An inquest into their dying has begun.
Strictly dancer Robin Windsor explains cause for retirement
Former Strictly Come Dancing star Robin Windsor left a damning suicide observe slamming the BBC, saying the best way he was handled by the company “destroyed” him. The tragic dancer was discovered lifeless, face down on his lodge mattress, on the age of 44 in February 2024. A jury inquest into his dying, which opened at West London coroner’s courtroom on Monday February 9, 2026, heard two letters have been discovered close to his physique by PC Emily Hampson.
It heard the primary was addressed to a good friend and was disparaging concerning the remedy he had acquired from the long-running Saturday evening leisure present. “This all actually began after I misplaced my job on Strictly and have been preventing it ever since. The way in which they handled me destroyed me…It began me on the street I’m nonetheless on. All I needed from life was to be pleased. I liked my job greater than anybody else.” He continued saying, “the heartache, the loneliness, the fixed unhappiness”, had all acquired “an excessive amount of”.
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“I simply reside completely in a darkish place. I simply can’t reside like this anymore. It’s simply too painful,” he wrote.
“I had a very good run, I’ve carried out some unimaginable issues in my 44 years and had an unreal life doing what I liked, however all issues should come to an finish and my curtain has come down for the ultimate time.”
The second observe was addressed to his ex, actor Ollie Augustin, and in it Robin informed him: “I want you to grasp that this isn’t your fault!”
Robin first joined Strictly in 2010. Nevertheless, he suffered a devastating again harm in late 2013, which required surgical procedure to take away a disc, forcing him to withdraw from the 2014 present. He was changed by Trent Whiddon, however made an look in week 9 on 23 November 2014. He additionally appeared within the 2015 Christmas particular.
His former colleague and fellow professional dancer Kristina Rihanoff, 48, spoke on the inquest and burst into tears as she recalled how Robin “modified considerably” following his harm.
She additionally slammed the present as a “very lonely house with not a lot help”. She informed the listening to she was “extraordinarily upset” after studying he had not been requested again for the 2014 collection and stated “the psychological influence was very extreme” as a result of he “couldn’t do what he liked” because of his again ache.
Throughout his time on the BBC One present, Robin was additionally partnered with Dragons’ Den star Deborah Meaden, actress Anita Dobson, actress Lisa Riley and mannequin Patsy Kensit.
Categorical.co.uk has contacted the BBC for remark.
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