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Wynne Evans, alongside along with his skilled accomplice Katya Jones, is without doubt one of the remaining contestants on this 12 months’s Strictly Come Dancing.
Chatting with the BBC, Evans mentioned: “I’m truthfully nonetheless pinching myself, a portly balding opera singer, me, collaborating in Strictly Come Dancing?! I’m not solely positive how I’ll get alongside, if all else fails I’ll simply should study the artwork of distraction. What I do know is I’ll give it my all and intention to make Wales proud. I’m positively going to try to mix my love of Opera into one in all my routines.”
The Welsh opera singer has impressed the judges so far, along with his highest rating coming in at 34. Evans has additionally managed to weave in his vocal abilities right into a routine, belting out a Shirley Bassey tune throughout Icons Week.
Regardless of his success on the present, Evans’s stint on Strictly has been overshadowed by controversy. On week 5 of the dance competitors, viewers noticed a clumsy interplay between Evans and Jones.
In a clip, Evans may very well be seen awkwardly inserting his hand slowly throughout his skilled accomplice’s abdomen, through which Jones eliminated it and positioned it on her hip as a substitute. The video rapidly went viral on social media.
“I’m completely heartbroken by the issues which have been written about me within the final day,” he advised BBC Radio Wales on 14 October.
“It’s not good to reside in that point, however mainly Katya and I are actually, actually shut and we’re actually good buddies, and on Saturday night time we made a silly joke.”
He defined, “It was a silly joke that went improper, okay, we thought it was humorous. It wasn’t humorous. It has been completely misinterpreted.”
Jones herself shared a further assertion, through which she mentioned: “Comfortable Sunday, everybody. Now I must make one thing crystal clear.
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“The hand incident that occurred on Saturday night time was a really foolish inside joke between Wynne and I, so even the concept it made me really feel uncomfortable or offended me in any manner is full nonsense.
“It’s fairly absurd, truly. Can we deal with how brilliantly he’s doing and what an incredible dancer he’s grow to be?’”
The 52-year-old Welsh opera star might be higher identified to many as Gio Compario, the annoying Italian tenor from the GoCompare adverts on UK tv, which he began making manner again in 2009.
The adverts, which turned so well-known that they even managed to recruit Stephen Hawking to seem in a cameo, gave Evans’ abilities an opportunity to be beamed to hundreds of thousands of houses throughout the nation, one thing that he’s hoping to do once more on Strictly.
Evans does have some pedigree on movie star expertise reveals. He gained the 2023 version of Celeb MasterChef, beating actor Amy Walsh and actuality star Luca Bish in an intense ultimate.
Evans joked that “after successful Celeb MasterChef final 12 months, perhaps the path to the judges’ hearts might be by their stomachs!”
The Carmarthen-born singer has loved a 25-year profession in opera, leading to two No 1 classical music albums and greater than 200 performances on the Royal Albert Corridor. This contains being forged as Ubaldo Piangi in The Phantom of the Opera on the Royal Albert Corridor, a twenty fifth anniversary celebration of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s basic in 2011.
Evans’ different esteemed operatic roles in productions by the Welsh Nationwide Opera embody Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Cassio in Otello, The Duke in Rigoletto, Rodolfo in La bohème, The Chevalier in Les Dialogues des Carmelites and the First Jew in Salome to call however a couple of.
Other than Gio Compario, maybe his most uncommon position was because the mayor of Mexia, Texas within the opera Anna Nicole, a narrative in regards to the mannequin, actor and former Playboy centrefold Anna Nicole Smith which premiered in 2011 at Covent Backyard’s Royal Opera Home and was even broadcast on BBC 4.
Evans has additionally constructed a profitable profession for himself as a radio presenter and at the moment hosts The Wynne Evans Present on BBC Radio Wales each weekday in addition to beforehand presenting reveals on BBC Radio 3 and Basic FM.
Regardless of, his success on the planet of opera, Evans admits that he has struggled along with his weight, which has impacted his psychological well being.
Talking throughout Psychological Well being Consciousness Week, Evans mentioned that he started having “very darkish ideas” in 2016 however a mixture of medicine, skilled assist and common train has resulted in him dropping seven stone.
“My nervousness and my psychological well being is my superpower,” Evans says. “Because of nervousness I do know precisely what to do when issues go improper as a result of I’ve already considered it a thousand instances. So I believe it is a power and once you see it in different individuals you are in a position to assist them as nicely. I like that.“
