Is Artem still with Kara? Did Kara Tointon win Strictly?

Kara Louise Tointon is an English actress best known for playing Dawn Swann in the BBC serial opera EastEnders.

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

At the age of 11, Tointon was a paid professional child dancer for the Snow White pantomime at the Cliffs Pavilion. Her debut television appearance was in 1994 as a school classmate of Sonia Fowler in EastEnders.

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

Is Artem still with Kara?

Kara Tointon has revealed to The Telegraph that she and Artem Chigvintsev, who partnered on the hit dancing show, have now split.

“We are not together,” Kara revealed at the Macmillan De’Longhi Arts Programme silent auction at the Darren Baker Gallery in Fitzrovia. “We’re fine, but we aren’t a couple anymore.

Did Kara Tointon win Strictly?

Peppermint-coloured ballroom dress worn by Tointon in the 2010 series of Strictly Come Dancing, which she won.