CRAIG REVEL HORWOOD

MR Nasty has reduced many a celeb to tears with his deadpan, withering put-downs since the show began in 2004.

But one person who knows the cuddlier side of Craig, 53, is his partner, horticulturalist Jonathan Myring, 31. They’ve been dating since February and it’s serious. Craig said: “I can see marriage in the future.”

Craig’s childhood was darkened by his late dad’s heavy drinking. Philip Revel Horwood, a former lieutenant in the Royal Australian Navy, took out a life insurance policy on Craig in case he died of AIDS and was jailed in 1989 after going on a boozy rampage with two guns – nearly shooting a son-in-law in the process.

Craig’s love life has had more ups, downs and sharp turns than a tango.

As a young man he was bisexual before marrying Jane, who left him for another man. He fell in love with a man and has been gay ever since.

In panto He was also in a relationship with a sugar daddy who paid for his dance lessons. Craig said: “It was this man who was 43 and I was 17.

“He said I will pay for your classes but you come away with me and we do the dirty.” Craig also lived with Britain’s Got Talent puppeteer Damon Scott for three years before an acrimonious split.

His TV and choreography work rakes in more than £300,000 a year and he has a £1.5million mansion in Hampshire. Off screen he is just as loose-lipped.

In his book Tales From the Dance he claims Darcey farts during Strictly. Partner Jonathan The Queen of Latin in action

HEAD judge Shirley, 58, has been in the hot seat for two years since Len Goodman retired.

Raised by her mum Audrey after her dad walked out, she grew up on a council estate in Wallasey, Merseyside.

She started dancing at the age of two, going on to win countless titles and the nickname The Queen of Latin.

Shirley first wed at 18, but the marriage to dance partner Sammy Stopford only lasted five years.

In her 20s she married dancer Corky Ballas and they were together for 22 years before divorcing. Their son Mark was a dancer on US hit Dancing With the Stars.

Just days before Shirley, 58, started her new £250,000 Strictly job, Corky gave an interview describing their relationship’s daily rows and bust-ups.

Shirley, who is single, has been mocked by Craig Revel Horwood, who claimed she flashed her boobs to impress BBC bosses when applying for the Strictly job. He joked: “Her boobs were like La BaZooKa things hanging out. They sewed all that up.

“Then they had to push them down... and they’re fake.”

Shirley’s brother David took his life 15 years ago after battling depression and she raised his daughter Mary as her own.

MARRIAGE Her ex-husband Corky