Strictly Come Dancing's Katya Jones and Wynne Evans to dance sexy salsa after 'grope' claim

Strictly Come Dancing's Katya Jones and Go Compare advert prima Wynne Evans volition guarantee their sexy salsa regular volition beryllium 'fun for each the family' aft defending their 'injoke' caused 'grope' claims

Go Compare vocalist Wynne Evans insists helium and his Strictly Come Dancing creation spouse Kaya Jones volition proceed to beryllium “slapstick” contempt criticisms of their “joke that went wrong”.

The brace volition execute a sexy salsa this week conscionable a fortnight aft they were forced to support their antics connected the show. This weekend’s amusement volition person a Halloween theme, and Wynne promises to marque definite it is “fun for each the family”.

Earlier this month, Katya was seen moving Wynne’s manus astir her midriff, which prompted viewers to assertion helium had made her consciousness “uncomfortable”. But Katya, 35, insisted she was not offended, clarifying the brace enjoyed “inside jokes” together.

Now, speaking astatine the Daily Mirror’s Pride of Britain awards, Wynne vows to proceed making radical laugh, though they would not repetition the gag that backfired. “I committedness we volition ever beryllium fun,” helium said. “We privation to beryllium amusive for each the family. We privation to bring a spot of slapstick comedy, and amusive for the kids. This week we’re doing the salsa and I committedness it volition beryllium fun.”

The Welsh opera singer, 52, adds of the erstwhile incident: “That was an successful gag that went incorrect - I emotion Katya.” Wynne has antecedently said helium was “heartbroken” by the backlash against them, and Katya added her spouse had been “portrayed arsenic idiosyncratic helium is not”.

She added: “So I person to marque this perfectly wide that this full incident, with the manus and the precocious 5 connected Saturday night, was an wrong gag betwixt Wynne and I. “Was it a silly joke? Yes, was it a atrocious joke? Yes.” Head justice Shirley Ballas has described dancer Katya arsenic “a small spot of a jokester”.

She added: “So I person to marque this perfectly wide that this full incident, with the manus and the precocious 5 connected Saturday night, was an wrong gag betwixt Wynne and I. “Was it a silly joke? Yes, was it a atrocious joke? Yes.” Head justice Shirley Ballas has described dancer Katya arsenic “a small spot of a jokester”.

Katya had besides eyerolled portion Wynne attempted to precocious 5 her, successful different successful gag betwixt the pair. A clip from Strictly’s unrecorded amusement connected Saturday, October 12, showing the incident, and 35-year-old Jones refusing a high-five from Evans, was wide shared connected societal media. “I’ve had the privilege of getting to cognize Wynne, I’ve known Katya for 25 years, she is simply a small spot of a jokester each circular that beauteous child, and helium is conscionable the astir phenomenal idiosyncratic you volition ever meet.”

Last week saw the mates execute a “bouncy” quickstep together, which justice Anton Du Beke said “it’s a beauteous show, erstwhile you dance”, portion Motsi Mabuse called it “exquisite”. Shirley added it was “joyous”, portion Craig Revel Horwood providing criticism, saying the show was “dishevelled successful places”.

This year’s bid - the 20th day of the amusement - has seen heightened scrutiny of the couple’s relationships aft past year’s contestant Amanda Abbington made complaints astir her nonrecreational creation partner, Giovanni Pernice. Chaperones person been enactment successful spot down the scenes, and caller payment officers person been introduced.

The BBC apologised to Abbington and said: “We person assessed the complaints and we person upheld some, but not all, of the complaints made.” Strictly Come Dancing volition instrumentality for a Halloween peculiar connected Saturday astatine 6.25pm, with the results amusement connected Sunday astatine 7.20pm connected BBC One and iPlayer.

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