Katya Jones runs into Bruno Tonioli’s arms as the Strictly stars bump into each other
Katya Jones was seen rushing into Bruno Tonioli’s arms when the Strictly stars bumped into each other on Tuesday.
Professional dancer Katya, 32, and judge Bruno, 66, were both strolling separately in Leeds, where the popular BBC ballroom show’s tour is being performed for the next two nights.
Clearly delighted to see each other, the pair shared a hug and stopped for a chat.
Pals: Katya Jones was seen rushing into Bruno Tonioli’s arms when the Strictly stars bumped into each other on Tuesday
Surprise! Professional dancer Katya, 32, and judge Bruno, 66, were both strolling separately in Leeds, where the popular BBC ballroom show’s tour is being performed for the next two nights
Katya made sure to keep the chill at bay in a knee-length padded coat.
She tucked her glossy hair beneath a red beanie and was also sporting leggings in an identical shade.
Bruno also wrapped up beneath a black coat and cut a low-key figure in a white baseball cap.
It comes after Bruno was left red-faced when he accidentally groped his fellow judge Shirley Ballas during the Strictly Come Dancing tour in Birmingham on Sunday.
Quick chat: Clearly delighted to see each other, the pair shared a hug and stopped for a chat
Chic: Katya made sure to keep the chill at bay in a knee-length padded coat. She tucked her glossy hair beneath a red beanie and was also sporting leggings in an identical shade
The TV judge was giving a critique to last year’s Strictly winners Rose Ayling-Ellis and Giovanni Pernice after their tango when he made the slip.
Praising the dance partners for their ‘passion’, Bruno put his hands around Shirley, 61, to demonstrate a move but accidentally grabbed her breast.
Realising his mistake, he said: ‘Oh sorry my love, I apologise.’
Shirley burst out laughing at the mishap as fellow judge Craig Revel Horwood jokingly put his face in his hands.
As the laughs died down, host Janette Manrara said: ‘Are you OK, Shirley? OK, Bruno carry on with the dancing.’
Whoops: It comes after Bruno was left red-faced when he accidentally groped his fellow judge Shirley Ballas during the Strictly Come Dancing tour in Birmingham on Sunday
Bruno carried on with his praise, saying: ‘It was all exquisite, and the shape. What was so special, she gives meaning, intention, purpose to everything. You acted the dance, you acted it beautifully.’
Bruno missed out on judging last year’s Strictly as he chose to remain in America and judge Dancing With The Stars amid the coronavirus pandemic.
It comes after Shirley weighed in on romance rumours surrounding the current show tour as she was quizzed about the claims on Tuesday’s Lorraine.
Earlier this month, MailOnline exclusively revealed that Nadiya Bychkova had split from her fiancé last year, and the Slovenian dancer is now said to be dating fellow pro Kai Widdrington.
Coy: Strictly’s Shirley appeared to confirm tour romance rumours amid claims Nadiya Bychkova and Kai Widdrington are dating, as she appeared on Tuesday’s episode of Lorraine
Probed on rumours of secret tour romances, Shirley coyly alluded to tour romances but insisted that it ‘wasn’t her place to say’.
Lorraine Kelly, 62, probed: ‘I’m just wondering if you’re being sort of Auntie Shirley with all of this…. the romances… what’s going on? Everybody’s having a very nice time!’
To which Shirley responded: ‘You know, romancing and dancing; things you know…I don’t really know what’s going on to be honest.
‘It’s not my place to say who’s what, where and when. There’s always rumours you know that Lorraine.’
Hot new couple? Earlier this month, MailOnline exclusively revealed that Nadiya Bychkova had split from her fiancé and she is now said to be dating fellow pro Kai Widdrington
