A NEW CHAPTER BEGINS: Ore Oduba’s Ex-Wife Stuns Fans With First Family Holiday With Her New Love After Painful Split
ORE Oduba’s ex-wife Portia Jett enjoyed a family holiday with her new man and three children.
The Strictly Come Dancing champion and Portia split in 2024 after nine years of marriage and share two children, son Roman, eight, and daughter Genie, four.
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Portia Jett with her new boyfriend Josh Saxon BirchCredit: Instagram
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Portia was married to BBC broadcaster Ore Oduba for nine yearsCredit: Instagram
Portia, who works as a personal trainer, went on a sunny holiday with her new boyfriend Josh Saxon Birch and his son from a previous relationship.
In photos shared to Instagram, Portia described herself as “just a mum trying to get five minutes to herself with three kids.”
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She also posted two photos lovingly posing with Josh in a strapless white dress.
“Us.. And three little tag alongs..” she captioned the post.
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Portia and Josh took their kids on a sunny family holidayCredit: Instagram
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Ore won Strictly Come Dancing in 2014Credit: Getty
Portia went Instagram official with Josh in October 2025.
Earlier this year, Ore and Portia’s children faced heartbreak when their family home, which they bought in 2022 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, had to be sold.
Portia said on social media in March: “I told the children that we are selling the house.
“It’s hard, especially for Roman, to have these conversations. He’s really upset.
“I tried to explain why. It’s gutting.”
Ore, who won Strictly with pro dancer Joanne Clifton in 2014, opened up about his financial situation in an interview with The Times, admitting: “Strictly gave me a false sense of stability.”
On top of his divorce upset, grief for his father and limited television work, Ore was forced to face further loss when his younger sister Lola took her own life in April 2025.
Following that loss, Ore to finally faced up to his own battles after a 30-year struggle with addiction – admitting he had spent “thousands and thousands” of pounds on porn since he was nine-years-old.
He told The Times: “I’ve spent thousands on pornography. It makes me burn that this is what our children are inheriting, and what we’re doing as adults is relinquishing our responsibility to regulate it.”
