Strictly, it was non-stop really.They didn't want us to be together, they wanted him and his other [dance] partner to be together and that was really hard."The "Strictly curse" refers to the impact that close relationships formed on the show between dance partners can have on their relationships with their real-life romantic partners.The burns survivor also confessed that, before getting together with her beau, she hadn't been pursued by paparazzi, making the sudden attention a little overwhelming."I didn't know anything to do with the press," she added."Having to deal with that by myself was really tricky because he was just non-stop working and everyone was rooting for him and his partner to be together and no-one was rooting for me and him," she lamented, adding: "It was very sad."She tried not to take the trolling to heart, reasoning that some people may have simply been "on a power trip" when they delivered their taunts.However, it was challenging to see AJ, who worked on Strictly between 2016 and 2019, continuously being paired with a string of glamorous stars.During his time on the show, he has been professionally partnered with Olympic artistic gymnast Claudia Fragapane, musical star Mollie King of the Saturdays, Paralympic athlete Lauren Steadman and Youtuber Saffron Barker.Meanwhile, troubled Abbie was dealing with constant criticism due to their relationship playing out in the public eye.After she suffered a harrowing accident in 2021, which left her with third-degree burns all over her face and body, she realised that AJ was in the relationship for the long haul.After her imitation of a Tiktok hack to create a vase went horribly wrong, and her attempt to melt a glass bottle caused an explosion, she was rushed
