Tessa Virtue and David Pelletier 2012 dating rumors allegedly stemmed from gossip that there had been a heated romance between the two that started way back in 2009. Now, the main question is whether or not Tessa Virtue's affair with David Pelletier was the real reason why Pelletier and his wife and long-time ice dancing partner Jamie Sale filed for divorce in 2010.
The Edmonton Journal was the first media outlet to break the news about Jamie Sale and David Pelletier's divorce after several years of being married. Back then the rumors of Tessa Virtue and David Pelletier's affair was not greatly publicized as both parties refused to reveal the main reason why they were separating.
"We've had an incredible partnership for the past 12 years and we look forward to that mutual respect and commitment continuing both on the ice and as we parent our son, Jesse. While this is always a difficult decision, we still share two of the most important parts of our lives in common, and for that reason we wanted it to be amicable and by mutual agreement," Jamie Sale said in a statement, diverting the attention to their decision to remain as skating partners despite their off-the-ice split.
The dating rumors between Tessa Virtue and David Pelletier was also concealed back then because Virtue was allegedly falling for her ice dancing partner Scott Moir.
Skating critics even commend Virtue and Moir's "connection" with each other. However, their long speculated romance was chopped off when Moir began to date another member of the Canadian figure skating team, reports Macleans.
Meanwhile, things were already taking a toll on Jamie Sale and David Pelletier despite their mutual agreement to remain ice dancing partners.
Fans who saw their first performance after their publicized split noticed how every move seemed to be a struggle unlike before. The two could barely look at each other in their performance, which made everything too painful to watch.
Local reports began to question the real reason behind the couple's divorce. Some even published that David started to become unfaithful in early 2009. Hence, providing a theorized reason why the two cancelled some of their shows that time.
In 2010, rumors about David Pelletier's affair with Tessa Virtue surfaced backed by theories that the two professional skaters had been secretly seeing each other since 2009.
It was not made clear whether they stopped seeing each other, but local and online gossip continued to talk about their affair, adding that Tessa Virtue and David Pelletier may have continued their affair after the latter's divorce to his wife.
Interestingly, it seems David wasn't the only one who aired out his dirty laundry as news about Jamie Sale's affair with Craig Simpson eventually surfaced not too long after her divorce with her long-time ice dancing partner.
Craig Simpson is also a professional skater, who happened to be Sales' partner in Battle of the Blades. Simpson was reportedly a divorced husband and a father to 3 kids, but Jamie didn't seem to mind his previous record.
In the peak of the disastrous feast on Sale and Pelletier's divorce, another shocking rumor was released: that Jamie was apparently pregnant with another man. But the said rumor turned out to be fraudulent.
Nevertheless, in 2013, Jamie Sale and Craig Simpson welcomed their healty baby girl, just a year after their marriage.
HuffingtonPost reports that Sale and Simpson met in 2009 while competing in the CBC program "Battle of the Blades," which somehow explains that it was very possible that their affair started then.
Meanwhile, Tessa Virtue and David Pelletier's dating rumors continued through 2012, but was gradually hushed to maintain Virtue's princess image on the ice.
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