Helen Skelton jokes her ‘legs are like jelly’ after Strictly Come Dancing rehearsals with Gorka Marquez

Helen Skelton has joked about the impact rehearsals with her Strictly Come Dancing professional dance partner has been having on her body.

The Countryfile presenter, 39, who lives in Cumbria, has been busy rehearsing with her Spanish professional partner Gorka Marquez ahead of Saturday night’s live show.

The Strictly duo will perform the Jive to Tightrope by Janelle Monae, as they compete to make it through to week eight of the BBC show.

Gorka, who boasts over 716,000 Instagram followers, took to his story after a long day of rehearsals yesterday to give his fans a “day two update”.

Gorka said: “Day two update. We just finished rehearsals, well rehearsals finished with us.”

Laughing, Helen added: “It was a big day, my legs are like jelly.”

Gorka then complained that he had lost his legs, to which the mother-of-three responded: “It’s really rewarding though when you’re broken as well.”

The Jive is an energetic and upbeat dance, which includes lots of kicking and spinning. The dance style originated in the United States in the early 1930’s.

Gorka explained that “eight hours of jive is quite intense”, before adding that the “routine is looking good” and they are “having fun doing it”.

Helen said: “It’s a good song, it’s a good routine, good hat work, and I just need pointier feet.”

Today, Gorka admitted that he has had two coffees to fuel their third day of rehearsals.

“Building up to jive,” Helen said.

Gorka continued: “Having some caffiene, loads of caffiene.”

He joked about having had seven cups of coffee, before revealing that two is enough and they have mentally prepared for rehearsals.