Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Ex-wife: Strictly star Artem ditched me for television fame

THE ex-wife of Kara Tointon's Strictly lover told yesterday how he broke her heart.

Artem Chigvintsev won the BBC1 show with former EastEnders beauty Kara - and the couple are dating.

But his American ex Giselle Peacock claimed the Russian is obsessed with "fame and money".

Dancer Giselle, 29, met Artem at a championship in Blackpool in 2003. They wed the next year, but now Giselle believes all he wanted was a green card letting him stay in the States.

She said he dumped her without a word as soon as he won a place on a TV dance show in 2005.

Competition ... Artem Chigvintsev and Giselle Peacock

Giselle added: "It was like it instantly went to his head. He disappeared out of my life."

In 2006 Artem made the newspapers when he began a two-year romance with Carrie Ann Inaba, 14 years his senior and a judge on the US version of Strictly.

Yesterday Kara, 27 - who split with Albert Square co-star Joe Swash in May - and 28-year-old Artem cosied up in the snow with The Sun.

The lovebirds checked out their favourite paper as they left Kara's North London home.

Kara said: "Now we're out of the studio it'll be nice to do normal things like the cinema."

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