Comedian is paired with Karen Hauer Wyn-Jones

Jayde Adams has become the latest Strictly Come Dancing competitor to be part of a same sex couple.

The comic has been paired with Karen Hauer Wyn-Jones after telling producers she did not mind what gender her partner was.

But she said that when she ‘imagined myself being on this show and I manifested it years ago I thought to myself it would be better if it was a woman because I would be able to lift her’.

The stand-up jokingly added that she did not ‘want to offend all the boys on the show but they ain’t strong enough and that ain’t my fault’.

She told journalists: ‘If you’re in the dance world, which I was as a child, the sort of all-girl and all-male partnerships is quite commonplace… it just doesn’t seem like anything that is abnormal to me. It seems like a completely natural thing.

‘Also to be honest with you, if I was in a male partnership, show me one of the lads that’s lifting me. I’m now going to be able to throw Karen Hauer around that dance floor.

‘She’s going over my head, I don’t care! I cannot wait to lift her because when I danced with my sister, I was the base and I used to lift her all the time and actually the last time I danced was actually with my sister… so this felt really natural for me.

Adams has credited her sister Jenna, who died of a brain tumour in 2011, as her inspiration for taking part in the show.

Nicola Adams and Katya Jones, competed as Strictly's first same-sex couple in 2020 with John Whaite and Johannes Radebe competing together last year.

Radebe has been paired with comedian Ellie Taylor this year - while radio sports presenter Richie Anderson has been coupled with Giovanni Pernice int he second same-sex pairing of this year’s show.

Published: 24 Sep 2022