Nadiya Bychkova looks smitten with boyfriend Kai Widdrington in loved-up snaps as they spend quality time together amid the Strictly Live Tour

Nadiya Bychkova and Kai Widdrington looked smitten in loved-up Instagram snaps on Tuesday.

The Strictly Come Dancing pros couldn’t keep their hands off each other as they posed for a mirror selfie before heading out for a healthy dinner.

Nadiya and Kai, who are currently on the Strictly Live Tour, spent some solo time together amid all the madness.

The couple enjoyed some downtime in London and visited an indoor golf course for a date night.

Nadiya also posed in her pink sneakers and rested on Kai’s lap as they ventured around town with their morning coffee in hand.

It comes after Kai gushed over Nadiya during an appearance on Lorraine in December 2023.

Although audiences don’t often see the pair dancing together on the BBC dance show, off TV they make the perfect pair and will be heading out on Behind The Magic tour in June 2024.

The dancers discussed the new show, prompting Kai to give his girlfriend the ultimate compliment.

While Lorraine noted that the two have very different dancing styles, Kai explained that he thinks Nadiya is the “most beautiful dancer in the world.”

He said: ‘We have very different styles, I’m very old-fashioned, traditional, you know the English, British dancer, while Nadiya is very, well you know, I think Nadiya is personally the most beautiful dancer in the world.’

“But they say opposites attract,” he concluded, while Nadiya added, “We compliment each other.”

While discussing the tour, Kai explained that it shows fans how they create things behind the scenes.

‘We want to show the audience what happens backstage and what interesting and difficult moments there are.’

Nadiya and Kai’s romance first started when he joined the show in 2020, with the start of their relationship setting tongues wagging – with talk of ‘The Strictly Curse’.

In January 2022, Nadiya revealed that she had split from her fiancé Matija Škarabot, with whom she shares her five-year-old daughter.

The news came shortly after she linked up with married BBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker and rumors of a romance swirled, which they quickly dispelled.

The dancer later revealed that she had in fact secretly split from her fiancé before series 18 had even started, and during that time she met a dancer with fellow pro Kai – who was romantically linked to his partner from that series – AJ Odudu.

Although Nadiya didn’t reveal exactly when she and Kai started dating, she said in her first interview about their romance that she found him “kind and compassionate and made me laugh.” I feel very relaxed with him.’

Earlier this year, he revealed details about how they kept their romance under wraps: “We knew it would come out and it would be something big, so we kept it private for as long as we could, which was annoying and annoying. exciting at the same time…

‘It was one of those things. We would go somewhere and only we knew we were there. Sometimes we would go out dressed up, or have the baseball caps pulled down low, and we knew this period would only last for a short period of time.”

When asked about a possible proposal – despite only being together for a year – he said: ‘Listen, what can I say… we are very happy together and we don’t want this to end. Of course we want to be together for life, so we’ll see where it goes.’

In April, Nadiya and Kai revealed that despite public misconception, they have yet to take their long-standing relationship to the next level and move in together, admitting it’s ‘hard’ being under the watchful gaze of their loyal fanbase .

Nadiya explained that it took herself and Kai some time to establish their feelings for each other, while Strictly viewers were keen to discover if they had become the show’s first professional duo to find love on the dancefloor.

She said: ‘At first we were still figuring it out on our own! It’s easier now in the sense that everyone knows we’re together, but having a relationship in the public eye is hard.”

Kai added, “Everything is under scrutiny,” before Nadiya continued, “but there are some positives: we get to do what we love and make the show, so it’s how you balance it.”