Helen Skelton: ‘I Felt Humiliated’ After Richie Myler Split
Helen Skelton solution to the misery was to embark on a high-profile new job on the BBC dance show Strictly Come Dancing, just seven months after Mr. Myler left her.
Before appearing on television, Helen was subjected to cruel gossip in her “tiny community,” said the star in the Times, complaining that she “didn’t enjoy walking down the street and people knowing about my love life.”
Helen said her dairy farmer father Richard could hear the gossip at his local golf club while “Susan from the meat counter at Sainsbury’s” asked her about her love life when she went shopping.
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However, her second-place finish on Strictly was still seen as a huge success, as she proved to the public, and in particular Richie, that she was perfectly capable of being without him.
One of the most memorable numbers for mother-of-three Helen during her time on the show was a couple’s choice of ‘Mein Herr’ from Cabaret, which she subsequently declared her ‘revenge dance.’
I was so sick of the patronizing looks, the “Ooh, how are you?” I didn’t have the capacity to say to them, “I’m brilliant, how are you?” That’s what that dance was about.’
During the routine, Helen Skelton made sure to mouth the words ‘you’re better off without me’—the famed words of Cabaret star Sally Bowles—as a ‘metaphorical “fuck you”‘ to those who had doubted her.
Since quitting Strictly, Helen has subsequently left her Sunday radio show on BBC Radio 5 Live in 2023 so she can spend more time with her three children at the weekend, admitting the ‘juggle is real.’
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We work together; he’s one of my best friends,” she said. Besides that, she also said she never shared her relationship status on any dating platforms, adding, “I couldn’t think of anything worse, although my dad keeps telling me I’m on Tinder when he means Vinted.” “
When Helen and Gethin turned up together at the ITV Pride Of Britain charity event in October 2025, followed by a star-studded Royal Television Society lunch in Manchester in November of the same year, it caused quite the stir among their co-stars.
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Their commonality was immediately apparent—both former Blue Peter presenters and both participants of Strictly Come Dancing, the pair possess the classic attractiveness of any other former children’s TV presenter.
However, the fact that they were spotted at a spa near Gethin’s home in Cheshire, 110 miles from where Helen’s based in Cumbria, meant the gossip mill was quick to grind out a different story.
Gossips could not have been more right given that neither Gethin nor Helen has done much to stifle speculation on the subject.
Though neither he nor she officially confirmed the rumor, not even by his agent when approached by this paper on several occasions, prior to this weekend’s revelation.
When asked about the allegations in Prima Magazine this December, Helen could only say that the pair are “such good friends” and Gethin and she “forget” they are on television, making for a “bit of a problem” when it comes to working with Helen and Michelle Ackerley on the BBC One panel show.
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I’ve been friends with Michelle and Gethin for 25 years. Geth was on Blue Peter before me, so we used to crossover, you know, and Michelle and I were flatmates in London.’
‘We just work together; we are not together. No, no, no. We are just work friends. They printed pictures of us at work and that we’re together because we are at work together.’ Helen told The Mirror
In fact, Helen and Gethin have presented Morning Live full-time since January 2024, where it has thrived, drawing millions of viewers each week, after it was launched three years ago by the BBC to directly compete with ITV’s This Morning
The pair quickly became big names in the media world, with their vibrant personalities making them household names, leaving many at ITV feeling envious of the BBC’s talent acquisition.
