By Mia O’Hare
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Strictly Come Dancing star Lewis Cope sent a very late night text message to his professional dancer Katya Jones following their first show. The soap actor is competing on this year’s competition and has already impressed fans and judges. Many believe with Lewis’ West End past they have “already won” this year’s show. Speaking for the first time on spin-off It Takes Two, the pair spilled on their first experience of Strictly together. Lewis confessed: “I couldn’t be happier.” While professional dancer Katya heaped on the praise for Lewis, she also revealed he sent her a very late text after the show. She revealed to host Janette Manrara: “You never know, the first Saturday, what the reaction to your celeb is going to be. Of course you are a little bit nervous, especially starting separately. “I could just see his eyes light up and when we came together finally, it just kept building and building. It was so exciting.” Katya added: “At 4:29am, I got a text message ‘why does it feel like Christmas morning?'” It comes just hours after Dani Dyer opened up on her shock exit from the show after suffering an injury during training. The Love Island star admitted she felt “pure devastation” at being forced to pull out from the competition before it had even begun. She had been paired with professional Nikita Kuzmin , but their Strictly journey came to a dramatic halt. Speaking on her podcast, Live and Let Dyers, Dani emotionally recalled the moment when she realised it was all over. Dani said: “The doctor said to me, If I continue dancing on this foot, it’s not going to heal, it’s going to get worse and worse and worse. It’s so hard because I was just having the best time of my life.” “I was so happy, I was so excited. The photoshoots, they’re the fun part, but I got my partner, I got Nikita ,” she revealed. Dani, 29, fractured her ankle in a rehearsal after the launch show. She confessed: “We were all just so devastated about it, and I think because everyone was so devastated about it, it made it really hard for me, do you know what I mean?” Dani added that she couldn’t leave the house because she was so sad and likely to cry. “Everyone around me was pure devastation, and that’s why I couldn’t leave the house, because I knew if someone said to me ‘are you okay Dani’ I’d just cry. “And everyone is so kind and lovely and I could probably stand in the street and cry. But for me mentally, it’s just been really testing my mental health.” Like this story? For more of the latest showbiz news and gossip, follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok , Snapchat , Instagram , Twitter , Facebook , YouTube and Threads .
