New Strictly star split with pro partner just last week in huge hint she was signing up for BBC show

STRICTLY Come Dancing‘s newest pro dancer split with her long-term partner ahead of her joining the upcoming series. Dance champion Maddie Ingoldsby announced she and her professional partner Mark Chilcote have ended their dancing relationship after seven years together. Pro dancers Maddie Ingoldsby and Mark Chilcote have ended their professional relationship Credit: instagram Maddie will be joining Strictly Come Dancing Credit: instagram The 21-year-old announced the split with a joint Instagram post where they shared a montage of them embracing after winning multiple titles. The emotional video was accompanied with Harry Styles’ debut solo single, Sign of the Times and a lengthy caption. Sign up for the TV newsletter Thank you! “The final bow to the end of our partnership,” it began. “After the most extraordinary seven years of our lives, we have made the incredibly difficult decision to bring our partnership to an end. Some endings don’t arrive because our passion has faded, they arrive because life asks us to grow in new directions.” The pair announced their split on social mediaCredit: Refer to source Maddie will be the second youngest pro ever to join Strictly Credit: instagram Their joint statement described how they not only had danced together for years but also grew up together. “Our partnership has been our greatest teacher and our greatest treasure. It has challenged us to find strength in one another, and opened up the world to us in ways we couldn’t have dreamed possible, performing on countless stages across twenty countries,” they wrote. “Dance has been our language to express what words never could… We never danced to simply win. We danced to tell our story, and we hope that somewhere along the way, our story became a small part of yours.” They listed some of their winning titles including, eight world championship titles, three major championships: Internationals, UK Open and British Open. Most read in TV The post concluded: “Our story will live on in hearts and in memory, and with the end of one chapter a new one awaits each of us. Mark is in search of a new dance partnership, while Maddie is putting a pause on her competitive dancing.” Their announcement came as The Sun exclusively revealed Maddie was joining Strictly as the second youngest pro dancer to be on the cast of the BBC dancing competition. Maddie has joined the show in a year when multiple pro dancers have been axed. Comment now