It was a lonely scene that had left guests at Birmingham’s Malmaison hotel both surprised and rather sad.
Ola Jordan, one of Strictly’s best-known professional dancers, sat alone at the bar, looking decidedly glum as her husband James partied with his celebrity dance partner Denise van Outen just a few metres away.
It was January 2013, and earlier that night glamorous, Polish-born Ola had danced into the lead with Olympic gymnast Louis Smith during the opening night of the Strictly tour at the nearby National Indoor Arena.
My spies that night confided that not a word had been exchanged between the Jordans, who
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