Gorka Marquez flaunted his toned physique on Sunday as he whipped off his shirt during his latest tour performance with Karen Hauer in Manchester.
The Spanish dancer, 34, joined his fellow Strictly Come Dancing star, 42, at Bridgewater Hall for their SPEAKEASY show, which sees them take to the stage in theatres across the country.
And Gorka dazzled the large crowd on this occasion, as he stripped off his dark blue and white horizontal-striped T-shirt to reveal his incredibly toned abs.
The audience were treated to a glimpse of his remarkable body, including his unusual tattoos, one of which involves a huge tiger face inked across his entire back.
The star’s dramatic routine left him wearing just a pair of black trousers and cherry red Converse trainers.
Gorka was soon joined by Karen for a lively dance, with the Venezuelan-American professional sporting a sparkly red mini-dress with a slit as she wowed the crowd.
Gorka Marquez flaunted his toned physique on Sunday as he whipped off his shirt during his latest tour performance with Karen Hauer in Manchester
The Spanish dancer, 34, joined his fellow Strictly Come Dancing star, 42, at Bridgewater Hall for their SPEAKEASY show (pictured)
His latest daring show, comes after Gorka’s fiancée Gemma Atkinson insisted she has no regrets about her own wild past ahead of settling down with the Strictly favourite.
The actress, 40, first rose to fame as Sєxy siren Lisa Hunter in Hollyoaks, and in recent years has become an advocate for fitness with her gruelling exercise regime.
Last month, Gemma confessed that during her 20s she was more preoccupied with her Sєxual conquests than staying in shape, telling Women’s Health Magazine she was no stranger to the ‘walk of shame’.
The star has also been engaged twice before, but hopes to make it down the aisle with Gorka, after they started dating on Strictly in 2017.
Gemma revealed: ‘I’ve done the, people say walk of shame. I call it a stride of pride, across someone’s landing, praying that their mum or dad doesn’t come out of a bedroom.
‘No interaction. Don’t make eye contact — you don’t want to know what I have just done to your son the night before. Don’t look at me.’
Nowadays, Gemma is more focused on her fitness regime, after being surprised by how long it’s taken to recover from her Caesarean section after having her second child, son Thiago, in July 2023.
She told the publication that she wakes up at 4.30am before throwing herself into a kettlebell-and-cardio routine designed by personal trainer Elliott Upton at her home gym in Manchester.
Gorka dazzled the large crowd on this occasion, as he stripped off his dark blue and white horizontal-striped T-shirt to reveal his incredibly toned abs
The audience were treated to a glimpse of his remarkable body, including his unusual tattoos, one of which involves a huge tiger face inked across his entire back
Gemma announced her engagement to Gorka in 2021, but the couple have been forced to push back their wedding multiple times due to work commitments. The couple are also parents to daughter Mia, five.
The star has previously confessed that she’s been engaged twice, first to footballer Marcus Bent in 2008, and then Britain’s Got Talent finalist and martial-arts expert Liam Richards in 2010.
Speaking about her exes on her podcast The Overshare, Gemma said: ‘You are not always meant to be with that one person. I have been engaged before. This is my third engagement.
‘Me and Gorka discussed it. He is the only person I said, “Yeah, I would love to marry you”.’
‘The other two just proposed. I was like, “Ahh, Yes”. Six weeks later, I was like, “I can’t do it”. You just know.
‘People do sometimes go through with an engagement or wedding knowing it is the wrong person — but a fear of, “How do you get out of it?” But imagine trying to get out of a divorce. It is even harder.’
Gemma also revealed that she and Gorka had actually crossed paths before they started dating on Strictly, after she saw him perform while on holiday with an ex.
She added: ‘I was on holiday with my 1742225613 ex and we were dancing in the Bahamas. And unbeknown to me a cruise ship pulled up on the beachfront and we were stood with some drinks, pointing at the cruise ship going, “Oh look, it is mᴀssive”.
Last month Gorka’s fiancée Gemma Atkinson insisted she has no regrets about her wild past ahead of settling down with the Strictly favourite (pictured together in October)
The actress, 40, (pictured in 2007) first rose to fame as Sєxy siren Lisa Hunter in Hollyoaks , and in recent years has become an advocate for fitness with her gruelling exercise regime
‘And Gorka was performing on that cruise ship. We worked this out. I was there with my ex who at the time I thought, “I am going to marry, have kids, this is it”. Three months later, turns out he had another life elsewhere — another partner.
‘But then I met Gorka. It is the whole sliding-doors moment. We were in the same country without even knowing, both of us together.’
Gorka previously praised Strictly for helping him to build a family, after he and Gemma grew close after meeting on the show.
He told the Daily Star: ‘Strictly has changed my life, if you look back and go back nine years ago, I came here to the UK for the first time to do Strictly, after never been here before, and now look at me now, I have a family, a partner, two children all because of Strictly.
‘The romance between us didn’t start until we did the tour, as on the show we only used to hang out first as a group and in rehearsals.
‘But then we were on tour after the Strictly, we had more time and would say “let’s go for a coffee” or “I’m going to the gym, can I come with you?” so then we ended up spending a lot of time together, we were like travelling every day to different cities.’
