Strictly Come Dancing star Tyler West has revealed he didn’t come out of his room for two years after witnessing a murder when he was just 14-years-old.
ITV and Celebrity Race Across The World star Tyler competed on the BBC dancing competition back in 2022 and was eliminated on the Blackpool special in week nine, alongside pro dance partner Dianne Buswell.
Despite not winning the series, Tyler found love when he met his future fianceé Molly Rainford, who reached the final with Carlos Gu. Announcing their relationship in March 2023, the couple went on to move in with each in London in January 2024.
Lorraine contributor Tyler got down on one knee to propose to the EastEnders actress back in August. Tyler chose their holiday to Mykonos as the perfect time to ask his girlfriend the important question, which she said yes to.
Appearing on the latest episode of Pete Wicks’ Man Made podcast this week, Tyler, 30, reflected on how witnessing a fatal stabbing on a London council estate affected his mental health. Fighting tears, Tyler bravely spoke about the incident to Pete.
“I’m panicking over here because I saw the men coming back out and then they’re trying to put the body in a bag. And it was, it was horrible. It just went on for like, I think in total, the phone call to the police was just over 10 minutes and still nobody had arrived by this point.
“And then the two men had gone back into the flat and we’d gone out there, me and my mum, and my mum’s trying to put the towels on the wounds, I’m standing over this man’s body. And I just, I was in hysterics. I was like, I was in shock.
“I couldn’t feel the tears running down my face. You know when something’s hurting you that bad and you can’t comprehend what’s actually happening. That was one of, and I didn’t know it at the time, but I never knew that that would be something that changed the course of my life forever,” Tyler said.
The incident caused Tyler to believe that he was going to be killed in a similar fashion. Having already been ‘shy growing up’, Tyler noted that he ‘didn’t come out’ of his bedroom for two years. I was like, absolutely not. I developed quite severe OCD… there would be certain little things throughout my day. I couldn’t open the blinds for one, and my bedroom was in complete total darkness. Couldn’t use a knife and fork at dinner.
“I couldn’t walk on that side of the road if ever I did have to go out the house. I had to, it sounds so stupid, but I had to make my bed. And if I didn’t make my bed, there was this ideology that something bad would happen to me. I was petrified I was going to die,” he stated.
From here, Tyler found any form of violence triggering and had to be a witness at the trial. Appearing in court made things even tougher for him. He explained: “As I’m going past page one, page two, page three, I’m seeing the man’s body in the road,” he said. “I’m seeing the drugs on the table in the living room. I’m seeing the murder weapon. I’m seeing all of these different things that are now imprinted in my mind.
“And I can’t, no matter how hard I try in my life, week in, week out, you can’t ever erase that picture right there of things that I didn’t even see on the day, I then saw at the court case. I think the way the whole situation was handled, I will forever be angry at it, but then also, my life and journey up until this point now I’ve managed to find some sort of peace within that anger.”
With the weight of what happened causing him further pain, Tyler went to a bridge near his home in the early hours of one morning. Tyler told Pete that he ‘didn’t know’ what he was doing there.
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Thankfully, a car was driving past the bridge and beeped, which Tyler described as a ‘eureka moment’. Tyler then decided that it was time to go home.
“And it was just like within a second, you can be so worked up. You can be like, ‘I don’t want to do this’. I don’t want to be here. Fixated on something and it was like, it’s just, it’s essentially a car horn that saved me in that moment,” he said.
In a shocking twist that left fans stunned, the complicated relationship between Kim Burgess and Adam Ruzek takes another dramatic turn — this time with unexpected pregnancy news that changes everything.
It all begins after an emotional and intimate moment between the two. What seemed like a fleeting connection quickly turns into something far more serious when Burgess discovers she’s pregnant — and Ruzek is the father.
The news hits hard. Not just for Ruzek, but for Burgess herself, who finds herself completely overwhelmed by the reality of the situation.
With a dangerous job, an unstable life, and a relationship still full of unresolved tension, Burgess is forced to face the hardest question of her life:
Should she keep the baby… or let it go?
At first, she hesitates. The timing feels wrong, the risks feel too high. Ruzek, equally shaken, struggles to process it all — but makes one thing clear: he will stand by her, no matter what she decides.
The pressure builds as both of them realize that this isn’t just about love anymore — it’s about responsibility, fear, and the unknown future ahead.
After a deeply emotional case, Burgess begins to see things differently. The idea of becoming a mother slowly starts to feel right. Against all odds, she decides to keep the baby.
For a brief moment, it seems like hope has returned.
But then… everything falls apart.
During a dangerous mission, Burgess is brutally attacked. The consequences are devastating — she loses the baby before it ever has a chance to be born.
The loss shatters both of them.
In an instant, hope turns into heartbreak, leaving fans completely devastated by one of the most emotional storylines in the series.
The tragedy doesn’t just take the baby — it leaves a deep emotional scar between them. Burgess shuts down, drowning in grief, while Ruzek is left feeling helpless and broken.
And yet, somehow, this shared pain begins to pull them back toward each other.