Strictly’s Shayne Ward reveals he’s put his wedding on hold for second time to take part in show

STRICTLY Come Dancing prima Shayne Ward enactment his wedding connected clasp for a 2nd clip to fulfill his dancing dreams.

The erstwhile Corrie prima and his spouse Sophie Austin were owed to necktie the knot aboriginal this year.

This isn't the archetypal clip the mates pushed backmost their large time aft they had to cancel their ceremonial owed to Covid-19.

But it was Hollyoaks histrion Sophie who encouraged him to motion up to the show.

"It'll beryllium happening. Sophie and I were really looking astatine the extremity of this year, but we couldn't due to the fact that this unthinkable amusement happened," helium told The Mirror.

 "It was really Sophie who enactment maine guardant for the show. For galore years she's talked astir Strictly, she loves, loves the show, truthful each twelvemonth the euphony would travel connected and she'd whisper: 'You'd beryllium bully astatine this'."

"She ever had that content successful me, she'd say: 'I conscionable deliberation you'd truly bask it, and I privation radical to spot you'. This twelvemonth she said to me: 'Can I delight enactment your sanction forward?' and I said: 'Yeah' due to the fact that it felt similar the close time."

Shayne said joining Strictly was 1 of the "best things he's ever done".

His girl is pursuing successful his footsteps and is besides rehearsing for a creation competition.

But Shayne has precocious been deed with backlash from trolls who branded him "insufferable".

Shayne, 39, and his Strictly spouse Nancy Xu made their creation debut connected Saturday nighttime with a Samba to Stevie Wonder's Do I Do.

They scored 23 from judges Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke.

But immoderate viewers took to societal media to deed retired astatine Shayne pursuing the performance.

He aboriginal posted a lengthy connection slamming the claims and present he's deed backmost again.

Shayne reposted a photograph and connection connected Instagram from a instrumentality that read: "This is the Shayne Ward I've known and loved for astir 20 years.

"Who has been thing but kind, comic and precise caring towards everyone helium meets.

"If you knew his bosom oregon met him adjacent erstwhile you would deliberation doubly astir those nasty comments being said online.

"Why would you wanna effort and bring idiosyncratic other down that you've ne'er adjacent met conscionable due to the fact that you tin spot them enjoying themselves."

The follower added: "I anticipation nary of this gets to him and helium continues to beryllium the superstar that helium is."