CURTIS Pritchard has broken his silence after a love rival slammed his girlfriend Ekin-Su Culculoglu.
Love Island legendon a Misfits card on May 16, has thrown down the gauntlet to Married At First Sight’s Georges Berthonneau, saying “call me out and we’ll fight.”;
He insists he’s paid no attention toat the same time she was getting to know Curtis in the All Stars villa in January.
More recently, the MAFS star said he while she was sleeping beside Curtis.
But in an exclusive interview with The Sun, the villa favourite said it was nothing but “outside noise”;.
“Hey, if he wants to get in the ring with me, tell him to call me out and let’s get in the ring,”; said Curtis.
“I’ve just been focusing on the camp. I haven’t read anything or done anything, truthfully. And that’s all that matters to me.
“I’m focusing on the camp, I’m focusing on having fun with Ekin and that’s all that matters to me.
“Any of the outside noise or outside stuff that’s going on, I haven’t got time to even let it settle into my brain. I don’t even know what’s going on. I can’t be bothered with the whole situation of anything else, bar myself, Ekin and fighting right now. And I think that’s just the way my mind works.
“It was like that in my dancing days. I’m focused on this one thing. You can’t let all of these other outside distractions get into your head whatsoever. There’s just no point.”;
Curtis famously swapped his dancing shoes for boxing gloves in The Boxer and The Ballroom Dancer with Tommy Fury, following their time in the Love Island villa.
It saw them teach the other their respective disciplines.
Though the pair were once close pals, they rarely speak these days and for his Misfits fight.
“We don’t speak that much anymore,”; admitted Curtis. “Our careers sort of went opposite ways. But now we’re actually going down the same career path, maybe there’ll be a reunited situation there.
“As of this moment we haven’t communicated about boxing.”;
He’s always been a boxing fan and for the past seven weeks he’s lived and breathed the sport as he prepares to get inside the ring for his first proper bout.
The heavyweight exhibition fight is a totally new tag team format that might take boxing purists some getting used to.
Four fighters – Big Tobz, Curtis, Godson Umeh, and Tempo Arts – will battle it out over five, three-minute rounds.
Each boxer has two tap outs that they can use whenever they like, however they will be docked a point on the second tap.
After the first three rounds, one fighter will be eliminated, then another will go after round four leaving just two to battle it out.
Curtis said: “Truthfully, because it is quite a new concept, there ain’t much to go off. So I’ve got some plans in my head of what the best way for me to do it, which I will not be saying. But it’s a bit of a learning curve.”;
Being on the same card as professional fighters like Darren Till and Darren Stewart is certainly helping to motivate the former Dancing With The Stars man.
And he believes that, despite his freshness in the sport, he has what it takes to upset some experienced heads.
“It’s sick. Genuinely it’s wild,”; he said. “I’ve always loved watching fights. I’ve always loved fighting as a sport. It’s really interested me throughout my life, but I’ve never had time to do it.
“Being at such a high level of dancing, like when I was performing and competing a lot, that took up my life.
“I feel like once you get a mindset to become a high level of something, as long as you have that same mindset into something else, you become very good at it very fast.”;
Ekin-Su will be cheering him on come fight night, though she’s found it difficult watching him prepare.
“She’s come to a couple of sessions, sparring and stuff,”; said Curtis. “For anyone that’s not in the fight game, just seeing somebody you really adore getting punched obviously isn’t going to be very nice for you.”;
“You hear her scream. We’ve got some videos of me sparring and then you can hear Ekin just like screaming. Then all of a sudden when I punch them she’s like ‘YEAH!’ 100 percent she’s going to be there.”;
The transition to sportsman has given Curtis renewed drive following years on reality television, and he likens it to his pro dancing days.
“When you come off a programme like Love Island, sometimes you can do 20 different things,”; he said.
“And it’s nice now to be focusing on one thing and actually getting myself back into a mindset of how it was when I was representing England, training every day, focus on this, get your sleep, get this, get that. It gives you that end goal and it gives you a real focus point.
“I think a lot more people in life actually need to do that. I’m having to sleep more than ever, doing more exercise than ever. I bloody love it.”;
