Ore Oduba rang in his 40th birthday in glitzy style over the weekend.
The Strictly Come Dancing star took to Instagram on Monday to share snaps from his trip to ABBA Voyage, for which he wore a sparkly crop top and leather trousers.
In an accompanying caption, he shared profound words about his milestone birthday, stating: ‘ I am working my a*s off to make sure it is the best, fullest, most loving life’.
His big birthday comes after Ore, who split from his wife Portia last year, stunned fans when he revealed he has been in the grasps of a devastating porn addiction that ‘destroyed his life’ since the age of nine.
Speaking on Paul Brunson’s We Need To Talk podcast, he stated that only 18 months ago he ‘escaped my addiction’, saying: ‘Shame kept me silent for 30 years. It took me 30 years, two deaths, and a divorce to finally go: here’s what’s happening’.
Ore Oduba rang in his 40th birthday in glitzy style over the weekend
The Strictly Come Dancing star took to Instagram on Monday to share snaps from his trip to ABBA Voyage, for which he wore a sparkly crop top and leather trousers
His big birthday comes after Ore, who split from his wife Portia last year, stunned fans when he revealed he has been in the grasps of a devastating porn addiction that ‘destroyed his life’ since the age of nine
Ore and Portia share kids Roman, seven, and Genie, four, and divorced earlier this year after 10 years of marriage.
Despite the split and his devastating addiction, he maintained a positive attitude in his post as he revealed Genie had taken the pictures.
He wrote: ‘T H I S I S F O R T Y…by day* and by night… (*captured beautifully by my youngest). Here’s to the year of friendship, family and no fear. To saying ‘yes’ with intention. And saying ‘no’ for peace protection…
‘If you’re only as old as you feel then I’ve never felt closer and more free to be the person I was always meant to be than I do today…
‘There was a time I thought my life was supposed to look a certain way and that by this age I’d be striding confidently along the path I’d planned for in my 20s…
‘Today I’m glad to declare I have no idea and no control over what the next 40 years look like. I genuinely believe (and have proven to myself) growth exists and life is lived in the uncertainty….
‘So here we are leaning into the unknown and working my ass off to make sure it is the best, fullest, most loving life…
In an accompanying caption, he shared profound words about his milestone birthday, stating: ‘ I am working my a*s off to make sure it is the best, fullest, most loving life’
After the devastating loss of his sister and father, as well as his divorce from ex-wife Portia (pictured) last year, Ore said rediscovering his faith is what ‘saved’ him
‘Terrified at whatever’s round the corner but well rehearsed to walk through the fire and discover the splendour of what’s on the other side…
‘No doubt there’ll be plenty more pain, heartbreak and heartache along the way, all the bumps in the road that make you appreciate the very joys of being alive…
‘But so glad to finally know it’s with no one else’s hands but MINE gripped loosely around the steering wheel. Strangers and loved ones alike, you are welcome to hop on and off along the ride…
‘Bloody hell 40 years, 40 spins around the sun!! I feel so incredibly lucky to have lived them all…. I’ve now read the manual, and now we’re ripping it up! Here’s to not taking a second of the next 40 for granted’.
Ore’s timely celebration comes after he revealed his painful addiction. He said he wanted to speak out now to highlight the issue of children seeing sexual imagery on social media.
An emotional Ore said: ‘This is me putting my life as it is on the line, to save my children and to guide anybody else’s children going into a world where at their fingertips, they can fall into something they never asked to.’
After Strictly Come Dancing, Ore said his faith fell completely off a cliff, which he thinks was a negative turning point in his life (pictured in 2016)
He added: ‘Part of me is terrified, the vast majority is terrified because I feel like, personally, for me, the rest of my life begins the day after this, as it’s a kind of a seminal draw-the-line moment.’
Ore said that he was first shown adult content on a computer by a friend’s older brother, explaining: ‘I remember being very intrigued and a feeling of eyes being opened. Whilst I wouldn’t say addiction set in immediately, the intrigue started immediately.’
‘And it didn’t take long relatively speaking, for that intrigue to start running my mind over because at nine, at that age, you haven’t necessarily got full access.’
‘Wanting to find a way to address that intrigue, wanting to find ways of that awakening, wanting to replicate it or find it whether it was on television or in magazines.’
‘This is the problem with this form of addiction that even I could understand at 10. It’s so shameful. We can’t talk about it because there is a perceived nature to it that is everything that we hate, everything that we despise.’
In the years following his winning stint on the BBC show Strictly his nine-year marriage to ex-wife Portia broke down – pictured together in 2016
