Wynne Evans shares full apology video which he claims BBC ‘cut short’

Wynne Evans has shared a full apology video from Strictly Come Dancing which he claims the BBC ordered him to cut short.

The Welsh opera singer, 53, was fired from the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour earlier this year, and recently dropped from his BBC Radio Wales rolling contract after a string of controversies.

This week, he insisted during an interview with This Morning that an apology he and Katya Jones shared during last year’s Strictly series was originally meant to be longer.

The singer and his professional dance partner sparked controversy when she appeared to move his hand from her waist, which he said was ‘just a body language experiment that was picked up on’.

He added on This Morning: ‘Katya said to me, “Put your hand on my waist, I’ll move it back, we’ll see if anybody picks it up [on social media],” and boy did they pick it up.’

The pair shared a brief apology video at the time, but he has now shared a different version which is 50 seconds long instead of the 10 second clip that got published.

”Hello everyone. We felt the need to clarify something,’ Katya said at the start of the longer backstage video. ‘We find it quite fascinating how people take time to look into in such detail every gesture, every look.’

Wynne added: ‘So we thought we’ll mess around. And we said, “Oh I’ll put my hand on your waist, you pretend to move it away and let’s see who notices it.”

‘And now everybody thinks I’m a weirdo. But really I promise you I’m not. And we’re doing this high ten thing as well where she blanks me from a high ten.’

The pair insisted it was ‘all sort of planned just to see if anybody notices’, while Katya said they wanted to ‘clarify that it’s all just messing around’.

‘He’s not a creep,’ she added. ‘But he’s a brilliant dancer.’

Wynne captioned the newly shared clip: ‘The video that was too long for @bbcstrictly @bbccymruwales I think this tells it as it was.’

However, the BBC has insisted ‘all parties agreed’ that the shorter version was the best way forward.

A spokesperson told Metro: ‘For the avoidance of doubt, the video in question was filmed twice and all parties agreed at the time that the second more concise version would be better suited for social media.’

On This Morning, Wynne admitted he can ‘totally understand’ how people were confused and ‘upset’ by the stunt.

He said: ‘I don’t want to sit here today, coming across as a victim because I’m not. I totally understand why people were upset by that and I get it.’

However, he argued that the decision to only share a 10-second apology was still ‘the wrong decision’.

Earlier this year, Wynne was sensationally dumped from the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour over comments he made involving host Janette Manrara.

The ‘unacceptable’ joke referenced having a threesome with the dancer, 41.

Soon after he apologised, saying he was ‘deeply sorry for the pain my inappropriate action caused’ and would take a break from the public eye for ‘self-reflection’ and to ‘prioritise my wellbeing’.

And the BBC later decided not to renew his one-year rolling BBC Radio contract following a four-month investigation.

He confirmed in an Instagram statement: ‘It breaks my heart to say the BBC has decided not to renew my contract, so I won’t be returning to my radio show. I’m gutted.

‘That show wasn’t just work — it was home. It was us. We laughed, we cried, we sang like nobody was listening. And somehow, through the airwaves, we became a family.’

Metro has contacted BBC and reps for Wynne Evans for comment.

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