Tasha Ghouri has mapped out the slow unraveling of her two-and-a-half-year relationship with Andrew Le Page, saying the first real cracks showed when she joined Strictly Come Dancing. There was no cheating, she says, but the BBC show’s relentless schedule and spotlight turned existing doubts into something she couldn’t ignore. By January 2025, the Love Island couple who once planned marriage and kids had called time on it, despite sharing a home and a renovation project.
The pair met on Love Island in 2022, finished as runners-up, and did what many reality couples rarely manage: they took their TV romance into real life. They moved in together, bought a house, and started planning long term. Publicly, they looked steady. Privately, Ghouri now says she felt a shift long before they made it official.
When the show becomes the stress test
Ghouri points to Strictly as the moment the doubts stuck. Not because of a scandal, but because of what the show demands: 12-hour rehearsals, weekend live shows, constant talking points, and a level of scrutiny that can change a couple’s rhythm overnight. She describes it as the “final nail,” the tipping point rather than the cause.
The so-called “Strictly curse” gets thrown around every autumn for a reason. Intense training builds tight bonds with dance partners, while social media dissects every glance. For couples already under pressure, even small things—missed evenings, new routines, the emotional peaks and lows of live TV—can pile up. Ghouri’s account fits that pattern. She doesn’t accuse anyone of crossing a line. Instead, she frames it as two people growing apart under brighter lights.
Her memoir, Your Superpower, published in April 2025, adds another layer. Ghouri admits she “knew deep down it wasn’t right” even as they discussed a future together. That’s the hardest kind of breakup to parse: no single dramatic event, just the slow realization that plans don’t match feelings.
There was also the Raya issue. In May 2025, on Spooning with Mark Wogan, Ghouri acknowledged she had used the celebrity dating app before the split was public. She said she shouldn’t have done it. Allegations about her presence on Raya first surfaced in January, and reports suggested Le Page didn’t know at the time. Ghouri deleted the app after the backlash, but by then the relationship was already unsteady.
The timeline behind the headlines
Here’s how the end unfolded from the outside and from Ghouri’s account:
- Summer 2022: They meet on Love Island, finish as runners-up, and begin a relationship off-screen.
- 2023: The couple move in together and buy a home, starting renovations and sharing plans for the future.
- Autumn 2024: Strictly rehearsals and live shows begin. Ghouri says this is when doubts harden into something she can’t shake.
- January 2025: The pair announce their split after two and a half years together.
- February 2025: Le Page publicly confirms the breakup, closing the door on rumors of a patch-up.
- April 2025: Ghouri releases Your Superpower, writing that she knew “deep down it wasn’t right” despite talk of marriage and children.
- May 2025: On a podcast, she admits using Raya before the breakup was public and says she shouldn’t have done it; she had already deleted the app.
Their shared house amplified the fallout. Co-owning property is glue in good times and gridlock in bad ones. Renovations, finances, and who stays or sells become practical questions that keep a breakup in the real world long after the public statement is posted. Neither has detailed how they’ll handle the asset, but that process rarely ends quickly.
It’s worth noting who Ghouri is in this picture beyond the romance story. She’s a trained dancer, a model, and a prominent advocate for deaf representation on TV—best known on Love Island for wearing a cochlear implant on screen and talking openly about it. Strictly offered a huge stage. It also came with a microscope. A schedule built for pros is a shock for any celebrity contestant, and it can test even stable relationships.
As for Le Page, he leaves the breakup with a loyal fan base and the clean lines of a public narrative: no infidelity claims, no messy back-and-forth, just a relationship that didn’t survive the pressure. He confirmed the split in February after their January announcement, a move that suggested a joint attempt to keep the noise down.
The “Strictly curse” label sticks because it’s simple and dramatic, but Ghouri’s story is more ordinary than the headline: long hours, new routines, and a spotlight sped up decisions they might have reached anyway. The Raya moment didn’t cause the breakup, she suggests, but it did inflame the public debate and added strain at the worst possible time.
Fans will read her book for the private beats. The bigger takeaway sits in plain sight: reality TV couples aren’t built for ordinary stress, and Strictly isn’t ordinary stress. The show hands you a glittering platform—and then asks you to dance through the pressure that comes with it.