STRICTLY star Nick Knowles said women in the North East were “munters” in a sleazy chat with a young charity worker, it was claimed last night. The TV favourite, 62, allegedly made a string of lewd and offensive remarks to the woman and ogled her breasts while filming BBC show DIY SOS: The Big Build. It left the 33-year-old support worker feeling embarrassed and mortified, she claimed.
The mum of one said she was interviewed by Knowles in 2018 for an episode of the show about a home renovation for a young blind girl with a genetic disorder. She claims he turned up late after boozing the night before — and later kipped in a van. Knowles was said to have been hung over, looked worse for wear and stank of stale booze and cigarettes after partying at North Shields Fish Quay.
READ MORE ON NICK KNOWLES When the then 26-year-old dropped her microphone down her blouse, the star allegedly said: “It’s a shame that’s not a camera.” And while recounting his big night out, she claims he branded the women of North Shields “munters”, and said she was the “first good-looking woman he had seen” while in the North East . She told The Sun: “I was mortified.
He humiliated me in a very personal way in front of the whole crew. It was offensive. He was in his late 50s.
He was being so inappropriate and I felt belittled. “I had been looking forward to meeting him and he ruined the whole experience for me.” Most read in News TV The woman, who has asked not to be identified.
