BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Vito Coppola declares love in training - but not to Sarah Hadland

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Vito Coppola took a break from his Strictly Come Dancing training to declare his love - but not for his celebrity dance partner Sarah Hadland.

The pair had an emotional weekend in the ballroom as Sarah performed to a song close to her heart. The Miranda star and her Italian dance partner danced a Foxtrot to Birds Of A Feather by Billie Eilish, but ahead of their performance, Sarah broke into tears as she spoke about the importance of the song to her and her 'little one'.

Despite not getting their best scores and comments of the series, the pair made it through to week five of the BBC One dance contest and have since been back in training for their upcoming Samba to Do It Do It Again by Rafaella Carrà. READ MORE: Liam Payne was 'proud dad' before tragic death as fans support Cheryl and son Bear With their next performance fast approaching, it seems Sarah decided to boost the mood in rehersals and brought along her beloved cat, Percy, to join them.

Taking to Instagram, Vito posted a string of pictures of him kissing and cuddling the adorable ginger and white cat. Captioning the post, the dancer wrote: "Finally I met Percy and I love him." He went on to explain in the comments seciton of the post: "It took about half an hour to meet each other, but at the end we had our bond.