Ellie Leach of Strictly Come Dancing has revealed how much weight she has shed since beginning training with her dance partner Vito Coppola.
Except for Sundays, the 22-year-old Coronation Street star and Vito, 31, train every day between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.
When she’s not in the rehearsal studio, the actress says she’s practising Vito-recommended exercises to strengthen her posture and strength.
Ellie confirmed in a new interview: ‘I’ve lost a lot of weight.’
She added to OK!: ‘You’re training so much. I still need to work on my fitness levels but even the dance we’re doing this week, I wouldn’t have been able to do three weeks ago.’
‘I’ve never really been into physical exercise or going to the gym and anything like that,’ the singer said of her fitness regimen before joining the famous BBC show.
‘But I’ve always loved watching people dance. So to be able to learn how to do it now, it’s amazing.’
She also said Strictly has changed her ‘body and mindset’ for the better.
Ellie and Vito are presently the subject of romance allegations after Amanda Abbington appeared to declare the two were an official couple just days ago, and they’ve since been caught getting fairly cosy.
Ellie has now revealed how important her boyfriend is to her, stating she’d be ‘lost’ on the dancing without him.
In a clip on Friday’s It Takes Two, she said: ‘I don’t even want to think about taking to the dancefloor without Vito.
‘I would be completely lost. It would be my worst nightmare.’
Ellie and Vito have been open about their feelings for each other in recent days, even kissing during a live TV interview.
During an interview on The One Show, Lauren Laverne questioned them what they thought of the claims they were giving off ‘final vibes’.
Vito grew passionate in response, planting a kiss on Ellie and giving her a huge embrace while showering her with accolades.
‘To be honest, we don’t really think about the final as a final – we want to live and enjoy every single week, [doing] baby steps, small but solid, and [if] it comes, it comes,’ the Italian dancer told Lauren and co-host Ronan Keating.
