Steve Backshall and his athlete wife Helen Glover have been married for nine years and have three children together.
From winning gold at the Olympics for her children to suffering a heartbreaking loss, here’s an inside look at Steve and Helen’s romance…
Steve Backshall and Helen’s romance
In 2014, former Strictly Come Dancing star Steve – who features on Bridge of Lies today (Saturday, June 28) – and Olympian Helen met for the first time whilst taking part in a Sport Relief event at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
A year later, Steve popped the question whilst the couple were in the Namib Desert. They tied the knot by the coast in Penzance, Cornwall, where Helen grew up. At the wedding, Steve admitted that “from the second I saw Hels, I knew she was the one”.
Two years later, in March 2018, Steve and Helen announced that they were expecting twins. Helen announced the exciting news on social media by sharing a photo posing against a sunset with her baby bump showing.
She declared that the new arrivals would be the “biggest adventure” of the couple’s lives.
“It will be a big change, but such an exciting one,” she wrote on Twitter. “It’s something we’ve wanted together for ages, and we are both really happy – Steve is absolutely beside himself.”
Helen had learned she was pregnant the previous December, when naturalist Steve was away filming.
Steve and Helen lost one of their twins (Credit: The Project / YouTube)
Steve and Helen’s heartbreak
However, a month after Helen’s pregnancy announcement, the couple were left heartbroken when they learned that one of their unborn babies had died.
Taking to Twitter at the time, Helen opened up about the “hard” news.
“Thanks for all your lovely messages. We’ve had the hard news that one baby hasn’t made it, but we are very excited and hopeful for the remaining baby to arrive this summer,” she wrote at the time.
Thankfully, Helen gave birth to a baby boy, Logan, in July 2018.
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