Craig Revel Horwood has sat on the Strictly Come Dancing panel for so long that it’s easy to forget the life behind the scorecard has had dramatic twists of its own — from his 1984 breakthrough in La Cage aux Folles (iNews) to his tenure as the show’s longest-serving judge. His biography is a mix of confirmed fact and softer rumour, from marriages and an engagement to a reported mansion in Northamptonshire.
Full name: Craig Revel Horwood ·
Born: 4 January 1965 ·
Nationality: Australian–British ·
Occupation: Dancer, choreographer, theatre director, author, TV judge ·
Known for: Strictly Come Dancing judge
Quick snapshot
- Strictly Come Dancing judge since 2004 (BBC One, the show’s broadcaster)
- Longest-serving judge on the panel (his official website)
- Born 4 January 1965 in Ballarat, Australia (IMDb, the credits database)
- Net worth: about £1 million to £5 million depending on the outlet (TVOvermind (entertainment site) and Znaki.fm (profile site))
- £2 million mansion purchase, reported but unverified (Daily Express)
- Facial-surgery speculation with no public comment on record (TVOvermind (entertainment site))
- Lives in Northamptonshire with fiancé Jonathan, per a 2023 Guardian profile (The Guardian)
- 2026 tour dates planned, promoted through his official channels (The Guardian)
- New-house coverage framed by the Mirror around BBC licence-fee payers (The Mirror)
Six entries, one pattern: the career facts are nailed down by primary sources, while the money is a spread rather than a number. The anchors below are BBC One (the broadcaster), IMDb (the credits database), iNews (UK news), The Guardian (UK newspaper) and lighter entertainment sites for the financial rows.
| Fact | Detail | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Born | 4 January 1965, Ballarat, Australia | IMDb |
| Strictly tenure | Judge since 2004 | BBC One |
| Stage breakthrough | La Cage aux Folles, Sydney, 1984 | iNews |
| Residence | Northamptonshire, England | The Guardian |
| Reported net worth | About £1 million to £5 million across outlets | TVOvermind (entertainment site) / Znaki.fm (profile site) |
| Reported BBC earnings | Around £300,000 a year, per HELLO! | HELLO! |
Is Craig Revel Horwood in a relationship?
Yes — and for once the private life is the well-sourced part. According to Wikipedia’s biographical summary, Horwood has been with Jonathan Myring since early 2018, and the couple announced their engagement in April 2020.
The engagement is the rare personal detail that appears consistently across biographical sources — which is why it belongs in the confirmed column rather than the rumour one.
How old is Craig Revel Horwood’s fiance?
- Craig Revel Horwood: born 4 January 1965
- Jonathan Myring: reported to be around 30 years younger
- Engagement: announced April 2020
The age gap is part of the public conversation around the couple, whether they welcome it or not. Coverage of the engagement has consistently placed Myring around three decades younger than Horwood, and the engagement itself has now been public long enough to be one of the more stable personal facts in this profile. Less is documented about how they met or when a wedding might happen.
The pattern: the relationship facts are the best-documented part of his private life, which is why the engagement sits in the confirmed column and the wedding date does not.
How many times has Craig Revel Horwood been married?
Biographical summaries say twice, but the public record cleanly documents only one marriage. Horwood married Jane Horwood in 1990, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1992 — dates carried in the IMDb biography.
- Marriage 1: Jane Horwood, 1990–1992 — documented
- Marriage 2: referenced in roundups, not clearly documented
The second marriage is one of the weaker links in the standard biography: it appears in summaries, but the sources behind this article do not pin down its dates or circumstances with anything like the same confidence as the first one.
Who was Craig Revel Horwood’s first wife?
- Name: Jane Horwood
- Married: 1990
- Divorced: 1992
Jane Horwood is the only spouse named in the biographical record used here. The marriage belongs to a period when Horwood’s career was moving from Australian theatre towards the UK — years before Strictly Come Dancing existed.
What this means: “married twice” is one of those biographical claims that sounds definitive until you look for the documentation behind it — and the documentation, so far, covers one marriage.
