


The announcement took everyone by surprise, with a friend of the 38-year-old dancer saying that she had ‘told no one’ aside from Ben himself and her mother, Larisa. In what must surely be the ultimate car crash conclusion to a reality television romance, she tearfully revealed, in scenes shown last night, that she discovered over Christmas that she is pregnant by Cohen, her former dance partner on the BBC show. Kristina Rihanoff, the shameless star of Strictly Come Dancing, now seeking stardom of a lower variety by appearing in the current series of Celebrity Big Brother, has this week revealed she’s ‘almost three months’ pregnant by former rugby player Ben Cohen. How best to announce the happy news of a pregnancy with your ‘boyfriend’ - given the awkward circumstances that you met him on a TV show, spent months denying the romance and, oh yes, he is still married to someone else?īy declaring the joyous event on air in the company of a ragbag collection of D-list show-offs and cast-offs whom you have known for precisely three days? Kristina Rihanoff, the shameless star of Strictly Come Dancing
