pro Gorka Márquez has shared how his dad reacted to him first dating Gemma Atkinson. The professional dancer, 33, and the former Hollyoaks actress, 39, have been engaged since 2021 and share two children together, four-year-old daughter Mia and 11-month-old son Thiago. The couple first met on Come Dancing in 2017, however, she was parted with his co-star pal Aljaž Škorjanec.
The couple only became close as they did the Strictly tour after the show. Gorka didn't know who Gemma was before meeting her and said he had to "Google her" - but he wasn't the only one to do so. Gorka exclusively told Daily Star: "It is quite funny actually as when I told my dad who Gemma was, my dad Googled her name.
"He said 'She's beautiful' and I then Googled her and the first picture that came up was one of her calendar pictures. So, I was like 'Oh, great..
.' he laughed. Back in the noughties, Gemma shot to fame after playing Lisa Hunter in Hollyoaks and she then went on to have a successful glamour modelling career - resulting in her creating some smoking hot calendars.
In other news, Gorka is promoting a new tour titled Speakeasy with his Strictly co-star Karen Hauer. Gorka told us: "We're going to be bringing the audience into what feels like an undercover world, like if they were to go to an underground club, where everything is undercover and secret and very smoky. "It's like a journey through the eras, if you look back through the years, like in the 20s, the 40s then back to the 70s, we.
