Lewis Cope’s girlfriend reacts to Katya Jones dance as they top Strictly leaderboard

Lewis Cope’s girlfriend reacts to Katya Jones dance as they top Strictly leaderboard

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Lewis Cope scored the first 40 of the series in this year’s Strictly Come Dancing with a Couple’s Choice to Creep by Radiohead, and has been partnered with Katya Jones

Lewis Cope’s girlfriend has shared what she thought of the Emmerdale star’s perfect score dance and his Strictly Come Dancing partner Katya Jones.

Rachel Maya Lopez took to Instagram to gush about her “unbelievably talented” boyfriend’s dancing after the results show aired on Sunday (2 November).

She shared a video of Lewis and Katya after the show, talking about their perfect 40 score. This was the first 40 of the series and Lewis can be seen saying that he earned 20 and Katya earned 20. “Together, we’re 40,” Katya beamed.

Over the top of the clip, Rachel wrote: “These two absolutely UNBELIEVABLY TALENTED HUMANS are through to next week”. She also reposted a clip of the show where she can be seen screaming from the audience and captioned that with: “Sound off because I was very emotional and sounded like a whale moaning in pleasure”.

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Later sharing a pic of the dance to her stories, in which Lewis can be seen atop a piano that Katya is pretending to play, Rachel added: “I will never get over how unbelievable these two are. HISTORY WAS MADEEEEE on Saturday night”.

She then shared a clip of the dance itself and said it was “amazing” and implied the dance brought a tear to her eye. “I’m not crying you are. Ommmgggggg this is amazing”.

Rachel rounded off her series of posts with a sweet tribute to Ellie Goldstein, who is the latest celebrity to be eliminated from the show. “It was an absolute honour getting to meet this beautiful Earth angel on strictly”, Rachel posted. “Every single week there was nothing but pure joy filling that dance floor when @elliejg16_zebedeemodel stepped out onto that strictly stage.

“The whole room would vibrate. Ellie you are the most beautiful human being with the most beautiful family. Thank you for being you.” Ellie was eliminated during Sunday’s results show after being in the dance off against Balvinder Sopal.

Lewis and Rachel have been in a relationship for seven years. In a chat with The Sun, Lewis explained how Rachel is used to seeing him kiss other people and the Strictly curse has never been a conversation between them.

” Over the years I’ve had to kiss a lot of people on stage or onscreen, as an actor, so she’s used to me kissing boys actually, but it hasn’t been a problem. Katya and Rachel have all met, it’s]the Strictly curse] never been a conversation between us. “

The Strictly curse is the common name used when a Strictly pro and their celeb dance partner become romantically involved, leading to the break up of one or both of their previous relationships.

Katya has been at the centre of some Strictly curse drama before, as she was snapped kissing her celeb partner Seann Walsh on a night out, whilst he was in a relationship.

This year, some fans have been pushing curse rumours about fellow Strictly couple, Amber Davies and Nikita Kuzmin. Nikita’s girlfriend, Lauren, even took to TikTok to hit back at fans and encourage them to be “respectful” of the partners of dancers who just want to enjoy the show.

In the caption of the video, where she frowned at the camera whilst the words over the top said” comments saying ‘ I hope they get the strictly curse'”, she wrote:” Please be respectful to the real-life partners and let them have a good experience of the show too. “

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Source: Mirror

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