The husband of celebrated ballroom dancer and former Strictly Come Dancing coach Jane Bullock has revealed he may eventually be forced to sell their home to cover the enormous cost of the round-the-clock care she now requires after suffering a devastating stroke.

Jane, who spent years coaching professional dancers and helping nurture talent within the ballroom world, collapsed at the Wolverhampton home she shares with husband Warren on August 10, 2025, shortly after finishing teaching a dance class.

Before the stroke, Jane had been fit, active and deeply involved in the dance school she and Warren had built together over more than three decades.

But her life changed in an instant.

The stroke left Jane with only half of her sight and no movement on the left side of her body. She is now frequently confined to a hospital-style bed at home and needs assistance with many of the most basic tasks of everyday life.

For Warren, watching the woman he has shared his life and passion for dancing with become so dependent on others has been heartbreaking.

He described the transformation in Jane’s life as “completely changed”, while admitting that the past year had been incredibly difficult for both of them.

Jane herself has been trying to understand the process of recovery from her bed, describing her brain as though the connections controlling her body had been physically broken.

“Someone said to me it’s like you need a light switch in your head and you need to press the light switch to activate all the nerves, all the wires, and link them all back together again,” she explained.

“Because all the wires in my head are broken.”

Her husband knows just how close he came to losing her altogether.

Following the stroke, Jane spent most of the month on life support and required the assistance of a ventilator.

Warren recalled believing that his wife was going to die.

He said the experience was terrifying, particularly because there was little he could do except wait and hope that she would survive.

But amid the darkest moments, Jane found a way to communicate something that Warren will never forget.

Despite having extremely limited movement remaining in one of her hands, she began using it to spell out three simple words on the palm of her husband’s hand.

“I love you.”

For Warren, that tiny gesture became a powerful reminder of the woman still fighting inside the body that had been so dramatically affected by the stroke.

After eight months away from home, Jane was finally able to return to the house she and Warren had shared for years.

Yet returning home did not mean life could go back to normal.

Instead, Warren was confronted with the enormous reality of providing 24-hour care for his wife.

He admitted that before Jane returned, he had not fully understood just how physically and emotionally demanding caring for someone around the clock could be.

“I didn’t realise the amount of work it would be, because some nights we’d get no sleep at all,” he said.

Jane’s stroke has affected her ability to use the toilet and has caused problems with her bladder and bowels. She also has Crohn’s disease, which has added another layer of difficulty to an already exhausting situation.

There are nights when Warren can find himself getting up every hour to help his wife.

The lack of sleep has inevitably taken its toll.

“It’s difficult and it’s also helping her to eat, helping her to drink – it’s relentless,” he explained.

The financial burden has become just as relentless.

Jane requires five physiotherapy sessions every week. Two are provided through the NHS, but Warren pays privately for another three in an effort to give his wife the best possible chance of recovering movement and independence.

Then there is the cost of carers, which Warren says currently amounts to £1,640 every week.

For a couple who have spent their lives building a business around their shared love of dance, the scale of those expenses has left Warren facing an impossible choice.

He has admitted that selling their home could eventually become a “last resort” if he cannot continue meeting the cost of Jane’s care.

“Noboby’s got a spare £2,000-a-week coming in… and there’s just no way I could cope on my own,” Warren said.

The couple have since received an extraordinary show of support from people who have followed their story.

In June, Warren launched a GoFundMe campaign to help pay for Jane’s ongoing care, and donations have now passed £71,000.

The response has come from people not only in Britain but from around the world, leaving Warren “genuinely shocked” and “incredibly grateful”.

For someone who has spent decades teaching and encouraging dancers, the support has provided a reminder of how many lives Jane and Warren have touched.

But Warren has also used their experience to raise wider questions about the cost of long-term care and the pressure placed on families when a loved one suddenly becomes dependent on extensive support.

He believes the government needs to recognise that circumstances such as Jane’s could happen to anyone.

“The government doesn’t have enough money to pay for care like this for everybody that needs it,” Warren said.

“Then there has to be some bigger contribution to that government fund because who knows who’s going to need it.”

His comments reflect a concern that extends beyond his own circumstances.

A serious illness or sudden injury can transform a household almost overnight, leaving families having to navigate not only the emotional consequences but also the practical and financial demands of rehabilitation, carers, specialist equipment and ongoing treatment.

For Warren, there is little time to think about the bigger picture when each day brings another list of tasks.

He has nevertheless tried to remain positive.

One of his simplest sources of comfort has been spending time with the couple’s dogs, whose presence offers a small sense of normality during a period when almost everything else has changed.

Even ordinary affection between husband and wife has become more complicated.

“Jane’s in a hospital bed, with rails on the side,” Warren said. “So you can’t really even cuddle properly, not like the way we did before.”

“It has been really hard, but not as hard as it has been for her.”

That distinction says much about Warren’s attitude throughout Jane’s recovery.

While he has spoken openly about exhaustion, money worries and the possibility of having to sell the couple’s home, he remains focused on what Jane herself has endured.

Their lives have long been intertwined with dance.

The pair established ZigZag Dance Factory at their home in 1994, creating a school that has attracted aspiring dancers from around the world.

Their work also brought them to television, with both Jane and Warren appearing in the Netflix reality series Baby Ballroom, which followed the lives of young dancers and the adults helping them develop their skills.

For decades, their home was therefore not simply somewhere they lived.

It was also a place of work, creativity and community.

Now, it has become something very different: a place where Warren is attempting to create a safe environment for Jane to recover while managing the demanding reality of round-the-clock care.

And amid all the medical appointments and physical challenges, Warren has also tried to preserve small pieces of the life Jane had before her stroke.

Jane was known for taking great pride in her appearance and had always been fashionable.

So last month, Warren decided to take on a task he probably never expected would fall to him: dyeing his wife’s hair.

“I’ve probably not done a brilliant job,” he admitted. “But I went for it.”

The result may not have been perfect, but the intention was.

Warren later took Jane to Wow Hair in Wolverhampton, believing that simply getting her out of the house could provide a welcome distraction.

“It was just to try and make her feel a bit like she used to, just to give her a bit of a lift,” he said.

“She’s always been very fashionable and takes a lot of care over her appearance. I just wanted to make her feel nice, really.”

For a woman whose life once revolved around movement, music and dance, those small moments of normality may carry particular significance.

Jane’s recovery is still ongoing, and there is no simple timetable for restoring what the stroke took away.

For Warren, the hope is that continued physiotherapy, professional care and determination can help rebuild some of the connections Jane described as broken wires inside her head.

But for now, the couple are taking each day as it comes.

The financial pressure remains enormous, and the possibility of selling their home hangs over them as a last resort.

Yet alongside the uncertainty, there is also the extraordinary support of strangers, the devotion of a husband who refused to give up, and Jane’s own determination to keep communicating and fighting her way back.

Eight months after collapsing following a dance class, the ballroom dancer who once helped others find their movement is now learning how to find hers again.

And for Warren, every small sign of progress is another reason to keep going.