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Ashleigh Butler Clinches Crufts Win With Nacho And Reveals New Home With Partner

Social posts about a shared house signal steady momentum since her Britain’s Got Talent breakthrough.

Overview

  • Butler returned to Crufts to compete and present, and her dog Nacho won the Royal Kennel Club Medium Singles final.
  • She worked on the show’s broadcast team alongside Clare Balding, Claudia Winkleman, Radzi Chinyanganya, and commentator Jim Rosenthal.
  • Her boyfriend, performer Byron Witchell, supported her at the event and praised the win on Instagram.
  • Instagram Stories this week showed the couple holding new-house keys, a workout in a gym, and a champagne toast by a fireplace, pointing to a move-in together.
  • Butler first rose to fame by winning Britain’s Got Talent with Pudsey in 2012, later mourned Pudsey’s death in 2017, won at Crufts with successor Sully in 2018, and performed with Witchell in a 2025 Cinderella pantomime in Gravesend.