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Strictly’s Wynne Evans ‘heartbroken’ over viral ‘hand incident’

By Editorial Board Published October 14, 2024 4 Min Read
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Strictly’s Wynne Evans ‘heartbroken’ over viral ‘hand incident’

Welsh opera singer Wynne Evans has mentioned he’s “heartbroken” over ideas he made his skilled dance companion Katya Jones “uncomfortable” throughout Saturday night time’s Strictly Come Dancing.

Evans, 52, was captured on movie sliding his hand round Jones’s waist earlier than she promptly pushed it away.

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The second when Wynne Evans slid his hand round Katya Jones’s waist went viral. Pic: BBC

The second occurred whereas presenter Claudia Winkleman revealed that Strictly voting strains have been open for viewers to name, and shortly went viral.

A second clip of the pair exhibiting Evans – who is known for his function in GoCompare insurance coverage adverts – making an attempt to high-five Jones and getting rejected, was additionally extensively shared on social media.

Talking in regards to the viral moments on Monday on BBC Radio Wales, the place he presents a present, Evans mentioned: “I am completely heartbroken by the issues which have been written about me within the final day.

“It’s not nice to live in that time, but basically Katya and I are really, really close and we’re really good friends, and on Saturday night we made a stupid joke.

“It was a silly joke that went fallacious, OK? We thought it was humorous. It wasn’t humorous. It has been completely misinterpreted.”

He went on: “Every part’s on Katya’s socials. She’s talked about it. She’s defined that it was a joke. She wasn’t offended within the least. She does not really feel uncomfortable.

“We have got an excellent friendship, a fully tight friendship, and I am sorry if anyone was offended by it, nevertheless it was a joke. And that is all there’s. There is no such thing as a actual story, actually.

“I feel weird apologising because I feel like I’ve not really done anything.”

He agreed he’d “misjudged” the state of affairs however was “absolutely still up for” competing on the present.

Katya Jones with dance partner Wynne Evans .
Pic:BBC

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Pic:BBC

After the pair started trending on social media on the weekend, they posted a video collectively calling the high-five incident a “silly joke”.

Jones, 35, later responded on to the clip of her shifting Evans’s hand away from the center of her waist, calling it “a very silly, very silly – inside joke”.

She mentioned the thought it made her uncomfortable or offended was “complete nonsense” and “quite absurd”.

A member of the Strictly welfare crew is known to have checked in on the pair, with no additional motion deliberate.

Wynne Evans and Katya Jones.
Pic: BBC/PA

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Pic: BBC/PA

The couple danced the tango to ABBA’s Cash, Cash, Cash throughout Saturday night time’s present, reaching their highest rating thus far, 34 factors.

This season marks Strictly’s twentieth anniversary with a brand new solid of celebrities and a few adjustments, together with the presence of chaperones “at all times” throughout rehearsals, following quite a lot of accusations of bullying on the present.

Earlier this month the BBC apologised to former Strictly contestant Amanda Abbington, after they “upheld some, but not all” of her complaints about skilled dancer Giovanni Pernice’s behaviour throughout her time on Strictly.

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