BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Wynne Evans handed devastating update three days on from Katya Jones row
Wynne Evans has been handed a devastating update three days on from the Katya Jones controversy. BBC Strictly Come Dancing odds have been released ahead of this weekend's show - and hint Wynne and Katya may be heading for an exit.
GoCompare star Wynne was at a 20/1 chance of going home when betting opened, but the leading bookmaker have had to cut his price all the way down to 9/2. Sam Behar, UK director at BetMGM, said: “Paul Merson might be the favourite to leave Strictly this weekend but Wynne Evans certainly isn’t without a chance of leaving.
“He looked a lively outsider a couple of weeks ago in the outright betting but the news this week certainly hasn’t helped his chances and he’s been very well-backed to exit on Sunday night. He opened up at 20/1 but is now just 9/2, with only Paul Merson (10/11) and Punam Krishan (13/4) shorter in the next elimination betting.”
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It comes amid the viral controversy which has seen Wynne and Katya thrown under the spotlight. Viewers noticed some apparently awkward moments between the opera singer and his dance partner Katya Jones, when she seemed to decline a high-five and later appeared to move his hand from her waist.
Jones said on Monday evening that Evans has been "portrayed as someone he is not". "I have to make this absolutely clear, that this whole incident with the hand and the high five on Saturday night, it was an inside joke between Wynne and I," she told the It Takes Two programme. "Was it a silly joke, yes, was it a bad joke, yes."
Speaking on Monday on BBC Radio Wales, where he hosts a programme, Evans said: "I'm absolutely heartbroken by the things that have been written about me in the last day." He added: "It's not nice to live in that time, but basically Katya and I are really, really close and we're really good friends, and on Saturday night we made a stupid joke.
"It was a stupid joke that went wrong, OK? We thought it was funny. It wasn't funny. It has been totally misinterpreted."