STRICTLY SHIRLEY SPARKLES
SHOWING the so-called “Strictly curse” has not affected their relationship, Katya and Neil Jones move in for a tender kiss.
Strictly pro Katya sparked fears for her marriage in October when she was snapped kissing her celebrity dance partner Seann Walsh outside a pub.
Comedian Seann’s girlfriend of five years, actress Rebecca Humphries, 31, dumped him after the pictures emerged.
But Katya and Neil, her British husband of five years, looked happy wrapping their arms around each other at the Macmillan Cancer Support Winter Gala at the Dorchester Hotel in London’s Mayfair on Wednesday.
Katya, 29, looked ravishing in a floor-length red satin gown and Neil was dapper in a classic tuxedo and bow tie.
Neil, 35, said the pair had a “beautiful” night at the event, which raises hundreds of thousands of pounds each year for cancer sufferers and their families.
Katya and Seann, 32, were later booted off the BBC One show but it seems she and Neil have weathered the storm.
Meanwhile Strictly head judge Shirley Ballas whisked her mother Audrey, 81, to the Macmillan gala.
Shirley, 58, wearing a bejewelled pink frock, said she was “so proud” to bring Audrey, who is herself battling cancer.
The pair, who speak at least four times a day on the phone, later jumped into a taxi giggling after their big night out.
Earlier, Shirley revealed she “learned to be a nurse” after Andrey’s cancer diagnosis earlier this year and she and son Mark, 32, supported her decision not to undergo chemotherapy.
Shirley said: “She’s a trouper and we are dealing with it.”