Ben Cohen flogs
topless snaps online after putting £1.
75 million home
he shares
with fiancée Kristina Rihanoff up
for sale amid
money woes
Ben Cohen flogs topless snaps online after putting £1.75 million home he
shares with fiancée Kristina Rihanoff up for sale amid money woes
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Ben Cohen is flogging topless photos online as he promotes his new 2025
calendar after opening up about his money struggles.
The ex England rugby player and Strictly star, 46, posed for 12 shirtless
snaps and has personally signed each picture.
Ben is currently promoting his calendar on Instagram• Коммуникации » Интернет-коммуникации » Интернет-сообщество » Социальные сети » Instagram and sharing a website
link for fans to purchase for a staggering £32.95 each.
The former athlete showed off his muscular physique as he smouldered to the
camera while posing for the photos, which are teased on his social media• Коммуникации » Интернет-коммуникации » Интернет-сообщество » Социальные сети.
It comes after MailOnline revealed Ben and fiancée Kristina Rihanoff have
placed their £1.75 million home on the market amid money struggles.
Ben Cohen is flogging topless photos online as he promotes his new 2025
calendar after opening up about his month struggles
It comes after MailOnline revealed Ben and fiancée Kristina Rihanoff have
placed their £1.75 million home on the market amid money struggles
The five-bedroom home in Sywell, Northamptonshire• Великобритания » География Великобритании » Административное деление Великобритании » Графства Англии » Нортгемптоншир, which was bought in 2016,
was put up for sale last month, just weeks after the former rugby star laid
their financial woes bare in court.
Ben pleaded poverty, admitting he was 'fighting to save his relationship and
home' after professional dancer Kristina, 46, was caught driving without
insurance• Страхование.
She was slapped with six points on her licence but faced a ban for totting up
12 penalty points after being caught behind the wheel of her £30,000 Audi Q3• Транспорт » Транспортные средства » Автомобиль » Легковые автомобили » Легковые автомобили Audi » Audi Q3
in Northampton• Великобритания » География Великобритании » Административное деление Великобритании » Графства Англии » Нортгемптоншир » Нортгемптон on April 4 .
Her partner, who admitted bungling the couple's car insurance• Страхование policies, was
dragged to court to support her failed appeal against the motoring conviction.
Since then, the true extent of the couple debts and failing business• Экономика » Бизнес ventures
has been revealed.
The pair, who share an eight-year-old daughter Melina, now face more potential
legal battles after failing to submit accounts for a yoga studio which plunged
almost £500,000 into the red.
The family home, where the couple were still living in a few weeks ago, is sat
on a plot of 1.73acres of land and has been put for sale on RightMove for
£1,750,000.
It is described as a 'superb family home offering spacious and versatile
living accommodation' kitted out with an 'impressive kitchen breakfast/family
living area'.
Ben is currently promoting his calendar on Instagram• Коммуникации » Интернет-коммуникации » Интернет-сообщество » Социальные сети » Instagram and sharing a website
link for fans to purchase for a staggering £32.95 each
Their five-bedroom home in Sywell, Northamptonshire• Великобритания » География Великобритании » Административное деление Великобритании » Графства Англии » Нортгемптоншир (pictured) was bought in
2016 and was put up for sale on Thursday, September 19
The sale of the house appears to be a bid to salvage some of their financial
difficulties after the pair set up several businesses together after falling
for each other while paired up on Strictly Come Dancing in 2013.
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EXCLUSIVE
Ben Cohen could face more legal battles over yoga studio which plunged
£500,000 in debt
Their money troubles started to rear its head following the Covid• Медицина » Эпидемиология » Инфекционные заболевания » Вирусология » Вирусы » Коронавирусы
• Медицина » Заболевания » Инфекционные заболевания » Вирусология » Вирусы » Коронавирусы pandemic• Медицина » Эпидемиология » Пандемия in
2020, which impacted their fitness and wellbeing studio called Soo Yoga in
Northampton• Великобритания » География Великобритании » Административное деление Великобритании » Графства Англии » Нортгемптоншир » Нортгемптон.
The business struggled to make money during the pandemic• Медицина » Эпидемиология » Пандемия, which Ben
acknowledged while giving his testimony at Northampton• Великобритания » География Великобритании » Административное деление Великобритании » Графства Англии » Нортгемптоншир » Нортгемптон Crown Court.
'I get up every day and I fight not to lose everything - to lose my cars and
my house and my relationship. I'm so overdrawn,' he said.
When questioned on how this was impacting his relationship he added: 'We're
still living together. We're in it financially.
'We're in business• Экономика » Бизнес together so the problem is that we opened the business
before Covid• Медицина » Эпидемиология » Инфекционные заболевания » Вирусология » Вирусы » Коронавирусы
• Медицина » Заболевания » Инфекционные заболевания » Вирусология » Вирусы » Коронавирусы and we got the worst severities of it and in all honestly this is
just another problem for me to deal with.
'I've got credit cards that are overdrawn. I'm overdrawn in both accounts. We
have got a business• Экономика » Бизнес debt because of Covid• Медицина » Эпидемиология » Инфекционные заболевания » Вирусология » Вирусы » Коронавирусы
• Медицина » Заболевания » Инфекционные заболевания » Вирусология » Вирусы » Коронавирусы. It's just another problem.'
