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Terence Lewis revisits viral video of him allegedly touching Nora Fatehi inappropriately: ‘Why would I do something like this with four cameras around?’

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Choreographer Terence Lewis has addressed the video that confirmed him touching Nora Fatehi inappropriately on TV. The incident occurred on the fact present India’s Best Dancer a few years in the past. The present featured Terence as a choose, and the episode in query noticed Nora seem as a visitor. In the clip that went viral, individuals accused Terence of touching Nora inappropriately, whereas others assumed that there was one thing brewing between the 2 of them. 

Speaking about it, Terence clarified on Maniesh Paul’s podcast, “It was a simple situation. Shatrughan Sinha and his wife had come. Geeta Kapoor felt that we had to do full namaskar to greet them. That week, Malaika Arora had COVID, and Nora stepped into her shoes. I said okay, fine. We did namaskar as respect, but suddenly, Geeta felt that it was not enough and wanted us to do more. So we followed her directions. I don’t even remember if my hand touched her (Nora), I don’t know even if it is really touching.”

He added, “On a fair note, two weeks before, Nora had come on the show and asked me to dance with her… Why would I want to do something like this, when there are four cameras around? This is too cheap, you can’t do this. I got abused, in my DMs…” Terence continued that meme-rs had zoomed into motion, and stated that it regarded ‘too real’. He referred to as Nora straight afterwards and realised that it was getting out of hand, and each of them had been receiving calls. “I’ve already danced with her in close proximity, and when you’re in the middle of it, you are not thinking in that zone. We are so focused, you cannot be in two worlds, and you need a lot of guts to do something like this…”

Back in 2020, Terence had defended himself saying that the video was clearly morphed. “The use of effects was so clearly visible, any intelligent person would see through it. In today’s times, there are memes made on every celebrity. It was a naughty memer at work, and I did not care,” he had stated. This yr, he addressed rumours of his relationship with Nora Fatehi in an interview with Siddharth Kannan, and stated, “We are very good friends.”