AIBU to feel sorry for Wynne Evans?

He talked about it in 2024. He may have experienced it before but that’s not years spent normalising it.
You know nothing about me but are willing to say I have lots to learn. But a celebrity man you leap to defend. Sorry that I don’t have a dick.

He has talked about his mental health loads, and has done much to normalise that years before any of this happened. You sound like you could learn something from that. He does have mental health issues.

I find it quite bizarre that people are so trusting of the tabloids to be honest. There is no way this has been reported honestly and accurately, and the accusations themselves are pretty flimsy even then. There's nothing to prove he's a misogynistic dinosaur. He may be, but there's not enough evidence to state that yet.

Yes let’s all feel sorry for men who when they get caught out as misogynistic dinosaurs play the mental health card. Wah wah.
I’ve been there feeling suicidal, because my mental health fell apart not cos I got called out for being a twat.

Yes exactly.

Katya has repeatedly defending him, I don't think she'd be shy in complaining if he acted inappropriately.

The sex toy was daft but blown out of proportion.

No one has made a complaint against him, it just seems to be tabloid fodder.

I feel bad, I believed their narrative and that he was a creep, before listening to his side.

Reminds you that there are real people behind the headlines. Poor guy was on suicide watch.

He just used that as a reason to sell stories about himself. His agent told him to say it probably.

Nobody else who works as an extra in adverts 'needs' to go on telly moaning about how the public won't leave them alone!
Counterproductive one would think.

And he got kicked off the adverts because of the strictly debacle.

I'd like to pitch Celebrity Beast Island, like Love Island but the twist is they don't get to leave.

He’s an idiot . Was given golden opportunities and threw them away with his vile ‘ jokes ‘

I don't watch Strictly so don't really know what went on and don't really care. However I disagree that hr should have had to give up the ads because some people were so thick they thought it was ok to be abusive

Oh well, that’s ok then 🙄.

All of these male celebrities have pretty much done these things infront of an audience because they think they are funny/amazing, but mainly untouchable. And now they are learning the hard way that we are in 2025, not 1975.

He was in front of a load of press! Hardly hiding it.

He stated he didn’t know the cameras were still rolling when he said it, which actually gives weight to the fact he knew it was wrong!

The fact he said it on camera gives weight to the fact that he didn't mean anything by it. If it was a nickname then he wouldn't be watching where he said it.

There is a lot of evidence that supports his version of events, but regardless he was stupid to expect people to get the context when you have to look for that. The Daily Mail don't care if it's true or not, and they're certainly not giving a balanced version of events.

It'll get to the point where nobody will go on those shows, because one questionable move and it's your career over.

But why would the term 'spit roast' even be in Evans' head in public and in front of reporters at a press call ? (Not that it would have been okay in a professional environment without reporters there).

He knows exactly what it means and I don't for one second buy the 'explanation' he and Borthwick have cooked up. And it wasn't the first time he'd been warned, it's just he was let off the hook previously.

I can't find a violin tiny enough.

Katya said what the BBC told her to say if she wanted to keep her job. They have treated her appallingly.

Well Katya has defended him loads of times and says nothing happened. She's posted about how she's missing her "darling boy". Wynne has posted a video of them doing the high five joke numerous times so apparently it was indeed a running joke between them.

No complaints were received about the spit roast comment, according to the BBC themselves, until the Daily Mail video. Wynne said he called Borthwick "spit roast boy" and the video seems to back that up.

I think it's juvenile nonsense, but to call him a "perv" is unjustified with what we've seen.

I feel sorry for katya and Jeanette who had to put up the groping and degrading comments in their workplace

Are you sure the women involved did not complain? Unless you are inside the BBC I am not clear how we can know that.

I suppose they’ve had so many shamed celebrities in the bbc they could create a series out of it and we vote them off 🤣

Ha! Absolutely brilliant! .

Wynne is a celebrity in Wales, everyone knows him and his radio show was really refreshingly nice.

The complaints about his behaviour weren't made by the women involved.

I think he is guilty of stupidity, and childishness, but a perv? No I don't think we have sufficient evidence of that yet.

I actually know him personally, and when we were working together he was a.) totally hilarious and so much fun to work with, b). Such a nice man and colleague, and actually stood up for me when there was a predatory male singer making crude sexual comments about me behind my back. I haven't been in touch in recent years but cannot believe that he's had a personality transplant since then!

He bought it for the other idiot - Jamie Borthwick when they were doing Strictly and a video was made about it.
My point being is it was very much Wynne crossing those boundaries during Strictly, so I do not think the BBC have just made him a fall guy.

I’ve just watched it. I don’t get the sex toy thing