At the end of 2016, WWE began a storyline with James Ellsworth and Carmella. Several months later and the partnership is still going strong on Smackdown Live. It has certainly been an odd storyline so far, which has included Carmella keeping Ellsworth on a leash.

Ellsworth was recently a guest on the ‘Dinner With The King’ podcast hosted by Jerry Lawler. During the podcast he gave some insight into how their partnership developed:

It turns out that it was Carmella’s idea to put them together:

“I think it was last year at the European tour in November, she came to me and said, ‘Hey, I have this idea about putting you with me whenever you’re done with the Dean Ambrose and AJ stuff comes to an end, I have this idea to pitch to them. They put you with me, you fall in love with me, and I use that to my advantage to win matches and get me to the women’s title. I said yeah, that would be a great idea. I didn’t know her much back then. She went to Vince, and she pitched right to Vince, and Vince loved it. It’s ten, going on eleven months that we’ve been on TV together”

He also spoke about their friendship behind the scenes:

“We are good friends. We text all the time. She’s a very, very smart girl, and she’s easy to talk to. We get along great.”

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