Helen Skelton has kicked off a new chapter in her Strictly Come Dancing journey, without pro partner Gorka Marquez, as she gets stuck into rehearsals for the show's live tour.
While it's still been less than a month since the Strictly final, many stars from the most recent series are now back in the training room, getting ready for the tour to start on January 20. The line-up for the tour was announced in the run up to Christmas and while Helen is on it, along with new champions Hamza Yassin and Jowita Przystal and other couples like Ellie Simmonds and Nikita Kuzmin and Will Mellor and Nancy Xu, Gorka will play no part at all.
Having believed that he and Helen deserved to win, many Strictly fans were very much looking forward to seeing the couple recreate some of their memorable performances, particularly their Couple's Choice, on tour. So it came as a shock and a big surprise that Gorka isn;t doing the tour, with Helen instead dancing with Kai Widdrington.
