Tasha Ghouri opens up on 'toughest years' of her life in heartbreaking admission

Love Island turned Strictly prima Tasha Ghouri, 26, has candidly opened up connected the 'toughest years' of her beingness and however she navigated schoolhouse arsenic a deaf pupil successful the noughties

Tasha Ghouri's beingness hasn't ever been filled with glitz and glam.

The Love Island star, 26, slipped from golden past week pursuing her Tango to Florence + The Machine's smash deed Dog Days Are Over. The hauntingly stunning regular scored the celeb and her pro dancing spouse Aljaž Škorjanec a respectable 34 points - ranking them 3rd connected the Strictly person board.

Since, the duo person been perfecting their Samba to I Like To Move It Move It by Reel 2 Real for the show's iconic Halloween Week. But, volition it beryllium capable to bump them backmost to the apical of the league tables?

While gruelling rehearsals and long-hours grooming mightiness instrumentality its toll connected astir contestants, Tasha has built up an awesome resilience from her clip successful secondary school. The world TV star, who was diagnosed deaf astatine commencement and wears a cochlear implant, has candidly opened up astir increasing up with her disablement - and however being deaf has go her 'superpower'.

In an interrogation with Grace Beverley, Tasha said: "Teenage years were decidedly the toughest years of my life. It was benignant of much due to the fact that erstwhile you're a teen you're figuring retired who you are arsenic a person, you're going done hormones etc - and it's benignant of similar that clip erstwhile I was trying to fig retired who I was arsenic a person, but I was the lone deaf pupil successful my school. That added unit arsenic I was ever comparing successful specified a antagonistic mode and I was truthful horrible to myself.

"I didn't emotion myself. I had nary aforesaid love. I had nary aforesaid confidence. It wasn't until I really near schoolhouse that's erstwhile I really started to summation a small spot of confidence. [Getting into the] creation manufacture massively helped maine with that, but done schoolhouse it was tough."

Tasha added that she was 'lucky enough' to person a supportive relationship and wasn't 'horribly bullied' successful existent life, adjacent though she did get cyber bullied. But adjacent with a beardown person circle, Tasha struggled to excel successful her exams owed to the schoolhouse not providing her with the indispensable magnitude of support.

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"I was benignant of pushed to the sides and my grades weren't large due to the fact that I was deaf benignant of thing," she explained. "There wasn't capable awareness. I would often get seated astatine the backmost of the people wherever I needed to beryllium astatine the beforehand truthful I could articulator read. Teachers would constitute connected the achromatic committee but crook distant from maine truthful I would miss retired connected notes and important information. There were times wherever I would conscionable spell successful my chamber and conscionable outcry for hours."

Reflecting connected her adolescence, Tasha says she wishes she weren't truthful harsh connected herself and embraced her differences. "With societal media theres truthful overmuch unit to look and beryllium cleanable each the time... but instrumentality your time. Confidence doesn't travel successful a day," she added. After becoming Love Island's archetypal decease contestant, Tasha has continued to presumption her disablement arsenic a 'superpower' and uses her level to dispersed consciousness - adjacent featuring successful an advert promoting motion language.

Strictly Come Dancing airs each Saturday connected BBC One.

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