Choreographer Terence Lewis landed in a soup after a video of him touching Nora Fatehi’s derriere on TV went viral on social media. The shocking incident occurred on the reality show - India’s Best Dancer - the show featured Terence as a judge, and the episode in question saw Nora appear as a guest.
In the viral clip, people accused Terence of touching Nora inappropriately while some assumed that something was brewing between the two of them. ALSO READ | Terence Lewis Reacts To Infamous Viral Video Where He Was Wrongly Accused Of 'Touching Nora Fatehi’s Butt’; ‘This Would Only Tickle A 17-Year-Old’
This creep is Terence Lewis
— °deacon (@liizel0) September 27, 2020
He is doing this on tage to a known face...
No, It's not a slip of hand.!
Where are those Bollywood Feminists who mocked Sunil Gavaskar.?
Can Anushka Sharma say something about this.?#SushantEarthDay https://t.co/kNsNYBM5Tl#BollywoodDrugShame
#NoraFatehi Ass slapped by #TerranceLewis
— Nandini Idnani 🇮🇳🚩 (@nandiniidnani69) September 26, 2020
What a nonsense never thought expected from him#SonyTv #BollywoodCleanup pic.twitter.com/iyECt1mI74
Now, after much speculation and controversies, Terence has finally opened up about the video and implied that he doesn’t even remember if his hand touched Nora and if it was even really touching her.
“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,” Terence clarified on Maniesh Paul’s podcast.
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 also shared that meme-rs had jumped into action and maintained that it looked ‘too real’. He called Nora soon after the videos and memes went viral, and he realized it all was going out of hand and they both were receiving calls.
The choreographer elaborated, “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…”
Terence defended himself in 2020 and said that the video was clearly morphed. He pointed out that the use of effects was clearly visible and any intelligent person would see through it. He also mentioned that he did not care, as it was a naughty meme-er’s work. ALSO READ | India’s Best Dancer: Terence Lewis Slammed For Touching ‘Nora Fatehi's Butt'; Case Of A Bad Camera Angle?
Earlier this year, he also addressed the rumours of his relationship with Nora Fatehi in an interview with Siddharth Kannan. He said, “We are very good friends.”
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