BURY actor Gemma Atkinson has confirmed rumours of her romance with Strictly's Gorka Marquez.

Speaking on the Key 103 breakfast show the former Emmerdale star told fellow hosts Mike Toolan and Matt Haslam that the pair had got together on the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour.

Gemma, however, insisted that the relationship had not started during the BBC competition last year, when she was partnered with Aljaz Skorjanec and Gorka with Alexandra Burke.

The couple had been spotted on a string of dates during Strictly's filming.

Speaking on Key 103 Gemma said: "Obviously we worked together, I’ve known him for six months now.

"During the show we only saw each other at weekends everyone was saying 'oh they're together' but we genuinely weren’t.

“We just went for coffee and stuff on Sundays, not every Sunday, you can’t get to know someone just by seeing them at weekends.

"It was only when the tour started that we saw each other all the time and we thought oh ok this could work, and it did, and it does so far."

The pair had been tight-lipped about relationship rumours before Gemma, aged 33, posted a Valentine's Day photo of the pair on a romantic getaway, on Instagram.

The snap shows the couple lounging on a Canary Island beach and is captioned: "Here's to many more kid. Happy Valentines Day @gorka_marquez."

The post also featured a kiss emoji and the image was shared by Gorka, aged 27, on his account.