Footage has proven the second Strictly Come Dancing’s Wynne Evans was ‘banished’ by his co-stars after he was caught on digital camera making a vile sexual jibe.
The Go Examine star, 52, joined his fellow stars collaborating in their very own model of The Traitors throughout the present’s dwell tour.
The clip, which was shared on Janette’s Manrara’s Instagram Tales earlier than footage of Wynne’s remark emerged, confirmed the Strictly stars collaborating of their first roundtable, and after Wynne was banished, he dramatically revealed he was a Traitor.
The Strictly solid first took half in their very own of the long-lasting BBC murder-mystery throughout final yr’s tour, with its stars documenting the sport on social media.
Wynne was not too long ago recorded crudely suggesting a three-way intercourse session with presenter Janette, utilizing the time period ‘spit roast.’
His gross remark got here at a photocall to launch the Strictly dwell tour and swiftly earned a rebuke from BBC bosses who instructed him: ‘We won’t tolerate such behaviour.’
Footage has proven the second Strictly Come Dancing’s Wynne Evans was ‘banished’ by his co-stars after he was caught on digital camera making a vile sexual jibe
Wynne was not too long ago recorded crudely suggesting a three-way intercourse session with presenter Janette, utilizing the time period ‘spit roast’
Hours after the footage emerged, Janette was seen partying along with her Strictly co-stars as they celebrated the birthday of dancer Jake Leigh, although Wynne was noticeably absent.
In a clip shared on her Tales, she joined stars together with Dianne Buswell, Tasha Ghouri and Michelle Tsiakkas within the bar of their lodge in Glasgow.
Strictly pressured to cancel its Friday night time present on the OVO Hydro as a consequence of Storm Eowyn, with the present now going down on Sunday.
This isn’t the primary time Evans has threatened the status of the BBC’s largest present because it makes an attempt to get better from a string of scandals.
Throughout final yr’s televised reveals, he was accused of ‘groping’ his dance companion Katya though the pair dismissed it as a joke that had been misunderstood.
Evans’s newest crass feedback got here as he posed for footage with Ms Manrara, 41, an expert dancer who’s internet hosting the dwell tour, and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick, 30.
The response of Janette is unclear on the footage as she is momentarily obscured by different Strictly stars. However Borthwick seems to wince as Evans sniggers to himself.
Wynne pulled out of a Glasgow efficiency of the Strictly tour earlier this week, citing an ankle damage. However he instructed The Mail on Sunday: ‘My language was inappropriate and unacceptable, for which I sincerely apologise.’
The clip, which was shared on Janette’s Manrara’s Instagram Tales earlier than footage of Wynne’s remark emerged, confirmed the Strictly stars collaborating of their first roundtable
Hours after the footage emerged, Janette was seen partying along with her Strictly co-stars as they celebrated the birthday of dancer Jake Leigh, although Wynne was noticeably absent
A spokesman for BBC Studios and the Strictly Reside tour producers mentioned: ‘We weren’t beforehand conscious of the comment and didn’t obtain any complaints.
‘Now we have made it very clear to Wynne that we don’t tolerate such behaviour on the tour.’
The incident was captured on video and audio by a Mail on Sunday reporter on the official launch of this yr’s tour on the Birmingham Area ten days in the past, and brings new embarrassment to the BBC after a string of scandals.
Within the worst, information anchor Huw Edwards was convicted of accessing indecent photos of kids as younger as seven.
Later Gregg Wallace was pressured to step away from MasterChef amid allegations of sexually inappropriate behaviour. And Strictly itself, lengthy celebrated as healthful leisure, was itself affected by controversy.
Within the footage, Evans, a presenter on BBC Radio Wales, stands in the midst of a line-up of 20 celebrities and dancers as Ms Manrara, who hosts the TV spin-off Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two, is summoned to affix them. As she approaches, Evans warns her with a smile: ‘Not too near Jamie!’
He then pulls a suggestive face on the actor, behind Ms Manrara’s again, as she strikes between them. It’s at this level that Evans makes his disgusting joke at her expense.
Seconds later, her dancer husband Aljaz Skorjanec, who was standing close by, asks her: ‘Darling, are you OK?’ She replies curtly: ‘Yep.’
On Saturday, Janette’s spokeswoman mentioned the host had been ‘unaware of this remark by Wynne’ which was audible to our reporter filming with a cell phone 20 yards away.
Along with showing on Strictly final yr, father-of-two Evans gained Celeb MasterChef in 2023. His new BBC1 journey present, All At Sea, with Gavin and Stacey star Joanna Web page, begins tomorrow night time.
That his ‘spit-roast’ remark was made at a media occasion will infuriate Company bosses nonetheless struggling to restore Strictly’s tainted picture following bullying complaints and junior employees’s claims of a ‘poisonous’ behind-the-scenes tradition.
Three days into rehearsals in 2023, actress Amanda Abbington complained about her dance companion Giovanni Pernice.
A yr later the BBC apologised to her, upholding verbal bullying and harassment complaints however clearing Pernice of bodily aggression.
Then Graziano Di Prima was sacked after footage from rehearsals confirmed him kicking Love Island star Zara McDermott.
Final yr Evans gained thousands and thousands of Strictly followers together with his jollity and willpower to be taught to bop, however then abruptly confronted criticism after viewers noticed a grimacing Ms Jones forcibly eradicating his hand because it strayed throughout her waist as they confronted the cameras backstage.
Afterwards Evans tried to present his companion a excessive 5, however she shot him a scathing look, rolled her eyes and turned away.
Trying to defuse the row, Evans and Ms Jones mentioned they had been ‘simply messing round’ and that it was a ‘very foolish inside joke’.
Wynne’s gross remark got here at a photocall to launch the Strictly dwell tour and swiftly earned a rebuke from bosses who instructed him: ‘We won’t tolerate such behaviour’ (Janette pictured)
However two weeks later the Welsh tenor’s ‘jokes’ brought about additional controversy when he advised to a make-up artist that the folds of his double chin appeared like a vagina.
Evans apparently insisted his joke was self-deprecating, didn’t trigger offence and was made in a personal dialog with not less than one different individual within the room. It’s unclear if a criticism was made or whether or not the incident was investigated.
Per week after the ‘spit-roasting’ remark Evans appeared on The One Present to speak concerning the ‘banter’ on tour. He mentioned: ‘It is enjoyable… Craig [Revel Horwood] known as me yesterday, he mentioned I used to be stompy and flat-footed.
‘So I mentioned: ‘Have you ever heard your album, mate, that is stompy and flat if ever I’ve heard it!’ So yeah, there’s numerous banter.
‘He gave me a two yesterday, so I used to be completely gutted, simply because I used to be a bit impolite about his album.’
Evans suffered medical melancholy and his weight rose to 22 stone after he and his spouse of 17 years, Tanwen, determined to get divorced in 2016.
He’s now courting Liz Brookes, aged 50, an occasions supervisor and health fanatic credited together with his dramatic seven-stone weight reduction.
