Professional rugby union player Ben Foden has hit the headlines in the past for cheating on his popstar wife and his swift new marriage but now he will be swapping rugby boots for ice skates as he takes part in Dancing On Ice, which continues Sunday, January, 23rd on ITV.
The England international was married to Una Healy, member of the famous girl band The Saturdays and the pair met after his agent asked about his love life and Ben pointed out Una on the TV and said he would choose her.
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Soon after this the couple got together and they married in 2012 and have two children together Aoife and Tadhg.
The relationship ended in 2018 when Una found messages on Ben's phone confirming her suspicions that he had cheated on her with PR expert Becky Milne on a night out, while she was pregnant with Tadhg.
They separated in 2018 and divorced in 2019 and after knowing American business owner Jackie Belanoff for just two weeks she and Ben married in 2019.
He took to Instagram at the time to explain their quick marriage to his followers, saying: “I met a girl who seriously swept me off my feet and in a time of hardship showed me love, a deep devoted love."
“People will say we are mad or crazy or even fools, as @snackyjax and I had only been dating seriously for a little over 2 weeks before deciding to get married. But when someone like her comes in to your life, why would I wait?”
Ben and Jackie married on the same day that his divorce to Una was finalised and Ben has since admitted that he did owe Una an apology for moving on so quickly and so publicly.
Now Ben has a daughter with Jackie, Farrah, who was born in 2020 and he currently plays for Rugby United New York in the Major League Rugby.
Ben grew up in Cheshire and played for Cheshire and North of England under 16s, England under 16s, and England under 19s.
His first professional rugby club was the Manchester club Sale Sharks where he earned himself the nickname Pop Idol or Pops as he missed the first day of pre-season training to audition for Pop Idol.
After Sale Sharks he moved to Northampton Saints where he won the Aviva Premiership with them and was arrested for an altercation with a taxi driver.
He accepted a police caution for the incident and was able to carry on playing for Northampton Saints and he left the club in 2018 and joined Rugby United New York.
The rugby star also played for England in the 2009 Six Nations and went on to become a key member of the team starting all of England's Six Nations games in 2011.
During his career Ben also appeared on The X Factor: Celebrity, making it to the semi-final in the band Try Star.
Dancing on Ice continues on Sunday, January, 23, on ITV from 6.30pm.
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