Strictly Come Dancing: Seann Walsh and Katya Jones put on a defiant display after kiss scandal… as Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman reference awkward cheating pictures
Seann Walsh and Katya Jones returned to the Strictly Come Dancing dancefloor on Saturday night following their week from hell amid a cheating scandal.
The funnyman, 32, and Russian dancer, 29, put on a defiant display after they were caught locking lips in a drunken clinch last Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Strictly presenters Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman decided to get rid of any awkwardness during the show as they referenced the kiss scandal in their opening speech.
They’re back: Seann Walsh and Katya Jones returned to the Strictly Come Dancing dancefloor on Saturday night following their week from hell amid a cheating scandal and kiss pictures
They said: ‘The contestants have been eating, sleeping and breathing dance… other than that, it’s been a quiet week, other than the odd headline.’
The images, which emerged on Sunday, led to the demise of Seann’s long-term relationship with Rebecca Humphries and added strain onto Katya’s marriage to Neil Jones.
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Ahead of throwing themselves into performing the Charleston – a dance reportedly chosen by bosses to diminish any sexiness in their routine, the duo made their way defiantly down the stairs – linking arms as they playfully threw their arms in the air.
While Katya liked a tweet on Twitter from a fan supporting the duo and hitting out at ‘hypocrites’ before her debut, it read: ‘Even if @seannwalsh and @Mrs_katjones forget their steps tonight they’ll still get my vote, you bunch of hypocrites! Come on @bbcstrictly you’re much better than this.’
Cheeky: Meanwhile, Strictly presenters Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman decided to get rid of any awkwardness during the show as they referenced the kiss scandal in their opening speech
Hitting back: Katya liked a tweet on Twitter from a fan supporting the duo and hitting out at ‘hypocrites’ ahead of her appearance on the dance show
Strictly fans were left aghast when images came to light showing the couple enjoying a steamy kiss in the street following a boozy, post-training night out and on Seann’s ex-girlfriend Rebecca’s birthday, where she waited at home alone.
On Wednesday’s edition of Strictly sister show It Takes Two Katya apologised to ‘everyone it hurt and involved’, but said she and husband Neil were ‘absolutely fine’.
‘Obviously I apologise, and I can’t apologise enough to everyone who it hurt and involved,’ she said.
‘But, the main thing, me and Neil are absolutely fine and that’s what matters to me the most right now and focusing on my job and doing it as professionally I can.’
Shocking: Ahead of throwing themselves into performing the Charleston – a dance reportedly chosen by bosses to diminish any sexiness in their routine, the duo made their way defiantly down the stairs – linking arms
Seann, whose girlfriend ended their five-year relationship after the incident, added: ‘I think that, obviously I’m sorry for the hurt that I’ve caused.
‘We were getting on well, we were having fun. We had a couple of drinks and made a huge mistake and I regret it deeply.’
Reflecting on his separation, he added: ‘I made a mistake, which I’m very sorry for – sorry for the hurt that I’ve caused. You never think about the extent of the damage that you’re going to do, in a moment of, you know the mistake that you’ve made.
‘I’m not perfect, far from it. Our relationship wasn’t perfect. That doesn’t mean I wanted it to end the way it finally did, and I’m very sorry for that.
‘I feel it’s also important for me to say that the people that know me the most, that love me, they know that I am not the person I’m being portrayed as. I’m still sorry for what I did, but it’s very important for me to get that out there.’
Rebecca publicly dumped Seann in a lengthy social media statement, heaping further condemnation on the comic by revealing his passionate kiss with Katya happened on her birthday, while she sat alone in their London flat.
Taking to Twitter on Monday evening, she wrote: ‘Those pictures were taken on October 3rd. It was my birthday. I was alone at home when Sean texted at 10pm saying the two of them were going for one innocent drink.
‘We spoke and I told him, not for the first time, that his actions over the past three weeks had led me to believe something inappropriate was going on.
Drama: The images, which emerged on Sunday, led to the demise of Seann’s long-term relationship with Rebecca Humphries and added strain onto Katya’s marriage to Neil Jones
‘He aggressively, and repeatedly, called me a psycho/nuts/mental. As he has done countless times throughout our relationship when I’ve questioned his inappropriate, hurtful behaviour.
‘But – this whole business has served to remind me that I am a strong, capable person who is now free; and no victim.
‘I have a voice and will use it by saying this to any woman out there who deep down feels worthless and trapped with a man they love: Believe in yourself and your instincts.
‘It’s more than lying. It’s controlling. Tell some very close friends who, if they’re anything like my wonderful network, will swoop in and take care of the logistics and of you.’
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