Strictly pros Kai and Nadiya set for show reunion after split

Strictly's pros Kai Widdrington and Nadiya Bychkova will reunite for Strictly

Strictly Come Dancing stars Kai Widdrington and fellow dancer Nadiya Bychkova. (Getty)
Strictly Come Dancing stars Kai Widdrington and fellow dancer Nadiya Bychkova. (Getty)

Strictly's pros Kai Widdrington and Nadiya Bychkova fell in love on the dancefloor but now they have called time on their two-year romance.

Widdrington and Bychkova's split is the latest drama to hit Strictly Come Dancing ahead of the 2024 series. It is only a matter of months before the exes will be reunited on the BBC show once again.

On and off the dancefloor, they had incredible chemistry and they both said how much they loved dancing with each other. They fell in love in 2022 and announced their relationship to the world, however just two years later they have reached the end of their time together.

It's been reported they split after the end of their tour Behind The Magic came to an end in June. We take a look at their upcoming Strictly reunion after they marked the "end of a chapter" together, their tour, hopes of marriage and babies as well as Widdrington's bond with Bychkova's daughter Mila.

Strictly Come Dancing professional dancers Nadiya Bychkova and Kai Widdrington during rehearsals for their tour. (Getty)
Strictly Come Dancing professional dancers Nadiya Bychkova and Kai Widdrington during rehearsals for their tour. (Getty)

News of their split may have only hit headlines now but the couple will be reunited to get started working on the next series of Strictly. Strictly rehearsals for the professional dancers are believed to be starting next week.

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The BBC show will return to our screens in the autumn, with no official start date announced yet but it always falls in the middle or second half of September and will run until December. It is not known whether they will have celebrity partners yet. They will however continue to dance together in the group numbers.

This isn't unheard of on Strictly though. Strictly pros have fallen in love before and their relationships haven't worked out but they have put on a united front on the show.

Exes Katya and Neil Jones still both appear on the dance show, having split in August 2019. Their marriage broke down in the wake of kissgate where Katya was caught kissing her celebrity partner Seann Walsh outside a pub.

Before them, the longest-serving Strictly pro Karen Hauer was married to fellow pro Kevin Clifton. Their marriage played out on Strictly Come Dancing but when they split in 2018, they continued to dance together in group dances on the show. Clifton departed the show in 2019, having met his current partner Stacey Dooley in 2018 on Strictly and they have since had a baby girl.

Just weeks ago, the 30 June marked the end of a chapter for Widdrington and Bychkova when they wrapped up their tour Behind The Magic. It was their debut tour together and they headed off around the UK in June. Behind The Magic promised to give "a glimpse into the real life couple’s fairytale romance."

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Widdrington wrote: "Well that’s a wrap, end of another chapter, hope you all enjoyed behind the magic as much as we enjoyed bringing it to you. For us the most powerful part is always the team around us, we had the most exceptional team this year from our dancers to our tour management to all of the guys behind the stage, and of course we had you guys, our incredible audience.

"Thank you for supporting us all along our journey, it’s been our dream to take this on tour as I told you and the show whatever you doing in life shoot the stars and dream big dream huge. you can achieve anything you can think of. Looking forward to seeing you all on strictly."

In a separate post, Bychkova wrote on her Instagram: "And that’s it… our final performance of Behind The Magic..but what a special month it has been with some incredible memories which will stay with me forever. When we first came up with the idea, we wanted to create something special, accessible and magical and the response has been out of this world."

Also in her post, she gave a shoutout to her dancing partner and she gushed about how dancing together made her feel. She said: "Thank you to my partner in crime @kaiwidd it’s always magical when we dance together and it feels like the world around us stops for that moment."

Nadiya Bychkova and Kai Widdrington had hopes of marriage. (Getty)
Nadiya Bychkova and Kai Widdrington had hopes of marriage. (Getty)

Widdrington and Bychkova set their hearts on getting married and building a family together. In their first joint photoshoot, the couple declared their love for each other in February earlier this year and hopes for the future. "Marriage is important to me," Bychkova told OK! magazine.

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Widdrington echoed Bychkova's hopes and he said he would love to become a dad too. "It’s a future I want, too, absolutely," he said. "I would love to be a dad and one day be a husband and have a family. Ultimately, we’re not trying to start a family right now, but we are trying to create that family feeling among us and that’s important."

During their whirlwind romance, Widdrington built a sweet bond with Bychkova's daughter Mila. The professional dancer spoke about meeting Mila for the first time earlier this year and he revealed she gave him a heartwarming nickname.

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He said on Loose Women: "It was very important that we get it right. First of all when we got together, we wanted to make sure that we want to be together and it's all going to go well.

"After meeting her, she is one of the cleverest little girls I have ever met. She speaks four languages. She has a new nickname for me - I remember last time I was on the show, it was Kai Lemon Pie, but now it's Kai Cotton Candy Pie for 2024."

Widdrington and Bychkova's representatives didn't have anything to add when approached by Yahoo for comment.