Dancing On Ice hunk gutted over his split

LOVE Islander Wes Nelson has been struggling to cope since his split from Megan Barton Hanson.

The nuclear engineer has battled heartbreak behind the scenes at Dancing On Ice for several weeks. When he spoke about the split in a new interview, he became so emotional he broke down in tears. Wes said: “Me and Megs, we had a really good bond and it makes me upset now to talk about it. But it isn’t great, and it was really difficult at the time.

“We did love each other. It wasn’t just a holiday romance.” Staffordshire-born Wes is still hoping he will find happiness. His heartbreak inspired his song choice for his routine on tonight’s Dancing On Ice – Never Too Much by Luther Vandross.

He said: “It’s my parents’ wedding song. My mum and dad mean the absolute world to me. I can’t even thank them enough for how much they’ve done for me.

“I think my mum and dad completely personify the word ‘love’. Of course I’ve experienced love, but I’d love to love like my parents do.” Wes, 20, and Megan, 24, split just six months after meeting in the Love Island villa.

His busy training schedule made things difficult for the pair, as he explained: “I think she wishes that I hadn’t done Dancing On Ice.

“We wanted a simpler life but it’s very difficult when you come off a show like Love Island.

“Dancing On Ice has pretty much taken over all of my schedule. Every single day I’m training, doing hours and hours and hours. It’s difficult.

“It’s so time-consuming and I’m away from home all the time. It makes it very difficult to plan things. In a normal relationship you can say, ‘We’ll go to this place, we’ll have a date night this week.’ With my schedule and training, it changes day by day, week by week.

“Megan couldn’t deal with that. It was making her upset. You’ve got to look at it from her point of view. You can’t just say, ‘Wait there for a bit, we can’t spend any quality time together, just wait for me.’

“If it’s making you unhappy and that upset and making you feel that down and sad, who am I to say, ‘No, just keep being upset’?”

Wes is the clear favourite to win Dancing On Ice. Bookies are confident he has it in the bag after rival James Jordan suffered an injury.

William Hill’s Rupert Adams said: “Unless he has a disaster, Wes looks like a certainty to lift the title.”

The four remaining couples battle for survival in tonight’s semi-final.