OLYMPIC boxing champion Nicola Adams is planning to introduce her dance partner Katya Jones to her girlfriend ahead of rehearsals.
The sports star, 37, wants model and beauty blogger Ella Baig, 22, to feel comfortable about the pro partnership — the show’s first same-sex pair.
Stars and their partners start practising next week and Ella has moved from Leeds to London in a show of support for Nicola.
A source said: “Nicola wants Ella to be as happy as possible so a cosy meeting with Katya will smooth out any awkwardness. Nicola is confident in the relationship.” It comes two years after 31-year-old Katya, then married to Neil Jones, was caught kissing her celebrity partner comic Seann Walsh, 34.
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