Episode aired on Saturday night Definitely Come Dance This was an important turning point for the season. Love Island Star Tasha Ghouri, paired with professional dancer Aljaz Skorjanec, earned the first “10” point of the 2024 competition, scoring a near-perfect total of 39 points for her Coachella-themed, selfie-stick-waving, highly impressive Charleston. with just four weeks until the live shows. But still, this moment of triumph was overshadowed by two brief interactions that took place far from the dance floor — and they were so fleeting that you might have missed them the first time. The storm of assumptions they created is perhaps the first sign of this. DefinitelyNavigating the post-scandal era will be very difficult indeed.
Towards the end of the show, the celebrities and their professional partners gathered, as they do every week, in the upstairs “Clauditorium” where host Claudia Winkleman chatted with contestants between performances before voting lines opened. But this time, dancer Katya Jones was caught on camera moving opera singer Wynne Evans’ hand from her navel to her hips. Earlier in the program, he appeared to reject his partner’s high-five. Seeing these two events in tandem led viewers to speculate whether Jones was agitated. Social media was abuzz with comments in a short time. Definitely fans: One Twitter/X viewer claimed, “Something went wrong,” while others called the interaction “disturbing.”
The duo quickly moved to shut down the rumor mill, posting a video on Instagram in which they said they were “just messing around.” Their high-fives were an “ongoing joke” between them, Evans wrote in her post. Jones, a Definitely The eight-year veteran then doubled down on the issue with another video on Sunday, calling the fight “pretty ridiculous” and asking fans to focus their attention on Evans’ “astonishing” progress in the contest. “Even the idea that this offends or offends me in any way is complete nonsense,” he said. And this morning Evans discussed the issue on BBC Radio Wales, revealing he was “heartbroken by what has been written about him”. [him]and again referred to the moment as “a stupid joke gone wrong”, “completely misinterpreted”. Reports suggested that the show’s outreach team was checking in on the duo and no further action was planned.
After the drama surrounding the backstage Definitely This year, it seems inevitable that audiences will be on the lookout for any whispers of behind-the-scenes squabbles, whether real or imagined. Last month the BBC published the results of its investigation into former contestant Amanda Abbington’s complaints against former professional Giovanni Pernice. The company acknowledged complaints about verbal bullying and harassment but found that Pernice was not physically aggressive and also apologized to Abbington. Before that, dancer Graziano Di Prima left over the summer. Definitely, He later admitted to kicking his celebrity partner Zara McDermott during rehearsal.
Although the long-running investigation has been concluded, it has cast a decided shadow over the usually bright proceedings. Although it turned out to be difficult to get rid of this shadow Definitely seems to have taken a business-as-usual approach (the fight has yet to be mentioned on the show, but chaperones are now present during dance rehearsals and outreach protocols are supported). Against this backdrop, it’s no surprise that fans are reading unusual on-screen interactions more closely than they did a few years ago: everything happening on air now is viewed through the prism of past scandals.
Perhaps because we didn’t see tensions building before they exploded in the press last season, we’ve become obsessed with watching for any signs of discontent. Following such controversies, this 20th anniversary season Definitely It was always going to be a rough ride for the show, for exactly this reason: both the media and fans are more sensitive to possible cracks in the glittering façade. Whereas once upon a time we could scrutinize every dance pairing for any evidence of explosive romantic chemistry; this is “Definitely curse” scenario – look at that eye contact during the Argentinian tango! – our new default is to call discord instead.
As the competition continues and fans remain hypervigilant, contestants, professionals and show bosses will need to brace for increased scrutiny and be prepared to carefully manage potential outcomes. The way we watch DefinitelyIt looks like he’s changed, and it’ll probably take more than a few smiley reassurances to rebuild viewers’ trust.