When AJ Pritchard left his role as a professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing to much fanfare back in 2020, he boasted that he was waltzing off to follow his showbiz dreams.
And given that he was super popular with young viewers and his departure came as an unwelcome surprise to bosses at the BBC One dance show, this didn’t appear an unreasonable ambition.
Egged on by his former agent, AJ believed he could be a superstar and even had plans to team up with his younger brother, Curtis, with a view to them becoming the next Ant and Dec.
But following the
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