Strictly's Gorka Marquez gushes over 'beautiful couple' Ellie Simmonds and Nikita Kuzmin

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Strictly Come Dancing co-stars, dance pro Nikita Kuzmin and his celeb partner Ellie Simmonds.The Spanish dancer, 32, reshared a sweet snap of the partnership ahead of the second week of the show.In view of his 703,000 followers, Gorka voiced his support for Nikita and Ellia.The Strictly pro reposted a picture of the duo which paralympian Ellie has shared to her stories.In the pic, Nikita affectionately had his arm around Elie's shoulder as she beamed while hugging him around his waist.The swimming champion also revealed that the Spaniard was the one who took a snap of the sweet moment.Ellie wrote: "@gorka_marquez bringing out his incredible camera... @nikita__kuzmin."Gorka then re-shared the picture, writing: "Beautiful couple".It comes as Ellie and Nikita landed in the middle of the scoreboard after their first week on the dancefloor.The duo performed the Cha-Cha which landed them a score of 26 out of 40.Gorka, who's partnered with Countryfile host Helen Skelton, landed the same score, leaving them firmly in the middle of the scoreboard.Taking the lead is Hollyoaks actor Will Mellor and his partner Nancy Xu, as wella s Hamza Yassin and Jowitz Przystal who were both scored 34 out of 40.At the other end of the scoreboard, Matt Goss and Nadiya Bychkova came in second to last with a score of 20 out of 40.While former footballer Tony Adams and pro Katya Jones came last with their Tango which was scored 15 out of 40.It comes after former Strictly pro James Jordan was corrected after the first performance when he took to Twitter to give fans his critique of Ellie's routine.Giving Ellie some constructive criticism, James urged her to try and “straighten her legs as much as possible”.He typed in view of his 319,200 followers:.