Strictly Come Dancing's Sarah Handland and Vito Coppola
(Image: Vito Coppola Instagram)

BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Vito Coppola declares love in training - but not to Sarah Hadland

by · Manchester Evening News

Vito Coppola took a break from his Strictly Come Dancing training to declare his love - but not for his celebrity dance partner Sarah Hadland.

The pair had an emotional weekend in the ballroom as Sarah performed to a song close to her heart. The Miranda star and her Italian dance partner danced a Foxtrot to Birds Of A Feather by Billie Eilish, but ahead of their performance, Sarah broke into tears as she spoke about the importance of the song to her and her 'little one'.

Despite not getting their best scores and comments of the series, the pair made it through to week five of the BBC One dance contest and have since been back in training for their upcoming Samba to Do It Do It Again by Rafaella Carrà.

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With their next performance fast approaching, it seems Sarah decided to boost the mood in rehersals and brought along her beloved cat, Percy, to join them.

Taking to Instagram, Vito posted a string of pictures of him kissing and cuddling the adorable ginger and white cat. Captioning the post, the dancer wrote: "Finally I met Percy and I love him."

He went on to explain in the comments seciton of the post: "It took about half an hour to meet each other, but at the end we had our bond. I just love pet and all the animals on this planet. I think that they are better than us and they can definitely feel when people love them."

Vito got to meet Sarah's beloved cat
(Image: Vito Coppola Instagram)

And it didn't take his fans and followers long to respond. @fanny_lane52 said: "Awwwwwww Percy!!!! Percy is lucky to have met you Vito you are a beautiful man." @kate.roons laughed: "The famous Percy! He’s so cute and squishy, you too Vito." @jonnybinnswithin wrote: "Awwwwww both of you are too cute."

@mmmyummystrawberries commented: "Awwwww Percy!! This is the cutest!" @rachelhutchinson1995 replied: "Aww love this." @mattjg1711 shared: "Vito with a cat…this is all too much!" @meldn20 added: "So so sweet. You look like best friends already."