Fitness guru Joe Wicks has confessed he treated his ex badly and says he “wishes he gave her more respect”.
Joe, who is better known as The Body, Coach tied the knot with his significant other Rosie last year who has recently been helping him lead his YouTube PE sessions.
But before his romance with Rosie, Joe was in a ten-year relationship with Swedish fashion company boss Caroline Ekström after they met in Byron Bay, New South Wales while backpacking in 2006.
They returned to Britain to live together while Wicks studied sports science she took a degree in business management at Kingston University.
But after returning to the UK to live together while Joe studied sports science and she took a degree in business management their relationship fell apart.
Joe Wicks and his wife Rosie, who helped him withb his home workouts when he suffered an injury (Image: Internet Unknown)
Joe said at the time that the pair split amicably.
Now the keep-fit king has admitted that he wasn’t kind to Caroline at the end of their relationship, saying she ‘is the person he would most like to apologise to’ , The Mail On Sunday reports.
The 33-year-old said: “I would like to say sorry to my ex-girlfriend. I was with her for ten years.
“I wish I’d treated her with more respect and been kinder at the end.”
Joe first mentioned Caroline when he appeared in public eye was as a contestant in a newspaper modelling competition in 2008.
But before his romance with Rosie (pictured), Joe was in a ten year relationship with Swedish fashion company boss Caroline Ekström (Image: thebodycoach/Instagram)
He said: “I’d love to do this for a job. Working with gorgeous women all day? Brilliant!
He added: “My girlfriend Caroline reckons I’d be great at it.”
In 2016 he told The Mail on Sunday how his first ‘get lean in 15 minutes’ Instagram clip received just 98 likes.
His pals described the item as ‘silly’, but Ms Ekström rang him to try boost his confidence by telling him: “I like your video.”
Joe split from his ex Caroline in 2016 before getting together with Rosie (Image: Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images)
Mr Wicks, told how the pair planned to get hitched in 2006 but he revealed they split in the summer of that year after “growing apart”, just before he moved to the US for work.
At the time he claimed the pair split amicably, saying: “We just grew apart”, adding: “But we’re still really good friends. There was no nastiness.”
Rosie and Joe first started dating back in 2016 and now the item share two adorable children together.
Ms Ekström’s and Wicks’ representatives have been contacted by Daily Star Online for comment.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
