Cha-cha-charming Kristina on the Costa

Strictly Come Dancing’s Kristina Rihanoff enjoys sunshine breaks to the Costa del Sol. And she combined her latest visit with some sizzling master dance classes for guests at CLC’s Club La Costa World resort.

Kristina is pictured with her dance pupils as she put them through their paces before she judged the CLC World-Kristina Rihanoff Cha Cha Cha Championships, which took place poolside at San Diego Suites.

The Strictly star was full of praise for her enthusiastic pupils, some of whom were complete novices, and told them that it usually took two full days of training to bring her TV celebrity dancers up to the same level.

Kristina joins the other programme professionals in mid-August to start preparing for the show’s next season. “Everyone asks me whether we know which celebrity we will be dancing with before the show starts. Well, I can tell you it’s exactly how you see it on television. It’s all announced live on the first programme so it’s a big surprise to us all,” said the dance star, who was dramatically dragged along the floor by TV political correspondent John Sergeant in a memorable Paso Doble.