Does Craig Revel Horwood have any children?
On the available record: no. Neither the documented marriage to Jane Horwood nor the long relationship with Jonathan Myring includes publicly reported children, and the biographical sources used here are silent on any.
- Children reported: none
- Documented marriages and engagement: none include children
What this means: for a public figure this visible, an absence of any credible report of children is itself the answer — the question keeps being asked because it is a standard biography field, not because there is a mystery.
What is Craig Revel Horwood’s real name?
Craig Revel Horwood is the real name — “Revel” is a middle element, not a stage invention. The BBC’s own Strictly profile, IMDb and his website all credit the full form, and no separate birth name appears in the record.
The name sounds invented precisely because it fits the TV persona so well — but the persona is the thing that was built around the name, not the other way around.
The pattern: “Revel” reads as a stage name for the same reason the on-screen character reads as a performance — it is theatrical. The record says it is simply his name.
Where in Northampton does Craig Revel Horwood live?
The reliable answer is Northamptonshire, the county — not the city of Northampton itself. The Guardian’s September 2023 profile places Horwood and his fiancé Jonathan in Northamptonshire, making it the strongest sourced statement about where he actually lives.
Which village does Craig Revel Horwood live in?
- Documented: Northamptonshire (The Guardian, 2023)
- Exact village: not named in the sourced record
- Address level: not publicly confirmed
The village question is where online coverage starts to outrun the evidence. Tabloid articles and social posts have attached specific villages to Horwood’s name, but the only firmly sourced location in the research behind this article is the county-level reference from The Guardian. Any claim naming a specific village should be backed by something stronger than a headline — and in this record, it isn’t.
Where is Craig Revel Horwood’s new house?
The “£2 million mansion” story traces to a Daily Express report and a Mirror headline — not to property records or to any statement from Horwood himself.
Horwood reportedly bought a £2 million mansion in 2021, per a Daily Express report; the Mirror then picked the purchase up with a framing that thanked BBC licence-fee payers for the bill. Both are tabloid outlets with a headline incentive, which is why the claim stays in the “reported” column rather than the confirmed one.
Why this matters: the gap between “county” and “village” is an evidence gap. The county comes from a Guardian profile that involved talking to the man; the mansion details come from tabloid arithmetic. Choose your source accordingly.
What is Craig Revel Horwood’s net worth?
The most reliable number is the oldest one, because it came from Horwood himself. In a 2009 Financial Times interview republished by Yahoo Style UK, he said his assets and business turnover were worth more than £1 million. Everything since is an estimate built on top of that quote.
- About £1 million — his own 2009 description of assets and turnover (Yahoo Style UK, quoting the Financial Times)
- £1 million — TVOvermind’s estimate, based on his industry years before and after Strictly
- £300,000 a year — HELLO!’s figure for his BBC-linked earnings
- £200,000 a year — the Daily Express’s lower BBC salary report
- About £5 million — Znaki.fm’s more generous profile estimate
Read those together and the spread is the story: £1 million to £5 million is not hidden wealth, it’s missing data. No public audit of his accounts exists, and the only first-party number remains the 2009 interview.
Treat any single net-worth figure as a guess with a byline. The honest range here is £1 million to £5 million, and the only first-party number is the 2009 self-assessment.
The trade-off: Horwood has never needed to publicise his finances, so the vacuum gets filled by whoever needs the click — and the wider the spread, the clearer the invention.
Craig Revel Horwood: the timeline signal
Eight dates, one pattern: the professional line runs straight from 1984, while the private milestones cluster late and stay quieter.
| Year | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 4 January 1965 | Born in Ballarat, Australia | IMDb |
| 1984 | Breakthrough in La Cage aux Folles, Sydney | iNews |
| 1990–1992 | Marriage to Jane Horwood | IMDb |
| 2004 | Joins the Strictly Come Dancing panel | BBC One |
| early 2018 | Relationship with Jonathan Myring begins | Wikipedia |
| April 2020 | Engagement announced | Wikipedia |
| 2023 | Guardian profile places the couple in Northamptonshire | The Guardian |
| 2026 | Planned tour dates | Official site |
The same sources cited across this article underwrite these dates; the table simply arranges them in order.
