Katya Jones' net worth and secret life as millionaire's daughter as she's rumoured for Strictly axe

Strictly Come Dancing prima Katya Jones has been named among those perchance facing the axe from the BBC amusement aft claims producers privation a 'fresh start' pursuing a arguable year

Strictly's Katya Jones could look the axe amid caller plans to shingle up the existent stars pursuing a unsmooth twelvemonth for the BBC show. The 35-year-old nonrecreational dancer and choreographer has impressed judges and audiences alike with her footwork since joining the BBC line-up successful 2016.

She was antecedently partnered with person Ed Balls and comedian Seann Walsh, and is present paired with Welsh opera vocalist Wynne Evans for the 2024 series. But this could beryllium her past season, with a amusement root allegedly confirming a shake-up with the professionals is looming.

Nadiya Bychkova, Neil Jones, Karen Hauer, Gorka Marquez and Katya Jones are the 5 names that volition reportedly person to telephone it quits and bent up their dancing shoes. But distant from the show, conscionable however overmuch bash you cognize astir the beingness of the nonrecreational dancer?

Katya was calved successful the municipality of Sestroretsk adjacent St Petersburg successful Russia and began dancing and gymnastics grooming from a young age. The dancer besides has a adjacent enslaved with her family, including her millionaire father.

Andrey Sokolov is simply a elder lipid institution executive, portion her mother, Tatiana Kim, is simply a postgraduate from the Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. Tatiana is Korean, and her ancestors originate from Sakhalin, a Pacific island.

Her parents often sojourn the UK to walk clip with Katya. Andrey and Tatiana person been unneurotic for 40 years, with Tatiana posting a loving tribute to her hubby successful 2019 connected their 35th anniversary.

Translated from Russian, she wrote: "For 35 years agone successful the comic registry bureau of Sestroretsk we became hubby and wife. Despite galore circumstances, intrigues and adjacent ridicule.

"A miss from a superior Korean clan who did not o.k. of marriages extracurricular the nationality, and a promising blue-eyed feline from a household of Soviet doctors, we made a committedness to beryllium determination successful grief and joy. We loved each different and what we created. Against the backdrop of the illness of the country, we silently maintained our household world, similar each our friends, who are present blessed successful their families… Just sharing my happiness with everyone."

Katya antecedently admitted that her parent thinks she'll determination backmost location eventually. Chatting to the Mirror, she said: "My household is truly adjacent truthful it is hard for me. My Mum says she inactive cannot get utilized to this feeling that I americium here. She inactive thinks 1 time I volition travel backmost home."

Katya Jones' nett worthy remains somewhat a mystery, but immoderate sources suggest it could beryllium arsenic precocious arsenic £3.8million. Seann Walsh's vocation was near successful tatters erstwhile helium appeared connected Strictly backmost successful 2018, acknowledgment to being caught connected camera kissing his nonrecreational spouse Katya, who was joined to chap pro Neil Jones astatine the time. Seann was besides successful a semipermanent narration with histrion Rebecca Humphries, who helium lived with astatine the time.

The brace were caught kissing extracurricular the Duke of York successful Marylebone successful October 2018. His spouse Rebecca revealed that she had agelong suspected thing was going connected betwixt the comic and his joined partner, and claimed that he'd branded her "nuts" erstwhile she raised her concerns with him.

In 2019, a twelvemonth connected from the infamous buss scandal, Katya and Neil Jones called clip connected their six-year marriage. Despite speculation, Neil has clarified that the Seann Walsh smooch wasn't the catalyst for their split. Chatting to The Sun successful 2020, Neil revealed: "We recovered that we'd grown isolated similar radical do, truthful we were like, 'OK, let's spell our abstracted ways'. We are fortunate that we don't person kids."

"It had thing to bash with what happened [with Seann]. We were moving successful antithetic directions but we are friends again now. Katya is simply a large miss and I've got thing atrocious to accidental astir her."

Discussing the anticipation of dancers being axed, the insider told The Sun: "The reappraisal of the line-up has ever been astir making a caller start, and that was ever going to beryllium affected by which dancers performed good this series. The feeling is that the Strictly troupe is made up of immoderate fading stars, portion others are rising stars. And successful galore cases determination are definite characters whose shoes tin easy beryllium filled with younger, up-and-coming counterparts.

"It’s harsh but it’s conscionable portion of the accepted turnover of showbusiness. Of the 5 names successful the premix astir each of them went retired successful the archetypal fractional of the series, which is precise overmuch seen arsenic a landmark constituent for Strictly.

"It couldn’t person travel astatine a worse clip for them, due to the fact that Strictly bosses consciousness they request to marque immoderate large changes, adjacent if that means large names leaving."