Strictly Come Dancing is facing yet another scandal as reports have claimed there is a video circulating of a married celebrity contestant kissing his dance partner

‘I was on Strictly and I’m not surprised by married couple kiss’

The hit BBC show Strictly Come Dancing has seen many scandals in recent years, and has been rocked by a fresh one, as reports claim that a married celebrity contestant was caught on camera kissing his dance partner. But, one former star isn’t surprised.

James Jordan, who was a professional dancer on the show from 2006 to 2014, said a video of a female pro dancer sitting on the lap of and kissing her married celebrity partner does not shock him, as it’s “not the first time it’s happened”.

He insisted that he isn’t aware of who is involved, but he added that such things have happened before and will happen again. “It’s not the first time it’s happened, and it won’t be the last.”

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James Jordan and his wife, Ola, were pro Strictly dancers(Image: Sunday Mirror)

He told The Sun. “When people are on Strictly, they’re put in a situation where they’re training with people for maybe eight, 10 hours a day, spending sometimes months with each other.

“So if anything’s going to happen, it’s more likely to happen on a show like that because of the intensity, the fact that you’re so close to each other and everything.”

The show is known for the ‘Strictly Curse’ – the name given to relationships, no matter how brief, that start between a celeb contestant and their pro dancer and lead to the break up of a prior relationship.

Some have used the term to talk about the relationship between Kristina Rihanoff and Ben Cohen, as he was married when he started Strictly. It has also been used to refer to the scandal that erupted when Katya Jones and Seann Walsh were seen kissing on a night out, as both of them were in relationships that subsequently ended.

Seann Walsh and Katya Jones had to apologise on It Takes Two for kissing

James continued: “It doesn’t make it right, does it? It can obviously damage people’s lives and upset a lot of people, but it doesn’t necessarily come as a shock to me. But I am curious, very curious now who it is.”

The video was supposedly taken backstage at Elstree studios, which is where the show is filmed. A source said: “This incident has been the talk of Strictly in very need-to-know for the past couple of years.

“The video itself shows the famous married family man passionately kissing his female dance pro. She is sitting on his knee, and he has his hand on her back before leaning in for a kiss. The kiss only lasts a few seconds but it would more than likely end his marriage and destroy his carefully cultivated family man image.”

In recent years, a few scandals have struck Strictly. There was an investigation into the conduct of some of the professional dancers, after Amanda Abbington claimed she was harassed by Giovanni Pernice and Zara McDermott claimed she was bullied and kicked by Graziano di Prima. Both pros are no longer on the show. Strictly was also rocked by scandal when two unnamed stars allegedly used cocaine.

Giovanni Pernice was at the centre of one Strictly scandal

As was Graziano di Prima

When Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman announced they would be leaving the show, some wondered if they were pre-empting another scandal, but James has said he does not think this kiss caused them to leave.

“With regards to Tess and Claudia, I don’t think that would be a big enough reason for them to decide to leave the show. I think it would need to be a much bigger story or scandal than that, because it’s happened from the first series, hasn’t it?

“The strictly curse, as everyone calls it, happened from series one, and it’s happened pretty much most years throughout the show’s history.”