My friend said there was a thread on here this series about Gleb having an affair and leaving his wife but I cant seem to find it - was she mistaken or was it somewhere else?

Did he have an affair with himself?

I did read that apparently Gleb had an affair back during his days on DWTS and it turned into a massive spectacle with his wife running off with his daughter I couldn't find any sources to back this up though.

Did you read it on here BeeBumble?

Yes no idea where though and the DS search function is disgracefully useless.

It's been posted on here twice by edy10 and Elsa, who both watch DWTS. Gleb had an affair with a fellow dancer (I think) and his wife and the nation found out about it when the woman posted a compromising video of the two of them on social media. Gleb's wife returned to Russia with their daughter and refused to let him see her. He returned to Russia, reconciled with his wife and they are together again. She's been in the SCD audience a number of times this series and was deliberately introduced at the start of the series.

Thought this was Jay and Aliona rearing its head again

Is there anything to back this up because it seems odd that apparently the woman posted a compromising video and it turned into a big national scandal yet I can't seem to find anything that even mentions it.

They may just have sorted that legally. Iirc it was a blonde woman prancing around a garden in virtually no clothes

That sounds routine for Strictly folk.

I think this is the woman and video in question - its all a bit cringe (I assume they deleted all their tweets etc. about it at the time)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJXCmz_tRwo

You'll have to ask edy10 and Elsa as they followed it at the time when it happened in America. I'm parroting what they reported. Apparently Gleb deleted all his social media accounts in the aftermath.

Thanks for posting that. Interesting. Gleb's gorgeous.

That's what puzzled me, if it was a massive thing there would be a trace left online still, surely?

I was curious as I watched an interview with him where he says there's 3 types of salsa (joking I assume), the dating stage, the AT where you're sleeping together and the International tango where you've been married for 7 years and only staying together for the children...he was joking I assume but was an odd reference when that's how long he'd been with his wife

Thanks for the replies btw!

The first I realized it was really an affair and not just him doing a video with this woman to promote his underwear collection is when I saw a tweet by his wife Elena. I'm sure it's been deleted but it was something like "You have destroyed my family"

I'm trying to remember when it happened. Elena had a partner in the Indian DWTS and she was in Mumbai I guess or wherever they film it (Maks judged several times on the same Indian series.) Their series last 30-something episodes so she was gone quite a while - but all of a sudden, she quit the show and flew to Moscow.

I thought she was ill - and was surprised Gleb didn't mention anything about it so I started following both more closely on Twitter - and the affair became clear. Gleb was on DWTS Season 16 and he was in the troupe Season 17, so it was during or after Season 17, I think.

She quit the show? That's pretty major so agree with you there!

The dance is rather beautiful, shame about the circumstances.

I'm nutty enough to keep notes - here's one of the tweets where Elena refers to the affair (this is in response to a tweet by Izabella, maybe about being alone and sad - I didn't keep that one darnit):

Elena Samodanova @ElenaSamodanova · Oct 2 [2014]

@IzabellaMiko that's right. Next time never try to steal a man ,which was never yours #what goes around comes around

LOL @ notes!

It's ironic that she said that considering an interview with them lately with her saying she's not worried about him cheating on her with Strictly as if they cheat there's problems in the marriage to begin with...bit of a 180!

I found some more! But I didn't note the dates - some time in August or September 2014. In the first one, Elena's responding to the video Gleb and Izabella did.

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Elena Samodanova ‏@ElenaSamodanova 3h

@IzabellaMiko @Gleb_Savchenko you looked good together. Shame it's not his wife... And you broke my family
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Elena Samodanova ‏@ElenaSamodanova 4h

All the best with your new relationship @IzabellaMiko @gleb_savchenko #niceway #BeHappy #e husband
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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them @samodanova

That's a weird response from him in the last one...all so odd to say on Twitter!

I didn't realise it was only last year, that's not long ago at all

Oh it's ridiculous! Many word documents of useless facts. But I guess it's a [mostly] harmless habit... Not as damaging as drugs and alcohol anyway

In Brendan's head, that's exactly how Snowdance looked

Well it gave me an answer to my question so I'm not complaining!

As I said I didn't realise it was so recent...I did think it odd that their little girl is at school in Hong Kong and she's here with him and not the child, but maybe that's why