Married TV presenter Grant Denyer has admitted he has 'embarrassed' his household after he was pictured together with his hand on his dance companion's thigh in between rehearsals for the brand new season of Dancing with the Stars: All Stars.
The images, which had been revealed in New Thought this week alongside the headline 'Grant Denyer Caught Out', confirmed Denyer getting near 22-year-old Lily Cornish exterior a dance studio in Sydney.
The 44-year-old clarified on Thursday the photographs had been harmless and actually confirmed him consoling his good friend after she had acquired some unhappy private information.
He instructed 2Day FM's The Morning Crew with Hughesy, Ed & Erin the photographs had been taken by a paparazzo simply moments after he and Cornish had completed chatting with his spouse Chezzi over FaceTime.
'It is such a horrible, made-up story that is embarrassing for everybody. We might simply been on the telephone to Chezzi, we had been FaceTiming... It had been a little bit of a tricky day and Lil had a bit happening in her private life,' he stated.
'It is lower than me to reveal what it [the personal issue] is however I used to be simply giving her a little bit of a pep discuss and fatherly recommendation,' he added.
'I simply gave her a faucet on the leg and he or she kind of leaned in for a little bit of a hug after a chat and that is the picture on the [New Idea] entrance web page.'
Cornish additionally addressed the New Thought story on Thursday, sharing a publish to Instagram thanking her followers for being so understanding.
'Thanks everybody for the sort phrases and messages. I actually recognize the quantity of affection that has come out of this yucky / disrespectful scenario. Killing it with kindness,' she wrote.
Denyer and his spouse had categorically denied the report suggesting he was having an affair with a girl half his age in a sequence of social media posts on Wednesday.
Chezzi posted screenshots of the article to Instagram and blasted the publication for fabricating such a 'gross and imply' story.
'What the precise hell is that this front-page crap, New Thought,' she wrote, including that the photographs had been fully taken out of context.
'Lilz [Cornish] is like our adopted daughter. We grew extraordinarily shut throughout her month lengthy stick with us right here in Bathurst. We completely adore her!
'Poor Lilz would not deserve this defamation of character... New Thought, try to be ashamed.'
Chezzi went on to say the photographer who took the images had apologised to her for the photographs being 'taken out of context'.
She additionally identified that Cornish's long-term boyfriend Jock White had been pictured visiting her throughout rehearsals for DWTS.
Denyer later issued his personal blistering assertion, calling the article a 'brutal' assault on a '22-year-old child' and a 'dad of three ladies'.
'My spouse and I are used to fabricated tales from these sort of journal, we have had a lifetime of it however for Lily, she's a 22 yo child!!' he wrote on Instagram.
'This sort of remedy is brutally unfair and disgusting.
'I am a Dad of three ladies. And if any good friend is having a foul day or a tricky time of their life, I will be there for them. Finish of story.'
Whereas the journal continues to be on newsstands, the web model has been taken down.