HE was everybody’s favourite opera vocalist from the world’s astir annoying advert – bursting with imaginable connected the creation floor.
But contiguous Wynne Evans is astatine the centre of different Strictly contention and fans person been near baffled astir wherefore his travel connected the creation contention went truthful wrong?
The Welsh opera singer, 52, was incapable to creation astatine past night’s unrecorded circuit halt successful Glasgow owed to an ankle injury.
Behind the scenes though, helium had thing overmuch much important going connected – helium was being quizzed implicit his latest gaffe.
Just past week helium was recorded suggesting a three-way enactment session with presenter Janette Manrara, utilizing the word "spit roast".
His remark came astatine a photocall to motorboat the Strictly unrecorded tour, which pro Janette, 41, is hosting.
He reportedly pulled a suggestive look astatine histrion Jamie Borthwick arsenic Janette moved betwixt them — which is erstwhile Evans allegedly made the joke.
Wynne has apologised saying: "My connection was inappropriate and unacceptable, for which I sincerely apologise."
BBC and Strictly Live producers said: "We person made it wide to Wynne we bash not tolerate specified behaviour connected tour."
Janette's spokeswoman said she had been "unaware of this comment".
'Grope' joke
It comes conscionable months aft Wynne and his pro spouse Katya Jones were forced to accidental atrocious for a "joke" that saw her determination his manus from her waist during the BBC show.
In different moment, Jones appeared to not privation to high-five her celebrity partner, which they called "a moving joke".
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Wynne revealed his upset implicit the situation, telling his Radio Wales listeners: "I'm perfectly heartbroken by the things that person been written astir maine successful the past day.
"It's not nice to unrecorded successful that time, but fundamentally Katya and I are really, truly adjacent and we're truly bully friends, and connected Saturday nighttime we made a anserine joke.
"It was a anserine gag that went wrong, OK? We thought it was funny. It wasn't funny.
"It was been wholly misinterpreted."
At the clip Katya insisted that the contention had overshadowed their show “for perfectly nary reason”.
She added: “Quite frankly I really can’t carnivore sitting present watching this antheral being portrayed arsenic idiosyncratic he’s not.
"In information it couldn’t beryllium further distant from the truth.
“So I person to marque perfectly clear, that this full incidental with the manus and the precocious 5 connected Saturday night, it was an wrong joke between Wynne and I.
“Was it a silly joke? Yes. Was it a atrocious joke? Yes.
“However, it was a gag and adjacent the thought that it made maine consciousness uncomfortable oregon offended successful immoderate mode is wholly nonsense.
“Those that person doubts, you guys person got it wrong.
"So hopefully this volition beryllium the extremity of it.”
Unfortunately it wasn’t the extremity of it for the brace and they ended up getting the footwear not agelong after.
Crude comment
It past emerged that Wynne travel nether occurrence again for allegedly telling a "crude" gag to 1 of the show's make-up artists.
Insiders assertion the opera star made a gag that the folds of his treble chin "looked similar a vagina".
According to the Mirror, helium made the remark up of the Strictly Come Dancing launch amusement past month.
A root told the outlet: “It was a spot of a vulgar dada joke.”
No authoritative ailment has been made, and the insider added: “Wynne intelligibly didn’t mean immoderate offence, but you person to beryllium a small spot cautious these days.”
Chaperones person been enactment successful spot connected Strictly during rehearsals past twelvemonth aft a review was launched by the BBC pursuing contestant complaints.
Wynne besides performed successful the 25th day of The Phantom Of The Opera and won 2023's Celebrity MasterChef.