How Strictly’s Popular Dancers have Wound Up In Debt For audiences tuning into BBC’s megahit Strictly Come Dancing, they would be right in assuming that its stars must be making a hefty fortune. Whether it be the determined hours of training, or being an on-screen component for weeks on end, the program’s expert dancers have helped make the series a fascinating watch throughout the autumn months. However, while it has actually been presumed that Strictly specialists need to make a quite penny, and years of success, through their time on the show, for many it’s a completely different story. Pros who have actually bid goodbye to the Strictly dancefloor recently have actually shared their battles with piling debts and cash woes, with some even dealing with the prospect of losing their homes. Recently, Ben Cohen and Kristina Rihanoff become the current stars to be hit by the infamous ‘Strictly curse’ after their 12-year love ended in heartbreak. MailOnline then revealed it was the serious monetary problems they had actually just recently experienced are thought to have actually been behind their split. MailOnline peels back the glitter behind Strictly stars’ paychecks to expose the reality about how for lots of, the cash stops as soon as the ballroom lights go dark … Kristina Rihanoff How Strictly’s popular dancers have actually wound up in debt – as Kristina Rihanoff’s financial problems are blamed for split from Ben Cohen (pictured on the show in 2013) Kristina formerly appeared on Strictly as a professional from 2008 to 2015, making headings when she started a love with her celeb partner Ben Cohen. However, in 2015, the couple shared fears that they might lose their home after being hit by cash issues, with Ben laying bare their monetary woes in court. The level of the couple’s battles were laid bare in unusual scenarios – throughout a court look last September when Kristina, 47, was caught driving without insurance coverage. Giving proof throughout the case, England World Cup winning rugby star Ben, 46, admitted he had mishandled the handling of their automobile insurance policy and informed how he was ‘fighting to conserve his relationship and home’. A friend of the couple told the Mail he stated: ‘The past six months have been hell for them and it has actually torn the love they had apart. For the sake of their household, they have picked to go forward as separate individuals. ‘Those close to them who understand them as a couple had actually hoped they would be able to work things out but for now it’s over and it looks like there’s no going back.’ The couple were entrusted crippling debts after they tilled every cent 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 fight not to lose everything – to lose my cars and my house and my relationship. I’m so overdrawn.’ Last year the couple shared fears that they might lose their home after being hit by cash problems, with Ben laying bare their financial problems in court (envisioned in 2021) When questioned about the strains on his and Kristina’s relationship, he said: ‘We’re still living together. We’re in it economically. ‘We’re in business together so the problem is that we opened the organization before Covid and we got the worst seriousness of it and in all honestly this is just another problem for me to deal with. ‘I’ve got charge card that are overdrawn. I’m overdrawn in both accounts. We have actually got