How Strictly’s Popular Dancers have Ended up In Debt For viewers tuning into BBC’s megahit Strictly Come Dancing, they would be right in assuming that its stars should be making a significant fortune. Whether it be the determined hours of training, or being an on-screen fixture for weeks on end, the show’s professional dancers have assisted make the series a captivating watch throughout the fall months. However, while it has been presumed that Strictly experts must make a pretty cent, and years of success, through their time on the program, for a lot of it’s an entirely different story. Pros who have bid goodbye to the Strictly dancefloor in the last few years have shared their battles with piling financial obligations and money woes, with some even facing the possibility of losing their homes. Recently, Ben Cohen and Kristina Rihanoff end up being the newest stars to be hit by the infamous ‘Strictly curse’ after their 12-year love ended in heartbreak. MailOnline then revealed it was the severe monetary troubles they had actually just recently experienced are believed to have actually been behind their split. MailOnline peels back the glitter behind Strictly stars’ paychecks to reveal the truth about how for numerous, the cash stops as quickly as the ballroom lights go dark … Kristina Rihanoff How Strictly’s popular dancers have wound up in debt – as Kristina Rihanoff’s monetary difficulties are blamed for split from Ben Cohen (imagined on the show in 2013) Kristina formerly appeared on Strictly as a professional from 2008 to 2015, making headings when she began a love with her star partner Ben Cohen. However, in 2015, the couple shared fears that they might lose their home after being struck by cash concerns, with Ben laying bare their monetary problems in court. The extent of the couple’s struggles were laid bare in unusual circumstances – throughout a court appearance last September when Kristina, 47, was caught driving without insurance coverage. Giving evidence during the case, England World Cup winning rugby star Ben, 46, confessed he had made a mess of the handling of their cars and truck insurance plan and told how he was ‘battling to conserve his relationship and home’. A good friend of the couple told the Mail he said: ‘The previous 6 months have actually been hell for them and it has actually torn the love they had apart. For the sake of their household, they have actually chosen to move forward as separate individuals. ‘Those near them who know them as a couple had actually hoped they would be able to work things out but for now it’s over and it appears like there’s no going back.’ The couple were entrusted crippling debts after they tilled every penny they had into a yoga studio which plunged into crisis throughout the Covid pandemic. In a tortuously frank admission Ben told the court: ‘I get up every day and I combat not to lose whatever – to lose my cars and trucks and my home and my relationship. I’m so overdrawn.’ Last year the couple shared worries that they might lose their home after being struck by money issues, with Ben laying bare their financial woes in court (visualized in 2021) When questioned about the stress on his and Kristina’s relationship, he said: ‘We’re still living together. We’re in it financially. ‘We stay in business together so the problem is that we opened business before Covid and we got the worst intensities of it and in all honestly this is simply another problem for me to handle. ‘I’ve got credit cards that are