Ben Cohen and Kristina Rihanoff are said to be ‘back together’ after they were seen cosying up at fashion event over the weekend.
It was reported back in March the couple had parted ways and were going to ‘go forward as separate individuals’ after 12 years as an item.
Daily Mail was told at the time that severe financial difficulties were believed to have been the reason behind their split.
However, it would seem that the duo, who share a daughter Mila, nine, have reunited after they attended an event together.
Russian dancer Kristina, 48, was pictured with her arm draped over Ben, 47, while chatting at the table, in photos obtained by The Sun.
A source told the publication: ‘They’ve decided to give things another go. They looked very much in love.’
Ben Cohen and Kristina Rihanoff are said to be ‘back together’ after they were seen cosying up at fashion event over the weekend
It was reported back in March the couple had parted ways and were going to ‘go forward as separate individuals’ after 12 years as an item
They were said to have poured everything they had into a yoga studios and fitness business and were severely impacted by Covid.
Daily Mail has contacted the couple’s representatives for comment.
The extent of the couple’s struggles were laid bare in unusual circumstances – during a court appearance last September when professional dancer Kristina was caught driving without insurance.
Giving evidence during the case, England World Cup winning rugby star Ben admitted he had bungled the handling of their car insurance policy and told how he was ‘fighting to save his relationship and home’.
A friend of the couple told Daily Mail in March: ‘The past six months have been hell for them and it has torn the love they had apart. For the sake of their family, they have chosen to go forward as separate individuals.
‘Those close to them who know them as a couple had hoped they would be able to work things out but for now it’s over and it looks like there’s no going back.’
The couple were left with crippling debts after they ploughed every penny they had into a yoga studio which plunged into crisis during the Covid pandemic.
In a tortuously frank admission Cohen told the court: ‘I get up every day and I fight not to lose everything – to lose my cars and my house and my relationship. I’m so overdrawn.’
When questioned about the strains on his and Rihanoff’s relationship, he said: ‘We’re still living together. We’re in it financially.
Daily Mail was told at the time that severe financial difficulties were believed to have been the reason behind their split (pictured in 2017)
A source told The Sub: ‘They’ve decided to give things another go. They looked very much in love’ (pictured in 2013)
He added: ‘We’re in business together so the problem is that we opened the business before Covid and we got the worst severities of it and in all honestly this is just another problem for me to deal with.
‘I’ve got credit cards that are overdrawn. I’m overdrawn in both accounts. We have got a business debt because of Covid. It’s just another problem.’
MailOnline was given an insight into the struggles during an interview with the couple in May 2021.
They started Soo Yoga Group together in June 2017 – four years after falling for each other when they partnered on the 11th series of the hit BBC show.
Companies House records showed that the Soo Yoga Group Ltd was £488,470 in the red in its last submitted set of accounts for the year ending on July 31, 2022.
The company was facing being struck off and Cohen has since resigned as a director leaving Rihanoff as its sole director – while other companies linked to the couple were also in difficulties.
It was not long before the couple had put their £1.75million five-bedroom home in Sywell, Northamptonshire, where they had lived since 2016 on the market.
The couple revealed the irony of how they set off full of hope on a project to improve health and wellbeing only to be plunged into a crisis which left them facing losing everything and damaging their mental health.
Russian-born Rihanoff – who left Strictly in 2015 before giving birth to their daughter Mila the following year – had worked hard to retrain as a yoga instructor.
But the couple were forced to close their seven-studio yoga centre when the pandemic struck just nine months after opening.
The studio offered dance, meditation and pilates classes while Cohen taught high intensity training.
Rihanoff told MailOnline: ‘The company is a new company we’d just set it up. We invested everything we’ve ever had.
‘It was awful. I put everything into it and you don’t even have a chance to develop the business.
‘We opened in August after the first lockdown and had a huge spike. It’s a family orientated centre. Then November lockdown, December it was awful because we didn’t know the end of it. It was forever and ever and ever. Fingers crossed we can go back to normality soon.’
