STRICTLY Come Dancing star Tasha Ghouri has a famous ex who many of her Love Island fans are likely to have forgotten about.
The blonde bombshell will be making her dancing debut on the BBC contest this evening alongside pro partner Aljaz Skorjanec with bookies having already placed her with favourable odds of walking away with the Glitterball Trophy.
Strictly’s Tasha Ghouri had a romance with a TV hunk before finding fame[/caption]
The telly favourite was left wanting Tasha back as her stardom grew[/caption]
Although the Love Island star is very much still loved-up with her co-star boyfriend Andrew Le Page, the TV personality had a stream of celebrity exes before making it as a star in her own right.
As well as having had a highly-publicised romance with former Strictly pro Giovanni Pernice, there was another hunky reality TV star who managed to sweep Tasha off her feet before they called it quits.
Three months before she entered the Majorcan villa for the ITV2 dating series, Tasha was dating Too Hot To Handle star Robert Van Tromp.
Aged 23 at the time, Tasha was besotted with the then-30 year old Netflix hunk before the romance came crashing down.
Robert was understood to be left gutted when Tasha made it big and found love with Andrew on Love Island as he had been hoping to rekindle their relationship in order to give it another go.
A source told the Mail Online in 2022: “Robert is gutted after seeing Tasha on Love Island.
“She ticks all his boxes and he had hoped to reconnect with her after regretting their breakup.
“Tasha is the one that got away and he believes he let a gem go, watching her on the show this summer won’t be easy for him.”
Robert found fame on the Netflix reality series a year before Tasha overtook his celebrity status on Love Island.
The duo met on a dating app in October 2021 just one month after Robert split from fellow Netflix star Christina Carmela.
Tasha and Andrew have been together for just over two years having become one of Love Island’s biggest success stories.
But Tasha recently confessed that she isn’t worried about the Strictly curse after insisting that no pro was better than her current beau.
Speaking ahead of her first weekend on the show, Tasha told us: “Andrew, to me, is the hottest man on this whole planet. I look at him and I’m like: ‘Yeah, that’s my man!’
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Tasha Ghouri and Aljaž Škorjanec
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“Me and Andrew trust each other 100 per cent.
“It’s not a make-or-break for us. We’re going to breeze through this because we’re going to marry each other one day, you know?
“It doesn’t bother us at all. We didn’t have a discussion about ‘the Strictly curse’ because we trust each other.
“It doesn’t play on our mind.”
Tasha recently admitted she wasn’t worried about the Strictly curse[/caption]
So did Andrew worry when he discovered his girl been paired with returning pro Aljaz Skorjanec, the recently christened “bad boy” of Strictly?
Tasha said: “He has no worries at all. If anything, he was super-happy and could see the great partnership we had. He came to rehearsals the other day and watched for a little bit.
“Aljaz taught Andrew some dance moves, which was funny.
“Aljaz is so happy with his wife [Janette Manrara] and we went on a double date last night, and had a lovely dinner with their beautiful daughter, Lyra. Andrew’s been so supportive through it all.”
Tasha is loved-up with Andrew[/caption]
