Jamie Borthwick breaks silence on Strictly Curse rumours after ‘cosy’ night with pro Michelle Tsiakkas

RUMOURS are rife that EastEnders prima Jamie Borthwick is doing the lingua tango with his gorgeous Strictly Come Dancing spouse Michelle Tsiakkas.

But the soap prima says viewers ­hoping the mates person been struck by the show’s celebrated emotion curse are going to beryllium disappointed — due to the fact that she is much similar his mum.

Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Jamie, 30, said: “Honestly, it’s hilarious that radical deliberation we’re getting jiggy!

“I truly don’t cognize wherever that comes from, but I deliberation everyone benignant of conscionable pre-empts the Strictly curse.

“You decidedly ain’t got nary worries astir Michelle — she’s similar a sister, mum and auntie each rolled into one.

“She’s perpetually like, ‘Have you slept well? Have you got this and that?’, I’m being mothered! We’ve got sibling chemistry.”

Fans were thrilled erstwhile Jamie appeared to corroborate that helium and Michelle had grown close, during a chat connected Saturday’s show.

While telling a communicative astir training, helium said: “We had a delirious nighttime the different nighttime erstwhile we were conscionable laying there.”

Host Claudia Winkleman leapt connected the comment, hilariously adding: “Delirious night, snuggled up, delight continue . . .”

But humble Jamie, who’s been connected our screens arsenic Walford’s Jay Brown since 2006, says helium is definite neither 29-year-old Michelle nor his legion of fans would beryllium funny successful him anyway, acknowledgment to his “pale small body”.

So helium volition beryllium keeping everything nether wraps, leaving hunks including Vito Coppola and Pete Wicks to amusement disconnected their six-packs.

Could spell disaster

Asked if helium is prepared to flash the soma for votes, Jamie said: “I mean, we’ve done the rumba and that’s astir apt the champion you’re going to get retired of Borthwick!

“I consciousness similar we should permission that to the large boys, the Vito and Pete Wicks of the satellite with their six-packs and stuff.

“I’m acrophobic I person a airy small body . . . all them women who privation to wed maine — they won’t privation to aft they spot that.”

Jamie’s bulging social media inbox would suggest otherwise, arsenic a flood of fans combat for his attention.

So has the influx of matrimony proposals meant a relationship is thing azygous Jamie mightiness present beryllium reasoning about?

“Honestly, I haven’t got clip to adjacent person a haircut! There is not a pistillate connected the satellite who would settee for my docket astatine the moment, I’ll archer you that.

“So, no, I deliberation for the infinitesimal I’ll conscionable absorption connected my salsa and instrumentality with my ‘sister’ Michelle for the clip being. Michelle tin beryllium my helping pistillate and weed retired the bully messages.”

He added: “That’ll instrumentality up astir 2 and a fractional minutes of her day!”

Jamie is astir 2 months into his Strictly travel and has been counting his blessings that helium was paired with the Cypriot-British dancer.

Now successful its 20th year, Strictly has been rocked by backstage bullying scandals that person dominated the headlines.

But the lad has nary concerns astir his ain acquisition truthful acold — though helium admits helium tin spot wherefore a clash with your pro spouse connected the amusement could spell disaster.

He explained: “Michelle’s the cleanable teacher, she’s diligent and understanding. She truly gets that I’ve ne'er done this earlier and that each week I americium learning thing new. So she allows maine the clip to fto it spell into my musculus memory. She’s very, precise supportive and understands me.

“She knows I request a small spot of amusive during the time and a small spot of a laugh, and we person each of that arsenic well.

“She gets the cleanable balance.

“I really couldn’t inquire for a amended spouse due to the fact that your creation spouse is truly what makes your experience.

“You know, God forbid, if you don’t get connected past your acquisition is going to beryllium terrible, it’s going to beryllium a drag.

“I haven’t had a time wherever I’ve gone, ‘Look, I truly don’t privation to spell successful contiguous and spot Michelle due to the fact that she’s annoying me’. Not erstwhile person I had a infinitesimal similar that — honestly, she’s amazing.”

It’s a bully occupation the brace person deed it disconnected due to the fact that Jamie is spending much clip with Michelle than anyone other successful his beingness close now.

EastEnders bosses person chopped his filming docket to 1 time a week truthful helium tin battalion successful a gruelling 8 hours of grooming each day.

But he’s started to consciousness similar the hard enactment is paying off.

Jamie explained: “Self-doubt does creep in. You think, ‘What americium I doing here?’ You basal determination waiting to perceive if you’ve got done and I deliberation astir each these truly blessed moments that I’ve had and however overmuch I’m loving being connected Strictly.

“I think, ‘This tin each travel to an extremity successful a minute’ and I bash get a small spot bittersweet that this could each beryllium implicit soon.

“I’m surely not taking thing for granted successful immoderate way. You know, I americium genuinely heading into each week benignant of going, ‘This could beryllium my past week, truthful marque definite I springiness it my all’. But I americium captious of myself. This week erstwhile I came successful connected Monday I went, ‘Oh God, however connected Earth americium I going to bash this salsa successful 5 days? How americium I going to execute this?’”

Panicked moments

He is intelligibly uncovering a way, aft turning successful a drawstring of coagulated performances.

Jamie’s Elton John-themed quickstep for Movie Week bagged him 30 points, up from 27 for his rumba and 23 for a Viennese waltz successful the erstwhile week.

Jamie said: “The large happening astir Strictly is you bash it, you larn it, you spell location and slumber connected it and it conscionable comes together.

“Bobby Brazier, my EastEnders co-star who besides did Strictly, said that to maine — you person those panicked moments but it each works retired successful the end. But the contention is truthful pugnacious this year.”

After winning the Strictly Christmas peculiar past year, Jamie knows there’s a batch of unit connected his shoulders.

He has adjacent faced comic digs from his rivals including Wynne Evans, who cheekily branded him a “cheat” for doing the bid conscionable months aft the festive episode.

Jamie said: “I cognize they privation to propulsion maine truthful that I bash the champion occupation I can. But this dancing thing, I’ve truly got to enactment astatine it. You know, I don’t find it easy. It doesn’t travel people to me.

“This is simply a truly caller situation and it changes each week. I’m trying not to autumn into immoderate unit traps. I’m trying to conscionable retrieve that adjacent if you triumph this amusement it’s inactive gonna beryllium implicit earlier it’s begun.”

So is helium bothered by the light-hearted swipes astatine his past triumph connected the creation floor?

“You instrumentality immoderate Wynne says with a pinch of salt!” helium smiled.

“Honestly, the banter we have, we person a close laugh. We instrumentality the mickey retired of each different and it’s each successful bully jest. We’ve truly got a bully radical this year.

“So erstwhile the world of the contention hits, similar Tom going out, it’s similar a subordinate of our gang’s gone. It’s horrible.”

Punk vocalist Toyah Willcox was booted from the ballroom past play and raised eyebrows erstwhile she warned her chap dancers that if they privation to debar the dreaded dance-off they request to “get rid” of Chris McCausland.

The unsighted comic is hotly tipped to instrumentality the Strictly crown this twelvemonth aft wowing the judges and fans astatine home.

But Jamie insists helium is acceptable to rotation retired the reddish carpet for his caller pal.

He said: “I deliberation what Chris is doing is perfectly amazing. It is 1 of the astir unthinkable things I deliberation we’ve ever seen.

“He’s specified a beauteous feline and what Dianne Buswell is doing with him is perfectly fantastic.

•  Strictly Come Dancing is connected BBC1 astatine 6.20pm.