Kristina Rihanoff has been pictured for the first time since her fiancé Ben Cohen revealed they're 'fighting to save their relationship.'

The Strictly Come Dancing star was visibly downcast as she was picked up by her partner in his £90,000 Audi Q7 in Cheshire on Wednesday.

Last week, Ben revealed that his relationship with Kristina had hit the rocks as he appeared in court on her behalf after she faced a driving ban for driving her £30,000 Audi Q3 without insurance.

Kristina bundled up in an oversized grey cardigan as she was picked up by Ben, having faced a driving ban for totting up 12 points on her licence.

She went to court to appeal her sentence for driving without insurance, with Ben appearing as her witness to reveal he had been searching for cheaper insurance after being quoted £7,500 by Aviva.

During the appeal hearing on Friday, Ben admitted to overlooking a text message from his insurance company prior to the incident, as her partner sobbed throughout the hearing. 

The pair fell for each other after they were partnered up on the 11th series of Strictly in 2013.

The court heard they had set up several businesses, including a Yoga studio, which had suffered as a result of Covid.

Cohen said: 'I get up every day and I fight not to lose everything - to lose my cars and my house and my relationship. I'm so overdrawn.'

When questioned about the strains on his and Rihanoff's relationship, he said: 'We're still living together. We're in it financially.

'We're in business together so the problem is that we opened the business before Covid and we got the worst severities of it and in all honestly this is just another problem for me to deal with.

'I've got credit cards that are overdrawn. I'm overdrawn in both accounts. We have got a business debt because of Covid. It's just another problem.'

Rihanoff sobbed throughout the hearing and had to leave the court room holding her hands over her mouth because she felt sick.

She spent the rest of the hearing wrapped in a white blanket holding a tissue to her eyes.

She told the court she needed to drive to judge ballroom competitions across the country, which earned her £2,000-a-month.

She also said she needed to drive to take her children to school.

Cohen confirmed that he had been solely responsible for sourcing insurance for the couple's cars.

The judge said that Rihanoff should have made sure she was insured before driving.

Rihanoff, of Sywell, Northants, was ordered to pay £357 in appeal costs.

In May 2021 she told the Mail the couple had 'invested everything we've ever had,' into a yoga and fitness centre in Northampton.

'We went into business for very serious reasons, we'd never refer to ourselves as celebs, like, 'Oh I'm going to do some wine business or cheese business just on the side for fun'. It wasn't like that for us.

'I've got qualifications in about ten different styles of yoga - post-natal, pregnancy, traditional... I didn't just think, ''Oh I'm going to do yoga now''.

'I've practised for 20 years.'

But less than a year later it was reported that Soo Yoga wellness brand owed £426,431, and had cash reserves of just £2,648 as debts spiralled due to Covid lockdowns.

Companies House records show that the Soo Yoga Group Ltd was £488,470 in the red in its last submitted set of accounts for the year ending on July 31, 2022. 

Accounts for the year ending on July 31, 2023, were due to be filed by April 30 this year - but have still not been submitted.

Company directors can be personally fined and left with a criminal record for not filing accounts on time, which is usually nine months after the end of their firm's financial year.

The 22nd series of Strictly Come Dancing kicks off this Saturday amid a string of scandals over bullying and abuse.

Cohen fell in love with the Russian dancer after they were partnered on the 11th series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2013, despite him being married at the time.

She subsequently left the show in 2015 after falling pregnant with their daughter, now eight. 

Earlier last year, Cohen said his relationship with fiancée Kristina has been 'strengthened' by 'difficult times in business' ahead of their wedding.

He told HELLO! magazine: 'Over the last nine years we've been through the wringer.

'To support each other through difficult times in business is the ultimate test in a relationship. 

'I've watched her flourish, from her becoming a mum to growing as a businesswoman, and it has strengthened our bond.'

They told the magazine that they plan to make the big day a family affair with their daughter and Ben's twin daughters, both 15, who he shares with his first wife Abby Blayney Cohen - serving as bridesmaids. 

Rihanoff said: 'She's already told me what she's going to wear. 'I want this kind of dress, Mummy, with a long train like you will have,' she tells me. She certainly knows her own mind.'