Ore Oduba’s ex-wife Portia Jett has shared a cryptic and telling post in the wake of his revelation about suffering from porn addiction.
The TV researcher, who announced her split from Ore in January last year, took to Instagram in the wake of his appearance on Paul Brunson’s We Need To Talk podcast – on which he revealed he battle porn addiction since the age of nine.
A sweet picture shared on her story saw Portia laughing in a field, surrounded by pumpkins, with her and Ore’s kids Roman, seven, and Genie, four, either side.
Portia, who met Ore when they were both at university, seemed to take a swipe at her ex-husband by adding Taylor Swift’s 2025 song Father Figure, which includes lyrics about finding a significant other when they were ‘young, wayward, lost in the cold’.
The song alludes to the protagonist having to cover all bases of the family, going on to say: ‘I was your father figure // You pulled the wrong trigger // This empire belongs to me // Leave it with me // I protect the family’.
Ore Oduba’s ex-wife Portia Jett has shared a cryptic and telling post in the wake of his revelation about suffering from porn addiction
The TV researcher, who announced her split from Ore in January last year, took to Instagram in the wake of his appearance on Paul Brunson’s We Need To Talk podcast – on which he revealed his battle with porn addiction since the age of nine (Ore pictured earlier this year)
Portia, who met Ore when they were both at university, seemed to take a swipe at her ex-husband by adding Taylor Swift’s 2025 song Father Figure, which includes lyrics about finding a significant other when they were ‘young, wayward, lost in the cold’
Ore revealed on the podcast he had been in the throes of the addiction since the age of nine, meaning he suffered throughout his marriage to Portia.
On the podcast, Strictly star Ore 39, revealed he has battled a porn addiction since the age of nine, which has ‘destroyed his life from the inside out’. He stated that it was only 18 months ago that he ‘escaped my addiction’.
‘Shame kept me silent for 30 years. It took me 30 years, two deaths, and a divorce to finally go: here’s what’s happening,’ he revealed.
The father of two said he wanted to speak out now to highlight the issue of children seeing sexual imagery on social media.
An emotional Ore said: ‘This is me putting my life as it is on the line, to save my children and to guide anybody else’s children going into a world where at their fingertips, they can fall into something they never asked to.’
He added: ‘Part of me is terrified, the vast majority is terrified because I feel like, personally, for me, the rest of my life begins the day after this, as it’s a kind of a seminal draw-the-line moment.’
Ore said that he was first shown adult content by a friend’s older brother, explaining: ‘I remember being very intrigued and a feeling of eyes being opened. Whilst I wouldn’t say addiction set in immediately, the intrigue started immediately…
‘And it didn’t take long relatively speaking, for that intrigue to start running my mind over because at nine, at that age, you haven’t necessarily got full access…
On the podcast, Strictly star Ore, 39, revealed he has battled a porn addiction since the age of nine, which has ‘destroyed his life from the inside out’. He stated that it was only 18 months ago that he ‘escaped my addiction’
In the years following his winning stint on the BBC show Strictly his nine-year marriage to ex-wife Portia broke down – pictured together in 2016
‘Wanting to find a way to address that intrigue, wanting to find ways of that awakening, wanting to replicate it or find it whether it was on television or in magazines…
‘This is the problem with this form of addiction that even I could understand at 10. It’s so shameful. We can’t talk about it because there is a perceived nature to it that is everything that we hate, everything that we despise.’
Ore, who was bought up in Dorset, said his upbringing with his strict father meant he could never tell his family about his addiction, citing the example of one of his siblings being caught smoking at school.
He explained how his father, who lived and worked in Nigeria as a lawyer, told the family that should anything like that happen again that they would all be ‘removed’ from the UK and would be ‘educated and raised in Nigeria under his rule and his roof, for a nine, ten year old that is life over as you know it.’
Ore, who was bought up in Dorset, said his upbringing with his strict father meant he could never tell his family about his addiction – pictured with his father
Ore admitted his father, who died in 2023, ‘ruled by fear’ and growing up he felt like he had to hide his creativity as well as what he now understands to be his ADHD.
He explained that even when he reached adulthood the ‘shame’ of his addiction meant he never told anyone.
‘I already said the people that I love most in my life were the women in my life, the ones that stay. But what you’re seeing is so conflicting to that,’ he said. ‘The battle that I was facing didn’t become so overwhelming that it took over for what I knew to be true.’
‘I had two sisters, a mother that I loved. I knew I couldn’t share this with them because I knew it was so conflicting to the people that were most important to me. And so I have to, without knowing that I’ve fought against addiction, find a way to hide it. And it’s very isolating.’
‘It was something that I just knew to be me. Just a part of me. Something that I would always go to to feel. If you ever felt worthless, if you ever felt rejected. It was always a thing’.
Ore shot to widespread fame when he landed a spot on the 2016 series of Strictly Come Dancing, winning the show with Joanne Clifton