Companies House records show that the Soo Yoga Group Ltd was £488,470 in the
red in its last submitted set of accounts for the year ending on July 31,
2022.
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Ben Cohen reveals he is 'fighting to save his home and his
relationship' in moving court appearance
Accounts for the year ending on July 31, 2023, were due to be filed by April
30 this year - but have still not been submitted.
Company directors can be personally fined and left with a criminal record for
not filing accounts on time, which is usually nine months after the end of
their firm's financial year.
Soo Yoga Group was set up by Kristina and Cohen in June 2017, but the
professional dancer stepped down as a director and transferred her 50 per cent
shareholding to her finance• Экономика » Финансы » Заём in September 2022.
The studio's website says it offers a range of 'holistic' classes including
yoga, pilates, dance, cycling, spin, Hiit and meditation for a membership of
£690 a year, or a pay-as-you-go rate of ten classes for £120.
Its debts include an outstanding £190,000 loan• Экономика » Финансы » Заём made to Soo Yoga Group by a
company called Bespoke Ballroom Ltd which is 50 per cent owned by Russian-born
Kristina who is listed as an American citizen.
Former rugby star Ben fell in love with the Russian dancer after they were
partnered up on the 11th series of Strictly in 2013, despite him being married
at the time (pictured on the show)
The company was listed to be compulsorily struck off on December 27, 2022, but
the action was suspended nine days later and discontinued on April 28, 2023.
Records also reveal that a food services company called Soo Greens Ltd which
is 100 per cent owned by Soo Yoga Group Ltd was effectively £6,633 in the red,
taking into account future liabilities, in its last accounts for the period
ending on July 31, 2020.
The company's accounts for the year ending in July 2021 have still not been
filed and are now nearly 29 months overdue.
Another company called Soo Purple Mountain Ltd which is also owned by the Soo
Yoga Group, was set up in December 2021 and dissolved by a voluntary strike
off in February this year without ever filing accounts.
A fourth company called Soo Group Ltd which was half owned by Cohen and half
owned by three other people was also incorporated and voluntarily struck off
on the same dates.
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Sombre Kristina Rihanoff is picked up by fiancé Ben Cohen after he revealed
shock relationship woes
A fifth company called Yoga Wellbeing which is 100 percent owned by Rihanoff
was £5,041 in the red, taking into account future liabilities, at the end of
July 2020. Its accounts are also nearly 29 months overdue, according to
Companies House records.
The couple's business• Экономика » Бизнес struggles only came to light after Cohen laid the issues
bare in court, while admitting he had not renewed his partner's car insurance• Страхование
details.
He told the court that he had been abroad in March when he received a text
message from insurance company• Страхование » Страховые компании Dial Direct telling him they were going to
cancel his insurance• Страхование unless he sent them his no claims details.
He said he did not have a no claims bonus so did not send any details to the
company and did not respond to the text. Consequently the insurance policy• Страхование » Договор страхования was
cancelled on March 7.
Kristina was then stopped driving uninsured in Northampton town centre on
April 4 after police noticed she had no insurance• Страхование.
When officers phoned Mr Cohen, he immediately tried to take out another policy
with the same company.
He told the court: 'I 100 per cent did not know that policy would be cancelled
because the no claims information they'd been asking for wasn't relevant to
me.'
Cohen added: 'I didn't know until I got that call from Kristina then I was
(saying), 'What are you on about?' He also admitted he had not asked Kristina
about the dates of her previous speeding offences before taking out the
policy.
The pair fell for each other after they were partnered up on the 11th series
of Strictly in 2013
Ben's ex-wife Abby Cohen has since moved on with her partner David Warner
Kristina sobbed throughout the hearing and had to leave the courtroom holding
her hands over her mouth because she felt sick. She spent the rest of the
hearing wrapped in a white blanket holding a tissue to her eyes.
The dancer told the court she needed to drive to judge ballroom competitions
across the country, which earned her £2,000-a-month, and to take her children
to school.
Recorder Louise Cox rejected her appeal, but told Kristina she had 'every
sympathy' with her.
She said: 'We find you had an honest belief you were insured but don't accept
that belief was reasonable grounds to account for your lack of insurance• Страхование.' The
judge said that Kristina should have made sure she was insured before driving,
and ordered her to pay £357 in appeal costs.
Kristina left Strictly in 2015 after falling pregnant with Cohen's daughter,
now eight.
Earlier last year, Cohen said his relationship with Kristina had been
'strengthened' by 'difficult times in business• Экономика » Бизнес' ahead of their wedding.
He told HELLO! magazine: 'Over the last nine years we've been through the
wringer. To support each other through difficult times in business• Экономика » Бизнес is the
ultimate test in a relationship.
'I've watched her flourish, from her becoming a mum to growing as a
businesswoman, and it has strengthened our bond.'
They told the magazine that they plan to make the big day a family affair with
their daughter and Ben's twin daughters, both 15, from his marriage to first
wife Abby Blayney Cohen, serving as bridesmaids.
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