BBC issue Wynne Evans with warning after his sexual remark about Strictly co-star

Go Compare advert prima Wynne Evans, 52, is presently performing alongside pro dancer Katya Jones successful the Strictly Live Tour

Strictly prima Wynne Evans has been issued a informing by the BBC aft helium was caught making a intersexual remark astir a co-star connected tour.

The Go Compare advert star, 52, is presently performing alongside pro dancer Katya Jones successful the Strictly Live Tour. During a photocall successful Birmingham with chap formed stars JB Gill, Montell Douglas, Shayne Ward and Jamie Borthwick, Wynne made a lewd gag arsenic Janette Manrara walked over.

Evans has since apologised successful a statement: "My connection was inappropriate and unacceptable for which I sincerely apologise." A BBC spokesperson has besides confirmed that they person spoken to the opera vocalist and said they "do not tolerate specified behaviour". Tour producers person besides issued him with a warning.

A spokesperson for the Strictly unrecorded circuit and BBC Studios: “We were not antecedently alert of the remark and did not person immoderate complaints. We person made it precise wide to Wynne that we bash not tolerate specified behaviour connected the tour.”

As helium and the formed huddled unneurotic for a photo, Evans had been recorded making an inappropriate intersexual remark to Janette erstwhile she walked implicit to the group. He sang out: "Go Compare," earlier adding: "Not excessively adjacent to Jamie."

He past utilized the hugely demeaning word "spit roast" successful notation to a lewd intersexual enactment successful the video published by Daily Mail. Janette's absorption was unclear arsenic her look was momentarily covered by different Strictly stars. There was awkward laughter, with Jamie wincing arsenic Evans appeared to snigger astatine himself.

Evans precocious pulled retired of the Strictly tour's stint successful Glasgow owed to an ankle injury. He shared images of his bruised ankle successful a communicative connected Instagram. In a video posted connected the societal media tract connected Saturday evening, helium said: “Ankle’s getting a spot better, it was large to beryllium capable to sing successful Glasgow tonight, adjacent if I couldn’t dance, hopefully backmost tomorrow. But ticker this space, I’ll fto you cognize successful the morning. See however the swelling goes down, and each that benignant of stuff, acknowledgment for each the beauteous messages, amazing."

During his clip connected Strictly, Evans came nether occurrence arsenic helium appeared to 'grope' spouse Katya. The Welsh opera singer, 52, controversially placed his manus connected the waist of hisprofessional creation spouse earlier seeming to determination it person to her stomach. In the incidental a stony look Katya appeared to brushwood distant his manus arsenic the brace stood broadside by side.

While galore fans were outraged astatine his evident "grope", the brace described it arsenic a "silly wrong joke". Some, however, failed to bargain the apology and mentation and person called the singer's actions inappropriate. It made Katya and Wynne adjacent much determined to squash the backlash and interrupted their quality connected spin-off amusement It Takes Two.

Katya said: "Sorry Fleur [East], sorry, I volition get onto dancing I committedness but tin I delight archetypal get thing retired of the mode that I consciousness similar overshadowed our show for perfectly nary crushed and rather frankly, actually, I can't bare sitting present watching this antheral [Wynne] being portrayed arsenic idiosyncratic he's not.

"In fact, it couldn't beryllium further distant from the information truthful I person to marque this perfectly wide that this full incidental with the manus and the precocious 5 connected Saturday nighttime it was an wrong gag betwixt Wynne and I. Was it a silly joke? Yes! Was it a atrocious joke? Yes!" At this constituent Wynne interjected with: "Yeah and I've watched it back, I tin spot however radical whitethorn person misinterpreted it."

Katya went on: "Yeah but however, it was a gag and adjacent the thought that it made maine consciousness 'uncomfortable' oregon 'offended' successful anyhow is full nonsense. Those that person doubts, you guys person it got wrong! So hopefully this volition beryllium the extremity of it. You [Wynne] conscionable support making maine smile, please!"

The dancer defended Wynne connected Instagram arsenic good arsenic she said: "The manus incidental was a precise silly wrong gag betwixt Wynne and I. So adjacent the thought that it made maine consciousness uncomfortable oregon offended successful immoderate mode is implicit nonsense. It’s really absurd. So let’s absorption connected however brilliantly Wynne Evans is doing and what an astonishing dancer he’s becoming.”

Wynne had besides recovered himself astatine the centre of much play aft a "vulgar" gag helium reportedly made behind-the-scenes was "leaked". The opera vocalist is reported to person joled that his treble chin resembled a vagina arsenic helium got his make-up done backstage. Insiders told the Mirror that Wynne made the unsavoury gag up of the BBC's motorboat amusement and was said successful a backstage speech with a make-up artist.

A root told The Mirror: "It was a spot of a vulgar dada joke." At astatine slightest 1 different idiosyncratic was successful the country astatine the time, adding that the make-up creator was not offended by Wynne's joke. No authoritative complaints were made but immoderate unit were little than pleased. The root added: “Wynne intelligibly didn’t mean immoderate offence, but you person to beryllium a small spot cautious these days.”

The Mirror has contacted the BBC and Wynne's typical for comment.

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