Malaika Arora and Arjun Kapoor hold hands and twerk together on India's Got Talent 8 premiere

The eighth season of India's Got Talent premiered on October 20 on Colors. 'Namaste England' lead actors Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra joined Kirron Kher, Malaika Arora and Karan Johar on the judges' panel. 

Arjun has made appearances on the show earlier aswell but this time it was different. Instead of his film's heroine, he chose to sit beside his rumoured girlfriend Malaika. 

Although the two weren't seen sharing any noticeable moments on the panel, they did turn a lot of heads on the stage. After the performance of a twerk dancer, show hosts Rithvik Dhanjani and Bharti Singh invited Arjun and Malaika on the stage to shake their booty with the contestant. 

Arjun and Malaika climbed the stage hand-in-hand and also took some twerk lessons from the dancer. Interestingly, the channel, which otherwise shares minute to minute updates of premiere episodes, chose not to show Arjun and Malaika's clip. 

Watch the stunning performance that left #MalaikaArora and @karanjohar amazed! Watch #IGT8 starting tonight at 10pm@KirronKherBJP @arjunk26 @ParineetiChopra pic.twitter.com/drevCfvdU2

— COLORS (@ColorsTV) October 20, 2018

@arjunk26 takes twerk classes from #MalaikaArora blowing away @KirronKherBJP , @KaranJohar and @ParineetiChopra! #IGT8 pic.twitter.com/osecPanWv2

— COLORS (@ColorsTV) October 20, 2018

The rumour mills went into an overdrive earlier this year when Malaika and Arjun chose to sit side by side at Lakme Fashion Week 2018. Later, they were also spotted arriving in the same car for Sandeep Khoshla's private bash. 

For years, Malaika and Arjun kept people speculating about their relationship status. While the two were spotted at each other's places quite often in the past few years, both Malaika and Arjun maintained a tight-lipped stance regarding the equation they share. However, things seem to have changed drastically. They both seem to be on a complete 'Pyaar kiya toh darna kya mode', now.

"Malaika is no longer keen to hide her proximity to Arjun. When she was with Arbaaz, the Khan family, especially Salman, made their disapproval very clear. But now that she has broken away from Arbaaz, she sees no reason to be coy about her closeness to Arjun. Besides, Arbaaz is also seeing someone else now," Deccan Chronicle had earlier quoted a source as saying.

Malaika and Arbaaz Khan's divorce was finalised in 2017. The two parted ways in 2016. When Malaika and Arbaaz announced their separation, her closeness with Arjun Kapoor was rumoured to be one of the strongest reasons behind her marriage breaking.

In an interview to DNA in 2016, Malaika had addressed the speculation about her rapport with Arjun and said, "Arjun is a very good friend of mine. But people give a very different meaning to it which isn't true."