Strictly Come Dancing winner Rose Ayling-Ellis has separated from her partner of seven years, Sam Arnold. Having competed on the 2013 series with partner James Jordan, Vanessa says she understands how the environment tests relationships. Remarking that the curse has "a kind of grim, rather sinister inevitability about it", she said: "Picture the scene: One minute you’re lying in bed next to your boring old partner in your winceyette pyjamas, the next you’re spray-tanned, sprinkled with sequins and pressing against a gorgeous professional dancer with the body of an athlete.