FORMER Strictly Come Dancing star Ola Jordan has revealed that she took her husband James from another woman.
The 34-year-old star dished all, admitting that her now spouse and fellow professional dancer was already in a relationship with someone else when they first met.
Polish beauty Ola ended up taking James away from his girlfriend and rival dancer after she encountered him in Blackpool back in 1999.
She made the revelation in her book Strictly Ola: My Story in which she described James as “very good-looking” with “slicked-back black hair and piercing blue eyes”.
Ola - who was only 17 at the time - went on to recount: “His partner was Polish, and when I watched them dance together I was filled with just one thought, ‘I want to have a partner like that one day'.
“At one point during the competition I actually got introduced to this tall, dark stranger, very fleetingly. ‘Hello’, he smiled. And then he was gone.”
She wrote that the brief encounter “stuck in my mind” and that he was “well out of my league”.
However, it appears that they were destined to be together after she got a phone call from James’ dancer, who she learnt was also his girlfriend, asking if Ola was available to a trial with him.
Both James and his girlfriend and professional partner were both looking for other dancers to work with at the time hence the call to Ola.
Ola said that she did not have any romantic plans when she went for the trial with James and it seems that two hit it off as dancing duo.
“It didn’t bother me that he had a girlfriend. I was four-and-a-half years younger than James and never considered for one moment that he could possibly be interested in a girl like me, not in that way,” she explained in the book.
The dancer continued: “He was spoken for and was very renowned in the dance world, and I felt young and inexperienced by comparison.
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"Nevertheless, when I saw James walk through arrivals at the airport my heart skipped a beat.”
In Strictly Ola: My Story she says that as she and James gradually grew closer as they trained and she lived in a shared house in Kent near to where he lived with his parents.
Over time James’ relationship with his girlfriend grew more tense and they eventually split up with the outspoken star turning up for rehearsals in floods of tears after revealing he’d broken up with her.
Nevertheless it took a little bit of time before Ola and James finally got together and it was only on a trip to Hong Kong that they finally admitted their feelings to each other.
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They ended up tying the knot in 2003 and have been happily married ever since. Both have appeared on Strictly Come Dancing and Ola left in 2015 after nine years on the programme.
She is currently in the Australian jungle for I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! with a roster of stars including Carol Vorderman, Emmerdale actor Adam Thomas and model Lisa Snowdon.
So far Ola has survived the first elimination which saw DJ Danny Baker booted off I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!
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