Former Strictly Come Dancing winner Joe McFadden has rubbished claims he refused to appear on the show after falling out with producers.
The actor laughed at the “nonsense” allegation when quizzed about it on Thursday’s episode of Loose Women.
Traditionally, the winner of the last Strictly series will be invited to perform on the new series launch show, which took place earlier this month.
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But Joe and his pro dance partner Katya Jones bucked the trend and didn’t show up. That (of course!) led to rumblings of a falling out between Joe and producers.
But appearing on Loose Women, Joe said that was “nonsense” and he had a simple reason for being absent: he had been in Scotland for a friend’s wedding!
Nadia Sawalha said: “There was a bit of fuss in the papers saying you’d fallen out with producers and that was why you weren’t at the opening?”
Joe laughed: “Nonsense! You don’’”
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