Although they first met on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017, Gemma Atkinson and Gorka Marquez recently experienced conflict at their family home.
Gorka Marquez had a plea for Gemma Atkinson after a nighttime struggle. The couple, who met on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017, recently welcomed a new dog into their lives.
Shortly before Gorka’s Speakeasy tour with fellow Strictly professional Karen Hauer, the couple took goldendoodle puppy Benji home in May. While Gorka was away from the family home, Gemma revealed that the pup “fell like a shadow.”
Benji even began sleeping on the couple’s bed with Gemma. On the couple’s Lost in Translation podcast, Gorka revealed Benji now jumps on him and “licks his ear” during the night, sometimes even landing awkwardly as he leaps back onto the bed.
He continued, “Benji has become used to being in the bed with us all night and jumps in and out in the middle of the night since I came home, because I was away for six weeks and I knew this would happen.” Although it’s cute and lovely, consider how you’re deep asleep and he’s licking your ear when he jumps at three in the morning.
It’s not nice, they say. He jumps, but he is unsure of where to land when he does so. And a few times, he has landed on my tiny crackers. And falling asleep is very painful. “
Benji “sleeps a lot of his night” on the floor next to the couple’s bed, Gemma claims. He wasn’t big enough to jump on the bed when you left because you had seven weeks away, she said. He now resembles a big dog. He is, however, devoted to me.
She continued, “Benji slept on the floor next to my side of the bed and he loved it.” He won’t stay on the bed all night, though. He enters when we are getting into bed, sits with us for ten minutes, and then falls to the floor.
He spends the majority of the night lying on the floor. Only if I get to the bathroom and he follows me there and kneels next to me when I’m weeing. Then, he’ll return to bed with me.
However, Gorka claims that Benji recently snuck his spot in the bed while he was settling their son, Thomas, at 5:30 am. Although Gemma claims the couple can only currently leave the dog downstairs, he might “cry all night” she fears.
Wait until we get another one, Gemma continued. Gorka jokingly responded, “Then I leave then.”
When Gorka first returned from the tour, he revealed that he had pleaded with Gemma. He said, “First week home, I had a terrible night of sleep, and I told her, Gemma, we can’t have this, and Benji can’t keep sleeping on the bed,” and she said, “Well you can go in the spare room.” So, nice, great, that’s what will happen.
Gorka, according to Gemma, “sleeps better” when he is sleeping alone. She continued, “Some couples do that, some couples have separate bedrooms, but that doesn’t mean they don’t love one another any less.”
Source: Mirror
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