Strictly Come Dancing 2017: Mollie King addresses AJ romance rumours 'I'm very lucky'
STRICTLY COME DANCING hopeful Mollie King has addressed the rumours that she and partner AJ Pritchard have struck up a romance after getting close during training.
Mollie King masters dance move in time for Strictly
The 30-year-old Saturdays star spoke out about the reports that she and the 22-year-old angel-faced dancer had been developing more than just a professional relationship, saying: "I think there's always some kind of romance rumour so it didn't surprise me.
"But I hardly even know him well so far so there's no truth in that," she told Huffington Post at the Diversity in Media Awards, denying all whispers of romance between the pair.
"He's such a sweetheart," she admitted, adding: "And obviously he is a beautiful boy so I'm very lucky."
Mollie and AJ were recently spotted getting cosy as she "made him sweat" in rehearsals ahead of the first live show of Strictly Come Dancing 2017 next weekend.
The young dancer shared a clip with his 62,000 Instagram followers earlier this week showing them working hard on their Jive to Good Golly Miss Molly by Little Richard, captioning the montage: "When training is a BLAST (Love an Insta Story of the day) Laughing our heads off @mollieking."
The video saw AJ performing a dramatic pirouette move as perspiration could be seen dripping from his face, along text which read: "@mollieking making me sweat."
Aj Pritchard and Mollie King in Strictly training
Mollie initially sparked romance rumours after she uploaded a video of the duo watching the launch show together last weekend.
Fans were sent into a frenzy by her tweets, speculating that they were growing closer with one of her 916,000 followers quipping: "Is this the 1st tweet in your new relationship! lol #strictly."
Meanwhile, Mollie and AJ aren't the only pair to be putting in the hours in rehearsals, as Ruth Langsford, 57, revealed her agonising aches and pains in a video with her husband Eamonn Holmes yesterday.
Strictly Come Dancing returns Saturday at 6.25pm on BBC One.