BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Wynne Evans shares biggest concern after backlash over Katya Jones joke

BBC Strictly Come Dancing star Wynne Evans has opened up on his biggest concern ahead of this week's performance, after facing an 'inside joke' backlash with partner Katya Jones.

Strictly Come Dancing's Wynne Evans has opened up about his biggest fear for the upcoming performance on the show.

Following backlash from Strictly Come Dancing viewers over a misunderstood "inside joke" with his dance partner Katya Jones, leaving some fans thinking he'd made her uncomfortable - an idea she has firmly refuted - the pair are steaming ahead with rehearsals.

With a Rumba to Dame Shirley Bassey's hit 'This is My Life' scheduled for the show's eagerly-awaited Icons week, Wynne voiced his rehearsal jitters on It Takes Two, admitting: "Rumba I'm enjoying but I don't know if I'm doing it right. I've got concerns about the hips. The hips, the hips, the hips."

Cheering him on, Katya said, "The hips are getting looser. Wynne's got beautifully shaped long legs so if we can put the legs with the hips, it'll be perfection. Can we get there by Saturday, who knows?"

Facing an uphill battle with the rumba, Wynne candidly revealed his feelings in an Instagram Q&A with his followers, mentioning: "I don't know. I don't look at what's coming up. I just have to focus on getting through this week. I'm now the oldest and the fattest, so the fact I've made it this far is incredible", reports the Express.

"So just focus on this week and getting through this week and then we'll see if I'm there next week. There's a lot of hips in the rumba, I may have actually discovered where my hips are." He had previously shared that he was "heartbroken" by how the audience perceived their playful banter.

"I'm absolutely heartbroken by the things that have been written about me in the last 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," he said.

"It was a stupid joke that went wrong, okay? We thought it was funny. It wasn't funny. It has been totally misinterpreted. Everything's on Katya's socials. She's talked about it. She's explained that it was a joke."

He continued: "She wasn't offended in the least. She doesn't feel uncomfortable. We've got a brilliant friendship, an absolutely tight friendship, and I'm sorry if anybody was offended by it, but it was a joke. And that's all there is. There is no real story, really. I feel weird apologising because I feel like I've not really done anything."

Last week, it was exclusively revealed by the Mirror earlier that Wynne, 52, had also been accused of making the "crude" joke while he was having his make-up done before the launch show. Sources claim that the opera singer jested that the folds of his double chin looked like a vagina.

No official complaints were made but some staff were less than pleased, it was reported. A source said: "It was a bit of a vulgar dad joke [...] Wynne clearly didn't mean any offence, but you have to be a little bit careful these days."

A source close to Wynne said the joke was self-deprecating and made in a private conversation with a make-up artist. At least one other person was in the room. But the source claimed that the make-up artist was not offended. This week, Wynne and Katya will be back on the dancefloor for Strictly's Icons Week.

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