Should Seann and Katya stay on Strictly?

By  Arewainfinit
tue oct 9
           

                               
     Seann Walsh and Katya Jones - will they stay or should they go?
                        
       

Image caption Seann Walsh and Katya Jones - will they stay or should they go?

It started with a kiss... Strictly contestant star Seann Walsh and dance partner Katya Jones  after being caught kissing in public.

Walsh, who had a long-term girlfriend, Rebecca Humphries, and Jones, married to Strictly professional Neil Jones, both tweeted an apology of "inappropriate and hurtful behaviour" during their relationship.
Walsh has yet to comment but what does this mean for such a big TV show?
Entertainment reporter Caroline Frost told BBC Radio 5 Live: "I think the Strictly producers can't really lose here, it's a huge story.
"If they [Walsh and Jones] don't go by lunchtime, every viewer in the country, even the ones who weren't tuning in for the first three weeks of the programme, will be tuning in to see how this plays out.
"Even if they were to stay until the weekend I wouldn't expect them to go through."
                             
              
             Humphries has been seen cheering Walsh on during the live shows
   She said the   hugely successful BBC One show was in uncharted territory.

'Disaster for Seann'

"For years, one of the great ingredients the show has traded on is the so-called curse [relationship break-ups during the series] - Strictly has never had to say too much on this [because] it's gone on behind the scenes. This is the first one so blatantly played out on the front of the newspapers.
"But when there are, from Rebecca's account, [allegations of] a background of... bad treatment, I think a line has been crossed."
The BBC has asked Walsh and Strictly for a comment on the allegations but have had no response so far.