STRICTLY STARS IN PARTY BAN
BUT CHARLES WILL BE DIRTY DANCING
STRICTLY’S professional dancers have been slapped with a 10pm curfew so they don’t get up to any more boozy hanky panky.
It has been imposed after comic Seann Walsh and his dance partner Katya Jones were pictured kissing outside a pub.
They have since apologised for their behaviour, which they have described as a “one-off drunken mistake”.
Now the BBC has warned the show’s pros to head straight home – not to the nearest watering hole – after they finish training sessions with their celebrity partners. They have all also been banned from attending late-night showbiz parties.
Former cricketer Graeme Swann explained: “I think the pros were told: ‘Wind your neck in’. And they were all very angry because they couldn’t go to a couple of functions that they wanted to.
“A curfew was placed upon them. So it’s very much like being in a team. If one person lets the side down...”
After the snogging scandal, Seann, 32, was dumped by his girlfriend, actress Rebecca Humphries.
Bash
But Katya’s husband Neil Jones – who is also a dancer on the show – is standing by her.
Last night a show insider said: “The dancers wanted to attend a late-night party on a Friday.
“It was suggested that it would not look good for them all to be seen out and about at a bash the night before the live BBC show.”
Earlier, Seann posted a video of his tough training sessions with Katya, 29, as they prepared for the quickstep in tonight’s show. The footage shows how strict his dance teacher is with him.
Seann also gives fans an insight into how he has had to change his eating habits during rehearsals, saying: “So the diet of a dancer – watermelon.
“It’s a very good fruit, no carbohydrates.”
But then Katya interrupts the video and shouts: “Seann where are you?”
Later, he shared a picture of himself dripping with sweat and wrote the word “HELP”.
Then, posting a photo of “flawless” Katya, he added: “Look at the difference”.
Strictly is tonight at 6.45pm on BBC One.