As Curtis Pritchard gets a career resurgence on Love Island: All Stars, his brother AJ Pritchard reveals secret debt battle and says ‘people assume we’re millionaires but every single day, I am brought back to reality’

Strictly Come Dancing professional AJ Pritchard has opened up about getting into debt and the pressure of people ‘assuming your a millionaire’.

As his younger brother Curtis, 28, enjoys something of a career resurgence after joining Love Island: All Stars this week, AJ, 30, discussed his own financial situation. 

AJ explained how he has been on a ‘rollercoaster’ being a professional dancer where the next job is never guaranteed. 

Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, AJ revealed that he and Curtis were thrown into debt during the Covid-19 pandemic because their dance tour was instantly stopped but they made the hard decision to ‘pay all their dancers because it was the right thing to do.’ 

He said: ‘We had a company where we were running our own tour and the tour was  cut short. We paid all of our dancers because, personally, I felt like that was the right thing to do. We ended up with a VAT bill which came out of our own pocket. 

‘We didn’t get paid, myself or Curtis, but we paid…