Strictly Come Dancing star Joe Sugg talked about how the 'stars realigned' when he was partnered up with current girlfriend Dianne Buswell.
The former YouTuber, 30, was paired up with professional dancer Dianne, 32, in September 2018 and the rest was history.
They spent 16 weeks working tirelessly to get to the final of the BBC series, with Joe saying they saw the 'best and the worst' of each other during that time.
However, they ended up coming runners-up to Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton.
A day after the show ended in December, the couple took to social media to go public with their relationship.
"I may not have won the glitter ball, but I’ve won something a million times more special," Joe wrote in a sweet post.
Speaking on The Diary Of A CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett, Joe opened up about the 'luck' they had on being partnered up together.
Steven asked whether he thought Dianne and him would have dated if he wasn't on Strictly Come Dancing.
"We have the same conversation, we're like how lucky it was we were even partnered together," Joe said.
"If we weren't even partners on the show but were on the same show, we still say we may not have got together.
"Because when you're actually with your partners, you don't see each other throughout the week. So we sort of see it as like the stars sort of realigned there."
He went on to discuss how the months spent training together solidified their feelings for each other.
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"We saw the best and the worst of each other over that sort of 16-week period," he added.
In August 2019, the couple took their relationship to the next level and moved in with each other.
He even travelled to Australia to meet her parents in December that year. It was the first time he spent Christmas without his own family.
In early 2021, Dianne was asked about future plans and whether marriage was on the table for them.
"I'm quite an unorganised person actually, Joe and I don't really talk about that kind of thing [marriage]," she said.
"We're both so relaxed so we just play it by ear. We really enjoy each other's company so much and whatever happens, happens."
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