Gemma Atkinson has opened up about an embarrasing moment she had on holiday with Gorka Marquez shortly after the couple met on BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing
Gemma Atkinson was left “mortified” over an incident with Gorka Marquez. Gemma, 41, met Gorka while she was performing on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017.
Gemma was partnered with professional dancer Aljaž Škorjanec, finishing one of the runners-up in the series. Gorka meanwhile was partnered with former X Factor winner Alexandra Burke, and also reached the final.
However Gemma and Gorka’s relationship blossomed and a year later the pair confirmed they were in a relationship. They announced their engagement on Valentine’s Day in 2021.
They now share children Mia and Thiago together. During the early days of their relationship the couple took a trip to Tenerife, where they were pictured spending time together on the beach.
Reflecting on their first trip together on their Lost in Translation podcast, Gemma said: “That’s the one of us where those horrible pap pictures came out and I was mortified. It was Tenerife wasn’t it, straight after the tour we went. Those awful pictures came out of us on the beach.”
Gorka responded: “It wasn’t awful, we were just playing on the beach, it was the last day, and it was like a quiet beach.”
He added: “We ordered food and the food came, so we were sat between two sunbeds, eating food, she was sat and then asked if I would put her suncream [on].”
Gorka joked he decided to flick the suncream on Gemma instead of helping her to apply it. He continued: “I was making a joke, instead of doing the suncream I squeezed the bottle of suncream all over her, so it was on her face.
“At the same time, 500m away in the cliffs was this random paparazzi deciding to take pictures.”
Gemma said the photographer was “alright” and “grassed up” the source who tipped them off over the couple’s location. She said: “That pap, he was alright, and we asked him, I was like, ‘Genuinely, we booked this so privately, who did you find out we were coming here?’ But he told us that the airline we booked with told the agency what flight we were on.
“They got on the same flight and trailed us from the airport to the hotel, so he said, ‘I knew you were at that hotel’. It was fine, because he had a job to do, but since then we have always booked in a different way.”
Gemma went on to say that Gorka, 35, “was young” during their trip to the Canary Islands. She added: “He was pretending to wipe semen on my face in the form of suncream and that’s the pap shot.
“So yeah, he was young. Crikey, and people were like, ‘Oh my god, you’re disgusting, you so obviously set that up.’ No, I didn’t, I would have set one up breathing in, on all fours.”
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