Strictly's fake groping scandal means Wynne Evans three times more likely to leave, bookies say

It was a load of viral nonsense but the knock-on effect is simply a flurry of currency connected the vocalist being sent location this weekend

Wynne Evans is 3 times much apt to get the footwear from Strictly Come Dancing successful the aftermath of the fake groping scandal, according to bookies.

Odds for the Welsh opera vocalist to beryllium sent location successful Sunday’s amusement person been slashed from 16/1 a week agone to 5/1 today. It comes aft Wynne, prima of the Go Compare ads, admitted to being “heartbroken” that his larking astir with pro spouse Katya Jones had been misinterpreted by immoderate arsenic sleazy. Clips shared online rapidly went viral and caused galore to beryllium outraged, contempt Katya rapidly insisting they’d been joking and she had not felt successful immoderate mode uncomfortable.

Since past she has been astatine pains to accent helium was not being handsy, arsenic the clip implied, and that they were conscionable just mucking astir arsenic they celebrated getting their highest people truthful acold (34) for their tango to Abba’s Money, Money, Money. Despite her making it crystal wide that it was each a large misunderstanding, bookies including Coral accidental it has had a knock-on effect. Across this week they person taken acold much currency from punters who deliberation his clip connected the programme mightiness beryllium up.

But it’s not each atrocious quality for Wynne, 52 - helium tin instrumentality bosom that the trumped-up contention has not made him the outright favourite to leave. His 5/1 likelihood inactive enactment him down erstwhile footballer Paul Merson, who is favourite for the chop astatine 11/10, and besides Dr Punam Krishan, who is 5/2. This play Wynne and Katya, 35, volition creation a quickstep to Electric Light Orchestra’s much-loved classical Mr Blue Sky. Speaking connected It Takes Two, Katya promised it would beryllium afloat of quality and “fun, fun, fun”.

Her words came aft she’d launched a furious defence of her partner, telling big Fleur East: “I really can't carnivore sitting present watching this antheral being portrayed arsenic idiosyncratic he's not and successful information it couldn't beryllium further distant from the truth. "I person to marque this perfectly wide that this full incidental with the manus and the precocious 5 connected Saturday night, it was an wrong gag betwixt Wynne and I. Was it a silly joke? Yes. Was it a atrocious joke? Yes."

The Russian pro besides admitted she had nary thought helium was going to execute the tango truthful good past weekend. “He took it to a full caller level - helium was a dancer I’d ne'er met,” she laughed. Wynne said that each the grooming notes she’d fixed him crossed the week had flashed done his caput and it each came unneurotic astatine the close moment. “She jumped into my arms aft and said ‘where did that travel from?’”

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