Katya Jones says husband Neil comforted her after Seann Walsh kiss
Katya Jones has opened up on her kiss with Strictly Come Dancing partner Seann Walsh, revealing she was comforted by her husband Neil Jones in the fallout.
Katya and Walsh were pictured kissing on a night out in London in October after partnering up on the BBC ballroom show.
Walsh was publicly dumped by his long-term girlfriend Rebecca Humphries who hit out at him in a scathing Twitter statement.
Opening up about the scandalous kiss in their first joint interview since it happened, Katya told Hello!: “The hate I felt made me very sad.
“I look at everything as a massive learning process. But actually drop by drop, people typing horrible and unkind things about you, does affect you...
“We knew we just had to sort it out ourselves. It was quite shocking to be suddenly so exposed and everyone has an opinion on it but we just wanted to focus on us. My first thought was for Neil.”
Neil said he chose to forgive his wife as he “can accept people make mistakes”.
He said: “My mum always said, ‘People make mistakes in their lives. Don’t react, try to understand’. So that is how it always is for me.”
Walsh and Katya were subjected to mass criticism from fans in the wake of the kiss, with Walsh accused of being emotionally abusive towards Humphries who claimed he would tell her she was “nuts” when she questioned his relationship with Katya.
Walsh denied all claims at the time, insisting he was “not the person he was being portrayed as”. But he later admitted his behaviour was abusive.
“At first it’s denial, initially you look at that and you go, ‘No absolutely not.’ But with time, someone that you cared about has written that about you and posted that and I think that actually, yes she was right what she said,” he told Jonathan Ross.
“I think if you lie and cheat on the person that you’re meant to care for and be in a relationship with, then that is a form of abuse, of course it is. All I can be is as sorry as I am. I hope one day that she’ll forgive me.”
Read the full interview in Hello! magazine, out now
