Strictly Come Dancing pro Gorka Márquez knows who he wants his next celebrity partner to be.
The TV star has revealed he would love to dance alongside David Beckham and claims the viewers would love it if he made an appearance.
Gorka exclusively said to the Daily Star: “I think David Beckham would be good, people would love seeing Beckham with all the sequins and the tight trousers too.”
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The talented dancer also opened up about how the hilarious story of when he first started dating Gemma Atkinson – and how his dad reacted.
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The professional dancer, 33, and the former Hollyoaks actress, 39, have been engaged since 2021 and share two children together, four-year-old daughter Mia and 11-month-old son Thiago.
The couple first met on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017 when she was partnered with his co-star pal Aljaž Škorjanec. Gorka confessed he didn’t know who Gemma was before meeting her on the show and said he had to “Google her”.
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But he wasn’t the only one in his family to do so. Gorka laughed: “It is quite funny actually as when I told my dad who Gemma was, my dad Googled her name.
“He said ‘She’s beautiful’ and I then Googled her and the first picture that came up was one of her calendar pictures. So, I was like ‘Oh, great…'”
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In the noughties, Gemma left her role on Hollyoaks as Lisa Hunter and carved out a successful career in glamour modelling – resulting in her shooting some impressive calendars.
In other news, Gorka is promoting a new tour titled Speakeasy with his Strictly co-star Karen Hauer. Gorka told us: “We’re going to be bringing the audience into what feels like an undercover world, like if they were to go to an underground club, where everything is undercover and secret and very smoky.
“It’s like a journey through the eras, if you look back through the years, like in the 20s, the 40s then back to the 70s, we have always had those places, where people used to go with their own secrets, play games, or go with their loved one.
“Maybe if no one knew they were together, you know, to like, drink smoke, so it will show that through dance, go to the undercover wall, where it’s like a magic world. People can forget about everything and everything is possible.”
Karen and Gorka tour Speakeasy from Feb 2025 – Tickets are on sale now via https://www.speakeasylive.co.uk/
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