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Wynne Evans' friends 'insist talk of his career ending is "premature" and defend his inappropriate jokes as "schoolboy comedy"' while his Strictly co-stars 'rally around him' in wake of his withdrawal from the live tour


The opera singer, 53, has been embroiled in controversy after he was caught on film by The Mail on Sunday this month making a vile sexual comment about one of the show's female hosts

Wynne Evans ' friends have allegedly insisted that his career has not been destroyed and claimed his 'spit-roast' slur was only 'schoolboy comedy', after he withdrew from the Strictly Come Dancing live tour on Tuesday (pictured in September) The opera singer, 53, has been embroiled in controversy after he was caught on film by The Mail on Sunday this month making a vile sexual comment about one of the show's female hosts (pictured on tour with partner Katya Jones) After the divorce he was forced to leave the family home he shared with their kids daughter Ismay, and son, Taliesin - moving into a 'sad' derelict house with boarded up windows in Cardiff as that was all he could afford at the time.

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