How long were Kara and Artem together? Did artem and Kara date?

Kara Louise Tointon is a British actress best known for her role as Dawn Swann in the BBC serial opera EastEnders.

She won the BBC competition series Strictly Come Dancing in 2010, and she played Maria in the ITV live version of The Sound of Music Live in 2015.

At the age of 11, Tointon worked as a paid professional child dancer in the Snow White pantomime at the Cliffs Pavilion. In 1994, she made her television debut as Sonia Fowler’s schoolmate in EastEnders.

Tointon joined 26 other celebrities at Metropolis Studios in 2018 to perform Rock With Rudolph, an original Christmas song written and produced by Grahame and Jack Corbyn.

How long were Kara and Artem together?

Kara Tointon looked likely to become the first ever Strictly Come Dancing bride after her whirlwind romance with partner Artem Chigvintsev.

But it is only now, after ending her three-year relationship with the Russian pro dancer last year, that former EastEnders actress Kara has finally walked down the aisle.

Did artem and Kara date?

Now she has moved on and is loving life as a theatre and TV star. Not wanting to dwell on the past, she says her relationship with Artem was “wonderful while it lasted” but the pair grew apart and their work schedules meant they spent less and less time together until they decided to split around a year ago.