Tasha Ghouri Debuts New Boyfriend Cam Whitnall at Strictly Live After Split from Andrew Le Page

Tasha Ghouri made her first public appearance with her new boyfriend Cam Whitnall at the Strictly Come Dancing live show on Saturday.

The Love Island star, 27, who began dating the presenter in May, was a contestant on the BBC show last year, and made it to the final with pro partner Aljaž Škorjanec.

While Tasha impressed with her dancing on Strictly, the series took a toll on her relationship with boyfriend Andrew Le Page, and they split in January, just weeks after the show ended.

Things then turned sour in July, when Andrew launched into an explosive rant about her being on a dating app during their relationship.

Daily Mail went on to reveal earlier this year that Tasha was dating Cam, who appears in CBBC series One Zoo Three and BBC show OZT Goes Wild alongside his brothers Ty and Aaron.

Cam, whose family run Hertfordshire Zoo, is the managing director of a non-profit charity, The Big Cat Sanctuary, which rescues wild cats and protects species at risk of extinction.

Viewers got a glimpse of Tasha and Cam’s first public appearance on Strictly, when the camera cut to the couple sitting in the audience following Karen Carney’s Charleston with Carlos Gu.

Daily Mail understands the new couple have bonded over their love for animals after Tasha rescued her dog, Luna, who she previously shared with Andrew, from Spanish charity Alora Dog Rescue and Homeward Bound.

A source said: ‘Tasha and Cam are in the early stages of dating.

‘They have been seeing each other for around a month now and share so much in common, from a personal and professional standpoint.

‘Cam is a great guy and has a lot going for him, Tasha has definitely been thrilled getting to know him and the feeling is mutual.’ 

It comes after Tasha’s ex Andrew launched into an explosive rant about her being on a dating app during their relationship. 

Andrew claimed that Tasha was using the celebrity dating app Raya while still in a relationship with him and insisted he wanted to speak out after she had appeared on ‘one too many podcasts’ to speak about him.

Soon after they released a shock joint statement. 

In the statement shared with Daily Mail, the former couple who met on Love Island in 2022, came together to address ‘hurtful comments’ in a move that took place after Andrew accused Tasha of not being able to ‘keep his name out of her mouth’.

The exes quickly put Andrew’s rant aside and come together to address the ‘noise’ around their relationship as Tasha admitted to ‘making mistakes’ during their romance. 

Both parties expressed their wish to ‘move on’ from the relationship after suffering ‘judgement and cruelty’ from online trolls.

Sharing her side of events, Tasha said: ‘I just want to address recent hurtful comments about me and & Andrew. We’ve always been open about who we are and what we went through, the hate and harsh words have been unfair and overwhelming for both of us.

‘No one deserves to be torn down, especially when they’re already trying to heal. We’ve both made mistakes, we’ve both learned, and we’ve both grown. But the judgement and cruelty we are facing from people online has been hard.

‘Please remember that behind every nasty post, every comment, every story, there are real people with real emotions. Always be kind.

While Andrew added: ‘Tasha and I want to address the noise around our breakup, as there’s been hate going around that neither of us ever wanted. 

‘Things were said on both sides, but at the end of the day, no relationship is perfect, but ours still had some incredible moments I’ll always be grateful for. 

‘I truly just want us both to move on and be happy. Wishing Tasha nothing but the best, and I’ll always be proud of her.’

The statements came shortly after he hit back at the star after she claimed in a new interview he ‘wasn’t supporting her,’ before their shock split. 

The couple, who met on Love Island in 2022, split in January, with Tasha admitting she now regrets her treatment of him after they ‘grew apart’ during her stint on Strictly Come Dancing.

Tasha, who has been deaf since birth and had a cochlear implant fitted at the age of five, appeared on the 2024 series of Strictly with pro partner Aljaž Škorjanec.

In an interview for Rylan Clark’s How To Be In Love, Tasha claimed their relationship was already starting to fray prior to her Strictly debut, with Andrew offering ‘no support’ as she progressed to the show’s latter stages.

But Andrew furiously hit back in a now-deleted post on Snapchat, where he accused Tasha of ‘talking s**t about him,’ before stating that Tasha had begun using the celebrity dating app Raya before their relationship was over.

He wrote: ‘Wasn’t gunna speak about it all. However, the girl can’t keep my name out her mouth even though she’s got a new boyfriend.

‘The truth is… she went on Raya whilst we were still together… oops.

‘No one is perfect in a relationship but you keep talking s**t about me I’ll start talking

‘She did one too many podcasts unfortunately. This is your closure chat.’

Tasha herself previously admitted she regretted signing up to Raya before her split from Andrew was made public.

Speaking on Spooning with Mark Wogan, the host referred to reports that she had frantically deleted her Raya profile after it was revealed.

She said: ‘I’ve already owned up to it, so yeah,’ with host Mark adding: ‘And admitted you thought it was a mistake in retrospect?’

‘Yeah. I’m happy being single at the moment,’ Tasha replied.

During her interview with Rylan, Tasha admitted she regrets how she treated Andrew after cutting contact with him in the wake of their split.

She claimed the relationship was on the rocks prior to her Strictly debut, with Andrew offering ‘no support’ as she progressed to the show’s latter stages. 

She recalled: ‘It got to a point where I was also trying to help him out, but he wasn’t willing to help himself. And that’s so hard because when you love someone, you want them to… you want the best for them. 

‘But there’s a point where you’re trying to also do the best for yourself and you’re trying to grow. And then Strictly happened and then I think that made us grow apart.’

She added: ‘On social media… it did come across like he was there supporting me, but emotionally at home, he wasn’t. 

‘I remember this one time, I was in a dance -off in the semi-finals. And I called him, like, you know, ‘I feel really nervous’. And he was just out there, gaming, didn’t stop gaming, didn’t put his console down, or take his headphones off and say, ‘Okay, talk to me.’ 

‘And that’s kind of where I started to really think, I deserve better than that. You know, I think that’s where I started to really think, why am I settling for something that I’m having to really beg for?’ 

The couple eventually separated while Tasha was participating in the annual Strictly Come Dancing tour, but while the split came as a relief, she admits regretting her treatment of Andrew – with whom she is no longer on speaking terms. 

‘I thought, I’m just not happy anymore and it’s really sad because I had to break his heart and that’s the one thing. And then when I came out doing the tour, like I remember for the week, I turned my phone off and he’d speak to anyone.

‘I was just so anxious, like just being out and about socially. And I shut myself off from him. He didn’t deserve that. Like I should have been there for him as well. Because when all this came out, he was like, what is going on? And I was also trying to come to terms in myself of what was happening as well. 

‘And that’s my biggest regret is how I treated him in that breakup. And I should have been so much nicer than I was.’

Crediting her former boyfriend for ‘teaching her so much about love,’ she added: ‘We’re not on speaking terms and that’s the saddest part. That’s the most saddest part about all of this.’ 

In recent months, Andrew, who works in property, has relocated to Dubai where he lived prior to finding fame on the ITV2 dating series.