recognize erstwhile she goes, “I don’t cognize if I privation to beryllium astir this”.’

When asked if helium tried to alteration her caput successful those moments, helium replied: ‘No. I understand. But successful the extremity we emotion each different precise much.’

It comes aft Nick’s aboriginal connected Strictly was unclear aft helium injured his limb portion changing his car tyre connected the broadside of a motorway aft it broke down.

Despite skipping immoderate rehearsals, helium was fixed the all-clear by medics and performed with spouse Luba Mushtuck connected Saturday.

The duo made it done to the adjacent circular with Olympic champion swimmer Tom Dean and Nadiya Bychkova becoming the archetypal mates eliminated.

On It Takes Two, Nick said helium was amazed helium hadn’t been fixed the footwear aft the show’s archetypal large radical number.

He continued: ‘To spot idiosyncratic eliminated is truly pugnacious due to the fact that everyone down the scenes has go specified a beauteous household that you person to benignant of commiserate with 1 idiosyncratic and congratulate different astatine the aforesaid time. It’s precise odd.’

Katie has antecedently revealed the toll of grooming connected Nick, revealing helium had go a ‘shell of a man’.

Nick antecedently revealed he had mislaid 2 stone due to ‘really tough’ grooming sessions.

Katie told Closer Magazine: ‘We knew it would beryllium hard enactment but helium is shattered each time erstwhile helium comes back. He’s adjacent capable crawling into the house.’

When asked if she feared the Strictly curse, she replied: ‘He is similar a ammunition of a antheral astatine the infinitesimal – he’s exhausted.

‘I deliberation the past happening connected his caput his immoderate benignant of Strictly curse.’

Nick divorced his 2nd woman Jessica Rose Moor, the parent of his lad Eddie, successful 2017 and dated PR guru Emily Hallinan successful February 2020 earlier making things authoritative with Katie.

The broadcaster’s archetypal matrimony from 1996 to 200 was to Gillian Knowles. The erstwhile mates stock girl Tuesday and lad Charlie.

He is besides a dada to different son, TJ, who helium welcomed portion successful a narration with dancer Paula Beckett.

Katie has children of her ain extracurricular of her romance with Nick and shares her daughters –  Savannah, eight, and Alex, 5 – with a erstwhile partner.

Strictly Come Dancing continues connected Saturday from 6.25pm connected BBC One and iPlayer.

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