Helen Skelton and Gorka Marquez have had their first post-Strictly Come Dancing reunion, much to the delight of fans and before their 'split' as Helen dances with someone else on the show's live tour.
It's still less than a month since Helen and Gorka went for glory in the Strictly final, missing out on victory to newly crowned champions Hamza and Jowita, although they did finally achieve their big aim of getting a perfect score, with their first 40 out of 40 coming as reward for the reprise of their fabulous Couple's Choice routine.
Strictly fans were dealt a blow at the end of last year when both Gorka and fellow pro dancer and fan favourite, Giovanni Pernice were both missing from the confirmed line-up for the upcoming arena tour. And what made Gorka's absence all the more puzzling for fans to get their heads round was the fact that Helen's picture was on the tour poster, with it then being confirmed that she'd be partnered by Kai Widdrington.
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All those who loved watching Helen and Gorka's partnership flourish in the Strictly ballroom were gutted they wouldn't be dancing together on tour, so there were delighted to see them back together in a short video they both shared on their Instagram stories. With Helen still out of shot, Gorka teased his many followers that he'd 'bumped into someone' in Manchester, before Helen then appeared and joked: "Bumped into? I'm stalking him!" and Gorka shouted: "long time catch up!"
Helen and Gorka's reunion came after she paid tribute to him on Instagram in a touching post on Sunday evening, before she gets stuck into Strictly tour rehearsals. Helen shared memories from the Strictly final and told fans that one of her reasons for doing so was because '"there’s about to be a whole lot of strictly tour spam that doesn’t involve @gorka_marquez and I need to mark this chapter with an acknowledgement and appreciation of my wingman."
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