It’s only been a matter of weeks since the vivacious singer Fleur East was paired with Italian dance pro Vito Coppola in Strictly Come Dancing, but already it seems like they’ve been friends for years.
“Meeting Vito for the first time, I experienced the strangest feeling,” 34-year-old Fleur tells hello!. “When it was revealed that we’d be dancing together, I screamed and ran to hug him. As we started talking it was as if I knew him already.”
This extraordinary sense of familiarity was mutual. “I told her: ‘Fleur, I have this feeling about you,’ and she said she had it, too,” recalls Vito, an 11-time Latin and ballroom champion who recently moved. “I knew her music and danced to her songs, but we’d never met.”
