Strictly Come Dancing has made an epic comeback with more famous faces getting glammed up every Saturday night to put on a show for the judges and the public at home.
The iconic BBC dance competition has welcomed a number of EastEnders stars over the years with Frankie actress Rose Ayling-Ellis going on to win the show last year.
Now it’s Martin Fowler actor James Bye’s turn to represent Albert Square in 2022 and fans are keen to find out more about him.
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His journey has been marred with injuries along the way but that hasn’t dampened the star’s spirits.
He’s also got the full support of his stunning family behind him.
Let’s take a look at actor James Bye’s life away from Albert Square
Strictly accident
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He’s currently vying for the glitterball trophy on Strictly Come Dancing but star James has had his fair share of setbacks along the way.
He recently revealed he had another injury scare when dancing with his partner, Amy Dowden.
“I’ve dropped her, I’ve spun her into the ground,” the EastEnders star revealed to Digital Spy. “I kneed her [and] gave her a proper dead leg.
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I took the wrong step and I just kneed her right on the inside of the leg, and she was hobbling on.”
This comes after the actor recalled a gruesome injury in training earlier this month.
James, 38, told host Rylan Clark on Strictly Spin-off It Takes Two: “I was trying to show Amy in rehearsal how strong I was by doing pull ups on a girder and I ripped my finger open.
“It is only my wedding ring keeping my finger on at the moment” he told Rylan Clark.
“Let’s see how we get on with that one!.”
Stunning wife
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He’s got plenty of romantic dramas on EastEnders but actor James has a far smoother love life away from Walford
James is happily loved-up to his wife of ten years, Victoria.
The pair first met in a Sainsbury’s car park 16 years ago when Bye was working on a promotion job and “handed Victoria a fruit jelly”, according to What to Watch.
He asked her out on a date to the local pub and so began their blossoming romance.
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The couple resides in Buckinghamshire with their three sons Edward, eight, Louis, six and Hugo, three.
Victoria runs an Instagram blog called Life With The Byes which gives fans an insight into their everyday life as a family of five.
In a recent post, Victoria explained the reality of what it’s like raising children with their dad in the spotlight.
She wrote: “We finally settled in beautiful Bucks & the boys have grown up surrounded by countryside in our messy, noisy home and we’ve tried our best to keep things normal in the happy (and sometimes hectic) life we have. But it’s still a worry…
“When Louis comes home from school and anxiously asks me what ‘famous’ is.
“Or when Hugo thinks it’s normal that everyone takes selfies with his dad.”
Co-star bond
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His alter-ego Martin Fowler has seen plenty of ups and down with his on-screen wife Stacey Slater over the years but actors James Bye and Lacey Turner share a special bond when the cameras stop rolling.
In fact, the pair’s bond is so strong, James even asked Lacey, 34, to be Godmother to his third child Hugo.
Speaking to OK! at the time, the soap star said: “I took Lacey out for lunch to ask her. I was quite nervous and I was getting choked up asking her.
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“Bless her, she was really taken aback and said it was an honour.”
In 2019, Lacey gave birth to a baby girl called Dusty with husband Matt Kay, who she married in 2017.
James’ wife Victoria also told Ok! Magazine that she is excited for Dusty and Hugo to grow up together, as they are very close in age.
James also asked former EastEnders co-star Davood Ghadami, 38, who played Kush Kazemi until his character was killed off earlier this year, to be godfather to his and wife Victoria’s son Hugo.
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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
