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Charlotte Everett

Strictly Come Dancing stars reunite to surprise Janette Manrara with sweet baby shower

Strictly Come Dancing stars have reunited to celebrate Janette Manrara's baby shower together.

The mum-to-be announced earlier this year that she is expecting her first child with her husband Aljaž Škorjanec, who she wed back in 2017.

As the exciting day approaches, the former Strictly professional dancer was treated to a baby shower by her fellow Strictly professional dancer friends.

Katya Jones and Ashley Roberts organised the special celebration for their friend.

Dragons' Den star Sara Davies, who was partnered with Aljaž when she was on Strictly, took to her Instagram page to tell her followers about Janette's baby shower.

In a story, she wrote: "So the reason I was on the train to London early this morning was because @katyajones and @iamashleyroberts were throwing a surprise baby shower for our lovely Janette!

Sara Davies gushed over the special day (Instagram)
Janette announced her pregnancy in February (Instagram)

"It was just beautiful! @alijazskorjanec’s sister — @laralijubic flew over yesterday to get the room ready with all the fabulous balloons and decorations."

The day just kept getting better and better as Janette's friends organised for her mother to be flown in to surprise her.

Sara said: "So she arrived and was thrilled and then we were all sitting watching videos from her family back in Miami when we cut from a video of her mom to her actual mom walking in (we’d flown her over as a massive surprise — and you can see it really was a total surprise!)."

Katya Jones helped to organise (Instagram)
Janette was surrounded by friends and family (Instagram)

During the day, Sara shared stories showing Katya who she named "organiser extraordinaire" as she played pin the dummy on the baby.

Julien McDonald was at the event as he participated in an arts and crafts activity.

Later on Sara shared a final post about the baby shower, writing: "Had the most wonderful afternoon! It was @jmanrara’s baby shower!"

"Huge thanks to @katyajones and @iamashleyroberts for organising everything and to @1warwicksoho for hosting us and @laraljubic for the beautiful decorations! The whole afternoon was perfect!"

Janette recently opened up about being advised to have an elective C-section.

She said she was told by doctors that due to the size of her baby being bigger than average that it would be a safer option.

"It looks like we have a bigger than average size baby, but I’m not an average size human and because of the width of my hips it’s advised that I get a C-section," she told Hello! magazine.

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