BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Helen Skelton all smiles as she mucks about with Gorka Marquez

Helen Skelton couldn't help but giggle as she mucked about with Gorka Marquez behind the scenes at S trictly Come Dancing. Fans of the hit BBC One show only discovered their partnership for the 2022 series on Friday before the competition kicked off with week one on Saturday night.

The new couple were among the 15 famous faces and professional partners to start their Strictly journey as the show burst back onto screens for its 20th series.

And Helen and Gorka got off to a beautiful and brilliant start as their debut performance, an American Smooth to Aretha Franklin's You Send Me, saw them awarded a score of 26 by the judges - Shirley Ballas, Motsi Mabuse, Craig Revel Horwood and Anton Du Beke.

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But it was a stark contrast to what could have happened as she revealed on her BBC Radio 5 Live show on Sunday that broke down in tears and tried to escape through fire exit before debut. The Countryfile host made the admission after she joked to Claudia Winkleman after her performance: "I kept trying to leave."

However, it did appear she had some fun if Gorka's latest social media post is anything to go by. " Running into week two like…" he captioned a video posted to his thousands of followers. It showed the Spanish dancer pulling his new dance partner around in a trolley.

Helen, 39, could be seen laughing as Gorka pulled her back and forth before he zoomed off rather quickly leaving Helen to bend forward and grab onto the sides of the square box on wheels. Continuing his post, Gorka asked: " Any guesses for our next dance?"

Fans quickly flocked to the comments section trying to