Katya Jones brought out her best charm as she made a very flirty comment to her Strictly Come Dancing partner Wynne Evans on air.

The professional dancer, 35, made an appearance on the opera singer’s BBC Radio Wales morning show on Wednesday where they chatted about their favourite artists.

During the conversation, Wynne admitted that, despite attending a Taylor Swift concert and even purchasing her merchandise, he wouldn’t call himself a die-hard fan.

Katya responded by sharing her own thoughts: ‘I remember I have a Beyonce t-shirt, but we’ve just discovered that you’re not necessarily a massive fan if you’ve got a t-shirt.’

‘I’ve got loads of yours,’ she cheekily added.

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Katya Jones made an appearance on the opera singer’s BBC Radio Wales morning show on Wednesday and made a VERY flirty comment

Opera singer Wynne – who was once a frontrunner for the Glitterball Trophy – is just 5/1 to be sent packing from the competition this week having been 25/1 in the same market last week.

Katya has defended her celebrity partner, declaring he has been ‘portrayed as someone he is not’, as the pair insist his ‘wandering hand’ incident was a silly joke.

On Monday evening’s TV appearance, Wynne admitted he had watched the footage of the incident back and confessed: ‘I can see how people may have misinterpreted it.’

Clinging to his arm, Katya said she ‘can’t bear’ the flack her co-star is getting and was empathetic that there was no wrongdoing.

She said: ‘The idea that it made me feel uncomfortable or offended in any way is total nonsense, and those that have doubts, you guys have got it wrong. So hopefully this will be the end of it, and you just keep making me smile.’

She added: ‘I can’t sit here watching this man being portrayed as someone he’s not. In fact, it couldn’t be further away from the truth.

‘So I have to make this absolutely clear that this whole incident, with the hand and the high five on Saturday night, was an inside joke between Wynne and I. Was it a silly joke? Yes, was it a bad joke? Yes.’

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Wynne Evans and Katya Jones are in serious danger of being booted off Strictly Come Dancing on Sunday’s results show according to the bookies – a week after their awkward ‘hand incident’

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On Sunday, Evans and Jones released a video on Instagram saying they were ‘just messing around in the ‘Clauditorium’ the previous evening and just want to say sorry. It was a silly joke’

The incident caused such concern among BBC top brass, who have spent months firefighting accusations of misconduct on previous series, that a welfare investigation was conducted.

A source said: ‘The Strictly welfare team checked in on the pair individually to confirm that nothing was awry and that both were comfortable continuing with the partnership.

‘Training room researchers have kept meticulous logs of what goes on during rehearsals between every celebrity couple, and Wynne and Katya are no different.’

‘If there had been any form of misbehavior or cause for concern, then it would have been flagged by the welfare team.

‘There hasn’t been and they consider the matter closed.’

The BBC confirmed that no further actions are planned.

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They have spent the week defending their awkward exchange during Saturday night’s live show, when viewers spotted the moment Katya moved Wynne’s hand away from her waist

Wynne, who has starred in the GoCompare adverts for over a decade, claims that he has been left ‘heartbroken’ by the fallout after some Strictly fans called for him to be axed from the show.

Speaking on BBC Radio Wales, where he presents a daily show, Mr Evans said: ‘I’m absolutely heartbroken by the things that have been written about me in the last day.

He said: ‘I’m absolutely heartbroken by the things that have been written about me in the last day.

The duo had become surprise favourites to win this year’s Strictly, scoring 34 out of 40 from the judges for their tango on Saturday.

‘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, okay, we thought it was funny. It wasn’t funny. It has been totally misinterpreted.

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The professional dancer doubled down on her claims that their awkward Strictly Come Dancing exchange was an inside joke and added that fan reaction had ‘overshadowed’ their live performance

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Wynne explained  that having watched the footage he could understand how fans of the show may have concluded something was wrong between the pair

‘Everything’s on Katya’s socials. She’s talked about it. She’s explained that it was a joke. She wasn’t offended in the least. She doesn’t feel uncomfortable.

‘We’ve got a brilliant friendship, an absolutely tight friendship, and I’m sorry if anybody was offended by it, but it was a joke and yeah, that’s all there is, there is no real story, really.

‘And I feel weird apologising because I feel like I’ve not really done anything.’

He agreed he had ‘misjudged it’, when interviewed on Radio Wales Breakfast before starting his own show on the station, and confirmed he was ‘absolutely still up for’ Strictly.

He said: ‘I’m having the best time of my life. I just don’t want this to be the bit that people remember.’