James Small, the former bad boy of South African rugby, has split up with Christina Storm, his long-time girlfriend who is one of Cape Town's top models.
The couple called it quits after being together for about four years.
Former Springbok wing Small said he did not want to talk about the break-up.
Storm has apparently promised to give details of their relationship to a women's magazine. She told Sunday Argus through her modelling agency that the break-up was a mutual decision.
Their relationship started with a posed French kiss during a steamy photographic fashion shoot for a women's magazine.
Before long it was obvious that more than just the camera had clicked and the chemistry between Small and Storm was just not an act for the photographer.
The start of their relationship was stormy, with Small's former girlfriend Loui Visser calling him a cheat who had affairs, including liaisons with two of her friends.