Strictly Come Dancing star Adam Peaty is putting all his energy into intense 14 hours a day training sessions after his 'near kiss' with partner Katya Jones sent fans into a spin on Saturday night.
As he headed back to rehearsal this week, triple Olympic Champion Adam, posed for a selfie at five in the morning as he prepared to meet with Katya for a very early start.
The couple wowed Strictly viewers with their sizzling Argentine tango at the weekend and wound up joint second on the leaderboard, alongside Tilly Ramsay and Nikita Kuzmin, with a score of 32.
A delighted Katya shared a clip of the powerful routine to Instagram afterwards and gushed "And we're through to week 5!
"We would never take your support for granted! Every week is a new challenge and we will carry on pushing ourselves as long as you let us. Argentine tango week was a real break through for @adam_peaty."
And their fancy footwork wasn't the only thing to draw raise eyebrows as fans speculated after the pair ended the passionate performance with a 'near kiss'.
But Adam has hit out since and chose to share three photos - one of him and Katya dancing and two of the son he shares with longtime girlfriend Eirianedd Munro.
"We go again, thankyou so much for all your support! Such a relief!" he began.
"To everyone who sees what they want to see, your comments have real life consequences. I will not be lowered or overcome by your gossip. Protect your energy. Great to spend some much needed time today with my boy."
But Eirian also took the scenes in good jest and Eirianedd herself shared on Tik Tok andwrote in the caption: "Watching your boyfriend almost kiss another women on live TV" as she pretended to cry. She then tipped her head back and fake screamed as the words "Finding out 10 million people also watched it live' appeared on the screen."
Adam and Eiri have been dating since they first met on Tinder and welcomed their son George on 11 September 2020.
The long-running BBC show has become tainted by the so called 'Strictly Curse' where other celebs ended up falling for their dance partners.
Katya herself was sparked controversy when she was photographed kissing her 2018 dance partner Seann Walsh, despite both being in relationships, and were forced to apologise for their antics on Strictly spin of show It Takes Two branding the snog a 'drunken one off mistake'.
This week Sara Davies and Aljaz Skorjanec were awarded the highest scores of the night for their Tango to Por Una Cabeza by Carlos.
