Gemma Atkinson smiling with her hair in a ponytail© Karwai Tang

Gemma Atkinson makes subtle change to £1.3k thigh-split dress

The Hollyoaks actress and her Strictly star fiancé wore matching black outfits at the Pride of Britain Awards

Deputy Lifestyle Editor
October 22, 2024

Gorka Marquez may have been gilded in embellishments, but it was his fiancée Gemma Atkinson who brought the drama to the Pride of Britain red carpet.

The former Strictly Come Dancing star – who met Gorka while competing on the BBC show in 2017 – was pictured at the Grosvenor House Hotel on 21 October in a striking black gown. 

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Designed by Tarik Ediz, it featured a sweetheart neckline, off-the-shoulder balloon sleeves, a ruched bodice that emphasised her figure and a split that showed off her gym-honed legs.

Gemma revealed she sourced the gown through Cult Mia, and it appears to be the £1,295 'Elzara' dress which she had tweaked to remove the back clasp and move the shoulderline.

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She finished off her look with sparkling Aariya earrings and matching rings, and pointed-toe heels from Club L London.

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Beauty-wise, Gemma styled her blonde hair in a slicked-back ponytail and highlighted her natural beauty with a glowing base and lashings of mascara.

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She perfectly coordinated with Gorka, who cut a dapper figure in an all-black embellished suit that wouldn't look out of place on the Strictly dancefloor.

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The couple were pictured sharing a joke on the red carpet.

"For 5hrs we got to act and look like we weren’t exhausted, overstimulated and concerned about our house being on its arse," she captioned an Instagram post of the pair.

Fitness secrets

Gemma has long been a source of fitness inspiration with the former Hollyoaks star often sharing glimpses inside her gruelling workouts on social media.

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The duo often work out in their home gym

Hitting her home gym with Gorka and their kids Mia and Thiago is always balanced out with comfort foods she loves. The actress previously explained to The Telegraph: "If, for example, I have a photoshoot that I need to look and feel my best for, then I give myself two weeks and that’s it. 

"And I know if I just tighten my diet and up my cardio for those two weeks, I’ll be where I need to be and that’s because for the rest of the year I stick to the principles of my book.

"I still have pizza at the weekend, eat pic n’ mix in the cinema and I’m still hungover some Sundays. It’s not a case of just living off chicken and broccoli."

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The couple share two kids

She added that she "relaxed my diet completely" while on Strictly, which saw her train for hours every day with Aljaz Skorjanec. 

"Me and Aljaž trained above the Cadbury’s shop, in Manchester, so we ate chocolate every day. At dinner, we’d just go down and get a white chocolate Toblerone.

"Me and Aljaž used to joke that my dresses were getting tighter and tighter. But I didn’t stress about gaining weight, I loved the experience. And by the January I was back to what I used to be anyway," Gemma said.

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