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Tom Bryant

Strictly champions Kelvin Fletcher and Oti Mabuse enjoy 3am nightcap at hotel

Strictly champions Kelvin Fletcher and Oti Mabuse are snapped heading into a hotel for drinks at 3.35am.

The pair arrived at the Sanctum Soho in London on Friday after partying with dancers and celebrities from the hit BBC show.

Former Emmerdale actor Kelvin, 36, was away from his family for the Strictly Live Tour.

Oti, 29, was working on BBC contest The Greatest Dancer.

A source close to them said they had drinks and both went home.

They added: “It was perfectly innocent. They wanted a few more drinks and the bar was still serving.

"There were other people, such as Bradley Wiggins, in the bar. They are just friends.”

The Strictly group stayed at the InterContinental, next to the O2 where the tour was held on Friday, Saturday and its finale tonight.

Kelvin, who wed Liz Marsland in 2015, met Oti again on Saturday, arriving at a four-star hotel at 11pm.

Oti, who was earlier on The Greatest Dancer’s live show, arrived 20 minutes later.

A source said: “Oti wanted to talk to a friend as she lost her act on Greatest Dancer.

"They didn’t want to go to for drinks at Kelvin’s hotel as there are lots of fans.

"They were there until midnight having drinks and both went home.”

Kelvin and Oti, who wed Marius Lepure in 2014, won Strictly in December and Kelvin has commented on their chemistry.

He said: “Why else do we watch Strictly? "You’ve got these people and they have to look so majestic and beautiful and the story looks like, ‘Oh there’s something going on there’.

“If you’ve not bought into it, there’s something missing.

"So I hope people watch me and Oti and see whatever narrative it is – whether that be we’re in love – I want people to believe it. If there’s not that feeling, my wife will be first to pull me up, because she wants to believe it too.

“I’m lucky, she’s known me since I was eight and we’re very happily married.

"And she’s watched me kiss actresses on Emmerdale. So we haven’t had the ‘Strictly curse’ conversation. Perhaps we should!”

Kelvin said after winning that his first thought was his family.

He said: “I’ve felt guilty being away from them so I will take them away and just see them and hold them.”

Kelvin last week posted

a snap of Liz and kids Marnie, three, and Milo, one, saying that he was “counting down the days” until he was reunited with them after the tour.

Talking of her chemistry with Kelvin previously, Oti said it was just “acting”. A spokesman for Kelvin and Oti declined to comment last night.

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