Strictly's James Bye had such a lovely twinkle in his eye when he first met wife Victoria that she happily overlooked that he was chatting her up in a supermarket car park – while dressed as a giant pineapple. Victoria fell for the EastEnders star when he was a budding actor doing a promo job in the car park.
She recalls: “He was handing out sweets, and I must have really liked fruit jellies because he gave me a fruit jelly and asked me for my number and that was it. He was wearing skintight red trousers and was stood inside a giant pineapple, so I won’t say it was the man of my dreams.
“But I saw he’d got a little twinkle in his eye – and he’s such a cheeky charmer that by the time I’d finished my jelly I was a smitten kitten. Six months later we moved in together and we’ve been together 17 years now.”
