Walsh will face ‘dance of shame’ for Strictly audience, says judge

SEANN Walsh and Katya Jones will be performing a “Dance of Shame” on Strictly Come Dancing at the weekend, judge Craig Revel Horwood has said.

The comedian, who has been publicly dumped by his girlfriend, and his professional partner have both apologised after they were pictured kissing in the street.

They will be back in the spotlight on tomorrow’s show with a Charleston.

Straight-talking Horwood told The Jonathan Ross Show: “My take was keep them in the show, make them do the Dance of Shame, if you like.”

The judge added: “It’s really important that, if this does happen to you, you face up to it.

“You either, as they’ve done, apologise, which is absolutely fine. But get on with the job and show people what you’re made of and show people ‘okay, this is what I did, I’ve been employed to do this job, I’m going to go on, do the job, get on with it and do it well and do it professionally’.”

Horwood described the socalled Strictly curse, which has been blamed for many relationship break-ups, “as a blessing, actually ... when you think of the success stories”.

But he said the Walsh and Jones kiss was “very different because one person is married, the other one had a girlfriend”.

He told the ITV show: “People ... if they are in love or are married, end up being absolutely faithful to one another because of that love...

“There has to be something wrong in your relationship before it all goes awry.” Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood (top) and contestants Seann Walsh and Katya Jones

Horwood said the pair’s dancing had improved last weekend “but I would not put that down to a snog at the back of a pub. I would put it down to hard work and having to act through the dance and tell that story.”

Chat show host Ross quipped that Jones and Walsh will be dancing with a “sheet between them” tomorrow.

Horwood replied: “I wanted to see the rumba (which they were previously tipped to be performing), the dance of love, I’m sure everyone wants to see that. That’s one of my favourite dances. You have to act through it.”

Walsh is favourite to get the boot from the show on Sunday.

But head judge Shirley Ballas hopes viewers “judge the dancing and not the relationship or anything else, that it’s purely down to what they see on the viewing on a Saturday evening”.