DANCING on Ice star Carlotta Edwards’ marriage rift over Maura Higgins came as a shock to her family, a source has revealed.
Carlotta and Alex Demetriou are on a time-out after he grew close to the Love Island beauty, his partner for the last series.
The two pro dancers, married for four years, had spent Christmas with Carlotta’s parents Nancy and Peter in Canada a few weeks before he started dancing with Maura on the ITV show.
A source said of the visit: “Everything had seemed fine and her family thought they were having a good time. “Now they think they must have been mistaken. "No one in her family suspected anything was up between them, so obviously this has all been quite a shock.” Carlotta, 30, who has taken off her wedding ring, is.
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