Alesha Dixon’s 17-year relationship is over however Britain’s Got Talent star reveals why she continues to be residing together with her ex
Alesha Dixon has confirmed to friends that her 17-year relationship with her partner Azuka Onony is over.
It was first reported in November 2024 that the Britain’s Got Talent judge, 46,and her long-term partner, who share daughters Azura, 10, and Anaya, four, had split.
Insiders have now revealed that Alesha is admit to friends that they have broken up, but has revealed that they are still living together.
The star recently enjoyed some time to herself at the £1000 a ight GoldenEye resort in Jamaica, with a source revealing to The Sun ‘Alesha confirmed she’s split from Azuka and is navigating that as best she can.
‘They are still living together for the sake of their family and are co-parenting. Alesha headed to Jamaica with her friends to get some sunshine and have a break from her hectic schedule. It was a great tonic and she had a fantastic time.’
Alesha is said to have confided in pals that her relationship with choreographer Azuka, 44, became ‘more of a friendship’ before going their separate ways.
Alesha Dixon has confirmed to friends that her 17-year relationship with her partner Azuka Onony is over (pictured together in 2021)
The pair made their last joint red carpet appearance in July 2023 at Stormzy’s star-studded 30th birthday and have not appeared on each other’s social media in recent months.
MailOnline have contacted Alesha’s representatives for comment.
The couple were rumoured to have secretly married in 2017 and she introduced him as her ‘lovely husband’ during an appearance Michael McIntyre’s Big Show Christmas Special in December 2017, however neither have confirmed if a wedding took place.
They first met in 2006 following Alesha’s one year marriage So Solid Crew rapper MC Harvey, following his affair with fellow singer Javine Hylton.
Azuka first worked as the former Mis-Teeq back up dancer before being hired as her creative director.
Speaking about the relationship on The Jonathan Ross Show in 2018, she admitted playing ‘hard to get for about a year’.
‘He was sleeping on the floor because I was on the couch, I couldn’t even get up the stairs. If he can carry me to the toilet then he’s a keeper.’
Alesha pictured presenting Comic Relief coverage for the BBC on Friday with Joel Dommett and Davina McCall
She said: ‘Then I had the foot operation and I couldn’t walk and he was literally sleeping on the floor looking after me every day. I was just looking at him thinking, ‘That is for better or for worse isn’t it?’ I looked a state,’
Alesha gushed over Azuka again during a 2014 appearance on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories and said she could ‘authentically be herself’ when she was with him.
‘I don’t have to be anything other than who I am and it’s a great feeling when you can just be yourself with someone. And it’s like being with my best friend every day’.
Meanwhile speaking about their family she told Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum podcast in 2020: ‘[Azuka] was the first person that I’d met, that I knew that we could have children together because of our values, our morals, our thinking aligned’.
And later told HELLO! in 2022: ‘If you choose to have children, you are their first introduction to the world, I make a very conscious effort that my daughters have a very loving, supportive home with two parents who are great role models. I feel a sense of responsibility.’
