A STRICTLY Come Dancing expert has forecast a fan-favourite will be given the chop following this week – insisting fans want rid of show “scandal.”
The BBC One programme returns to screens tonight for Week Five – in what is Strictly‘s 20th anniversary series.
Yet those in the know have predicted a huge shock when Sunday’s results show rolls around – claiming the famous face “doesn’t have the skills to go that far.”
Dr Jill Jacobs, speaking to The Sun on behalf of BetVictor, also exclusively claimed show fans “don’t want scandal” – and therefore may well vote Wynne Evans, 52, and Katya Jones, 35, out.
The duo were the talk of Strictly last week – and it wasn’t purely for their Tango routine.
Opera singer Wynne was seen with his hand around professional partner Katya‘s waist during the show – but later explained it was “a stupid joke that had gone wrong.”
He told how he was “heartbroken” over the backlash, which was additionally fuelled when she refused to high-five the Go Compare advert star – sparking rumours of a fall-out.
Dr Jill, a former professor for dance movement, spoke about the pair being sent home and told us: “The question is only when.
“If people feel that way and they’re not happy about how the pair is, they’re feeling that the pair is a negative.
“While Pete and Jowita, whether they’re romantically involved, this is joy, this is happiness. They are sharing this. They’re bringing this to the show. We love it.
“It’s joy and happiness.
“We don’t want scandal. We don’t want negativity.
“Depending on how this is, maybe people don’t agree with me on this one. If this has a negative effect.
“Wynne doesn’t, for me, have the skills to go that far, just the physicality of it. It’s just a matter of, is it going to be this week?
“I wouldn’t say on dancing skills, it should be Punam if so.
“But I think it could be Wynne this week.
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Tom Dean MBE and Nadiya Bychkova
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Wynne Evans and Katya Jones
“We’ll see how the viewers feel. For me, personally, it will be Wynne.”
After Strictly‘s Week Four wrapped, Wynne and Katya were quick to issue a video apology and insisted their behaviour was all an innocent “inside joke”.
On Monday, Wynne took to his BBC Radio Wales show for a further raw reveal.
He told his listeners today: “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 partnership have been spotted looking downbeat as they headed to training.
