Strictly Come Dancing professional Gorka Marquez has been outed by his female dancing colleagues for showing off a certain part of his body. The revelation came on Strictly spin-off show It Takes Two, during tonight's episode on BBC Two (Thursday).
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"I dreamed of being on Coronation Street and pulling pints in the Rovers," Ryan Kay says when asked about how he got into styling. The cobbles are a far cry from how he actually spends his days, but he does spend them with a soap star or two - as the stylist behind the likes of Gemma Atkinson and Lucy Fallon.
Ryan, from Warrington, was also into sports as a youngster but, in the end, it was his passion for fashion that got him working with some of our biggest stars of the small screen. At drama school, he became good friends with Nikki Sanderson, known for her roles in Corrie and Hollyoaks, and, going shopping for a photoshoot she had as a young actress ended up sparking a new dream for Ryan.
"I went shopping with her and Maureen Nolan as they were doing a show called The Naked Truth and they were like, ‘You should be a stylist'," Ryan recalled to the Manchester Evening News. "I’d always loved fashion growing up. I remember David Beckham had this line of clothing out for kids in M&S and my mum used to work in M&S and every day she’d bring me home a t-shirt.
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"I just loved fashion but I didn’t know what a stylist was. Nikki explained and I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m going to do it!’ and so I said ‘Au Revoir’ to acting and I just took a leap of faith and I moved to London."
Ryan’s plans to become a stylist got more serious when he was accepted into the London College of Fashion. "I was 24, I was a late bloomer going to university," he said but during his time there he had internships with the likes of Julien McDonald and ended up working for a fashion
Strictly Come Dancing professional Gorka Marquez has been outed by his female dancing colleagues for showing off a certain part of his body. The revelation came on Strictly spin-off show It Takes Two, during tonight's episode on BBC Two (Thursday).
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