BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Katya Jones 'can't bear it' as she issues fresh update on Wynne row

Katya appeared on BBCshow It Takes Two on Monday night where she discussed the incident, which caused controversy this weekend.

Katya Jones has said she "can't bear it" as she broke her silence on the Wynne Evans controversy after a "grope" video went viral. Katya appeared on BBC show It Takes Two on Monday night where she discussed the incident, which caused controversy this weekend.

The Russian dancer furiously defended her show partner on It Takes Two on October 14. The 35-year-old spoke out after the GoCompare face was seen with his hand around Katya's waist over the weekend, in a moment which alarmed viewers.

Katya said it was "a stupid joke that had gone wrong". Speaking on the Strictly spin-off on Monday night, Katya told host Fleur East she "can't bear" the fan frenzy that's followed. She replied: "Sorry Fleur, sorry. I will get on to dancing I promise.

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"But can you at least let us get something out of the way that I feel overshadowed our performance for absolutely no reason." Katya said: "Quite frankly, I actually can't bear sitting here watching this man being portrayed as someone he's not and in fact it couldn't be further away from the truth.

"I have to make this absolutely clear that this whole incident with the hand and the high five on Saturday night, it was an inside joke between Wynne and I. Was it a silly joke? Yes. Was it a bad joke? Yes." Wynne added: "Yeah, I watched it back and I can see how people may have misinterpreted it."

Katya continued: "However it was a joke and even the idea that it made me feel uncomfortable or offended in any way is total nonsense. And those that have doubts, you guys have got it wrong. So, hopefully this will be the end of it and can you just keep making me smile please because my Sunday was pretty boring without you making me belly laugh."

Wynne told his fans on social media: "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.

"It was a stupid joke that went wrong, OK? We thought it was funny. It wasn't funny. It was been totally misinterpreted." The broadcaster then gushed over his "brilliant friendship" with the Russian and added: "Everything's on Katya’s socials.

"She's talked about it."