THE end of an eight- year marriage – with your husband immediately setting up home with another woman – would floor most women.
Not Helen Skelton, who instead took to the TV dance floor and has been waltzing through her heartbreak.
The Strictly Come Dancing favourite believes the show has acted as ”therapy”, getting her through the end of her marriage to rugby player Richie Myler.
She says: “I came into this show quite battle-hardened.
“Strictly is probably quite overwhelming for a lot of people but for me, weirdly, I was actually in the best place to be in it.