Robin Windsor’s household thank mourners for ‘outpouring of affection’
Robin Windsor’s heartbroken household thank mourners for ‘outpouring of affection’ after the Strictly Come Dancing star was tragically discovered useless aged 44.
The skilled Latin and Ballroom dancer vanished final week earlier than his physique was found in a London Hotel on Monday.
Friends and household have been paying tribute to Robin, who was finest identified for his showing on Strictly come dancing from 2010 to 2015, all week because the unhappy information was revealed.
Robin Windsor’s household shared a press release, which learn: ‘We wish to thank everybody for the outpouring of affection and celebration of our beloved Robin.
‘While we perceive that there’s a enormous public and media curiosity round his passing, we as a household want time to course of our shock and grief.
The skilled Latin and Ballroom dancer vanished final week earlier than his physique was found in a London Hotel on Monday
Robin Windsor was finest identified for his showing on Strictly come dancing from 2010 to 2015
The ‘energetic’ performer began dancing on the tender age of three
‘We ask for the wants of our household and mates to be considered and for our privateness to be revered at this tough time.
‘We would ask that the fixed media hypothesis cease. As we now have additional data we are going to share a press release in the end.’
Robin had opened up on his struggles with psychological well being earlier than his demise in a video for SANE, a charity he was an envoy for, with volunteers from the charity.
He defined: ‘Once I spoke to somebody who fully listened, they did not actually have to offer me recommendation, they only needed to pay attention and I might see that they needed me to be higher.
‘It’s choosing the right particular person to talk to.’
Sharing the video, SANE paid tribute to Robin’s reminiscence, writing: ‘We have been very distressed to study of the demise of Robin Windsor, one among SANE’s most vigorous and constant ambassadors.
‘He introduced the magnificence, vitality and sheer pleasure of his dancing into psychological well being and gave hope to these, like him, who’ve struggled with darkish occasions.’
After Robin went lacking final week his shut pal Vincent Simone frantically rang these near the star to seek out out the place he was.
Vincent, who can also be a dancer and had identified Robin since he was 17, informed the Mirror his pal was identified to go lacking and that it had been an ‘ongoing drawback’.
Robin Windsor received his huge TV break when becoming a member of Strictly Come Dancing in 2010
Robin Windsor’s dance companions included TV presenter Susanna Reid, seen right here performing collectively on Strictly Come Dancing for Children in Need in 2011
Robin Windsor and Kristina Rihanoff throughout the launch of their Burn the Floor present in 2013
He stated: ‘He would detach himself from folks for 2 or three days. Then he would come again to the world, to actuality. But this time, he did not come again. He was the most effective man I ever met.’
Robin suffered a troubling incident over the New Year interval, earlier than embarking to carry out on an expensive cruise in South Africa.
‘He stored saying that one thing had occurred over New Year however he would not say what it was,’ the pal informed the Mail. ‘He sounded completely traumatised – no matter had occurred will need to have been really terrible.’
Seven days earlier, the dancer had reposted a quote which stated: ‘Trauma teaches you to anticipate and settle for the naked minimal. In this new season, could you modify your requirements and study to obtain the utmost. You are worthy. You are sufficient. You deserve overflow.’
And on January 4, he had shared a message along with his mates and followers which stated: ‘Big shout out and like to everybody who’s reached out and checked within the final week. Sorry I’ve not replied… it has been a little bit of a attempting time and issues are wanting up. Robin.’
Tributes have poured in beneath the star’s tragic final selfie, with one fan writing: ‘So shocked and saddened to listen to the information. Have adopted him for years since Strictly, an incredible expertise. RIP.’
He spent his ultimate days having fun with a safari in addition to the sunny seashores of Cape Town. But the dancer’s smiles belied his emotional anguish.
This week, the Mail revealed that Robin died with simply £879 in his firm’s enterprise account years after he pulled in £100,000 a 12 months as a Strictly star and was as soon as paid £10,000 to bounce for 2 minutes.
The tragic entertainer’s personal agency had not traded for a while and based on Companies House Records was going through an ‘lively proposal’ to be struck off, data present.
The firm Happy Feet Creative Limited was owed nearly £5,000 the final time it filed accounts, however owed collectors £15,000, which means it was £8,350 within the purple.
A heartbroken Susanna Reid fought again tears on yesterday’s Good Morning Britain on ITV after studying of Robin’s demise
Robin Windsor dazzles in a blue ensemble throughout his current cruise ship travels
Robin Windsor had been spending a while in Cape Town when the cruise ship docked, writing on-line: ‘This place is the distraction of all distractions.’
Robin is pictured right here three weeks in the past in South Africa the place he was dancing on a cruise ship travelling all over the world
At the peak of his movie star in 2015 and 2016 he held greater than £23,000 within the firm and superior himself £35,000 from the corporate, which was repaid.
The firm had channelled earnings from a ‘extensive number of contracts to supply performing arts companies inside the media business’, paperwork stated.
In current months Robin had been engaged on a Fred Olsen Cruise – alongside fellow Strictly skilled Gordana Grandosek Whiddon – and posted footage of himself when the boat docked in South Africa.
He had beforehand been a director of Caffe Italia in south London, with shut pal Marco Bertarini.
Saddened Bertarini has posted a collection of images of the pair collectively on Instagram.
He wrote: ‘My coronary heart is damaged I at all times beloved you and at all times will goodbye amore.’ He wrote: ‘My coronary heart is damaged I at all times beloved you and at all times will goodbye amore.’
More lately Robin had been starring in Come What May, a Moulin Rouge tribute present.
He beforehand informed how he was paid £100,000 a 12 months throughout his time on Strictly which got here to an finish after the twelfth collection in 2014.
He additionally recalled one time he earned ‘foolish cash’, telling This Is Money: ‘My dance companion and I have been as soon as paid £10,000 every to remain in a luxurious resort in Mauritius for every week and dance the cha-cha-cha at an occasion. Our dance lasted two minutes.’
He remembered in September 2022 that the ‘finest’ 12 months of his monetary life was 2010, ‘my first 12 months on Strictly Come Dancing’.
He stated: ‘All of a sudden, I used to be incomes cash I had solely dreamt about. I most likely made about £100,000 that 12 months – not simply from Strictly however from work off the again of the present such because the tour and personal performances.
‘When you are on prime-time TV, everybody desires a little bit slice of you.’
Speaking about his Strictly exit final 12 months, Robin stated he turned so ‘bitter’ about not being allowed to return that he could not bear to look at it.
‘I received to bounce and present 13million folks each single week what it was that I like to do. So, as soon as that was taken away from me, I went into fairly a gradual decline.
‘I used to be unhappy. And, I do know all of us have our darkish days, however my darkish days changed into darkish weeks and I would not get off the bed. I did not actually perceive why I used to be feeling like that or easy methods to get out of that state’.
