Abby joy as division bell tolls for big Ben

RUGBY player Ben Cohen, 46, soft-shoe shuffled alongside me in Sir Bruce Forsyth’s final Strictly back in 2013.

- Vanessa Feltz

His pretty wife Abby, now 47, and their five-year-old twin girls were adorable. Abby cheered on the man she’d loved since she was 16 while he and his Siberian professional partner, Kristina Rihanoff, 47, danced as if their lives depended upon it. I can testify personally that Ben and Abby seemed loved-up. Even though Kristina had just split from boxer Joe Calzaghe and been dubbed a “sex-bomb” by the tabloids, no one suspected the two would run off together and the Cohen marriage would implode.

Scroll forward a dozen years and — despite sharing an eight-year-old daughter, Mila — Ben and Kristina’s union has collapsed amid tales of financial ruin.