BBC Strictly Come Dancing star devastated by 'hate group' dedicated to him with 'thousands of members'

A BBC Strictly Come Dancing star has been left devastated by a "hate group" on Facebook dedicated to him - with THOUSANDS of members. BBC Strictly Come Dancing star Wynne Evans has discussed living in the eye of the storm ahead of the 2024 series.

Wynne was voted ‘C-bomb of year’ over the infamous GoCompare ad which he starred in. Wynne is a trained opera singer and has performed with some of the best stars, including Katherine Jenkins and is now set to compete on the upcoming series of Strictly Come Dancing.

He said: "When the ad came out - I can only say this with swearing, it was f***ing horrific. People hated it. People hated me. I was voted the C-Bomb of the year for three years in a row. Heat Magazine asked me to do an interview and I said, only if you stop making me c**t of the week. That is the only reason I will do an interview with you."

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He said: "It was incredibly memorable and it was on all the time. I didn't realise the media spend was gonna be so big. [There was an] enormous media spend on that." He said: "I was astonished that there would even be a hate site. I looked at it and I thought f***, that's a lot of people. I thought I needed to get a gauge of how hated I am.

"I would look up someone that I hate and see how many people are a member of their [hate] site. So I looked up Nick Griffin, who used to be the leader of the British National Party. Not a nice man at all, and 75,000 people on Facebook agreed with me.

"'I hate Wynne Evans That Go.Compare Man' had 2.75million followers. It was about three weeks after the ad came out. It was horrific. I took it really badly." He explains: "It was the first major ad in the age of social network. People could interact with you immediately. And they'd say 'I hope your mother dies of cancer.'"

"It took me about a year or maybe 18 months. When someone calls you a t**t once - when they've done it like 500 times it's water off a duck's back."