The pattern: the professional timeline is linear and well-sourced; the private timeline is shorter, later and quieter. That is the shape of a public figure who became famous first and settled down second.
Confirmed facts vs what’s still unclear
Here is the same material, separated into what the record backs and what it doesn’t. The split is the article’s honest centre of gravity: the career is confirmed, the personal details are half-documented, and the money is a rumour with a decimal point.
Confirmed facts
- Born 4 January 1965 in Ballarat, Australia (IMDb, the credits database)
- Strictly Come Dancing judge since 2004 (BBC One, the show’s broadcaster)
- Longest-serving judge on the panel (his official website)
- Breakthrough in La Cage aux Folles, Sydney, 1984 (iNews)
- Engaged to Jonathan Myring since April 2020 (Wikipedia)
- Lives in Northamptonshire, per The Guardian’s 2023 profile
What’s unclear
- Exact net worth — estimates from £1 million to £5 million
- Reported £2 million mansion purchase, from 2021
- Facial-surgery speculation with no public comment
- Exact village inside Northamptonshire
- Second marriage, referenced without solid documentation
- Stabbing incident details — referenced but unverified
The trade-off: the clearer the money story gets, the less reliable it is; the clearer the biography gets, the more it depends on a single solid source — Wikipedia for the engagement, the Guardian for the address.
In his own words
Horwood has said dance was his escape — the route out of a difficult childhood and into a career where being expressive was the point, not the problem. — Craig Revel Horwood, in an interview with The Times
“The master of the Glitter Ball” is the self-title on Horwood’s official website, and it tells you everything about the persona he has built around the Strictly panel.
Horwood and his fiancé Jonathan live in Northamptonshire.
— The Guardian, 2023 profile
The juxtaposition of the self-styled “master of the Glitter Ball” with the private man who settled in Northamptonshire explains more about his on-screen persona than any scorecard: the arch, brutally honest judging character is a controlled performance from someone who once used dance to build a way out.
Craig Revel Horwood’s career is the most solid part of his story: the 1984 breakthrough, the 2004 Strictly landing, the record as the panel’s longest-serving judge. The personal biography is thinner — one documented marriage, a documented engagement, a home county, and a net worth that exists somewhere between £1 million and £5 million depending on which source you read yesterday. For readers, the choice is straightforward: trust the BBC profile and the Guardian on the dates and the address, treat the tabloid figures as entertainment, and let the width of the money estimates tell you how little anyone actually knows. For anyone writing about him, the discipline is the same as his own: rehearse the facts until they’re exact, or don’t go on stage.
Frequently asked questions
What has happened to Craig Revel Horwood’s face?
Horwood has never publicly addressed cosmetic-surgery speculation. No medical or professional confirmation appears in the record, so any specific claim about surgery should be treated as unverified.
What is Craig Revel Horwood’s book about?
His first book, All Balls and Glitter, was published in 2008 and covers his life in dance and theatre — from a childhood in Ballarat to the years on the Strictly panel.
When is Craig Revel Horwood’s 2026 tour?
Tour dates are planned for 2026 and promoted through Horwood’s official channels. Specific venues and tickets are listed on his official website as they are announced.
Was Craig Revel Horwood stabbed?
Claims about a stabbing incident have circulated in tabloid coverage, but no verified account appears in the research behind this article. Treat the claims as unconfirmed.
Is Craig Revel Horwood still a judge on Strictly Come Dancing?
Yes. He has been on the judging panel since 2004 and remains its longest-serving member, according to his official biography and the BBC’s programme profile.
Who is Jonathan Myring?
Jonathan Myring is Horwood’s fiancé. According to Wikipedia’s biography, they have been together since early 2018 and announced their engagement in April 2020; a 2023 Guardian profile described them as living in Northamptonshire.
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