Ore Oduba’s ex spouse Portia reveals she’s going to ‘by no means marry once more’ as she says the thought has been ‘ruined’ after her marriage broke down following the TV presenter’s porn habit
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Strictly Come Dancing winner Ore Oduba’s candid admission that he struggled with an addiction to pornography for more than 30 years seems to have had a lasting impact on his ex-wife, Portia Jett.
The former Strictly Come Dancing winner, 40, opened up about his ‘life destroying’ porn addiction to Paul Brunson on his podcast We Need To Talk late last year.
And after he and Portia’s nine-year marriage collapsed in 2024, the former TV researcher says she’ll never walk down the aisle again, admitting the idea of it has been ‘ruined’ for her.
‘I have a different view of marriage and the advice I would give my children,’ said Portia, who has two young kids with the TV presenter.
She added: ‘The divorce process is one of the hardest and most stressful thing I have ever been through. I would never put myself through that again.’
Portia is now going out with Joshua Saxon Birch, a British-German businessman, 37, who works in data management.
Ore Oduba’s ex wife Portia has revealed she will ‘never marry again’ as she says the idea has been ‘ruined’ after her marriage broke down following the TV presenter’s porn addiction
The former Strictly Come Dancing winner, 40, opened up about his ‘life destroying’ porn addiction to Paul Brunson on his podcast We Need To Talk late last year
She’s now looking for long-term commitment in the form of a ‘promise ring’.
She shares two children, Roman, seven, and Genie, four, with Ore whom, they co-parent.
It comes after Ore revealed he contemplated suicide during the darkest days of his porn addiction.
Ore has now said that the addiction, which started when he was just nine years old after he was shown adult images, left him on the brink of ending his own life.
In an emotional interview, the TV presenter this week described the moment he realised that he’d hit rock bottom.
Speaking on the Hurt to Healing podcast on Tuesday, Ore said: ‘I was pushing a lot of red buttons in my life that I knew were not working. I had to change the way that I was living, and I had to change the people that were in my life, because for me if it carried on that way, it was going to be lights out.
‘I knew that the person that I was becoming, it was either, save myself or carry on for the betterment of others and… it’s a very sensitive topic, but I’m talking about suicidal ideation.
‘I was thinking I can’t carry on like this. So, I knew I had to save myself, I had to save my life.
Portia is now going out with Joshua Saxon Birch, a British-German businessman, 37,(pictured) but she is now looking for long-term commitment in the form of a ‘promise ring’
It comes after Ore revealed he contemplated suicide during the darkest days of his porn addiction (Seen together in 2016)
‘So when its that, when its life and death that we’re talking about, there’s only one way out. I have to stop this.’
In November he bravely opened up for the first time about his porn addiction, as he admitted spending ‘thousands and thousands’ on adult content after becoming hooked when he was first shown adult images aged nine.
Ore told the We Need To Talk podcast that it was only 18 months ago that he ‘escaped my addiction’.
‘Shame kept me silent for 30 years. It took me 30 years, two deaths, and a divorce to finally go: here’s what’s happening,’ he revealed.
The father of two said he wanted to speak out now to highlight the issue of children seeing sexual imagery on social media.
An emotional Ore said: ‘This is me putting my life as it is on the line, to save my children and to guide anybody else’s children going into a world where at their fingertips, they can fall into something they never asked to.’
He added: ‘Part of me is terrified, the vast majority is terrified because I feel like, personally, for me, the rest of my life begins the day after this, as it’s a kind of a seminal draw-the-line moment.’
