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FORMER Strictly Come Dancing star Wynne Evans appears to have taken aim at Katya Jones in a now-deleted Instagram post.
The Go Compare advert singer, 53, launched into a bitter rant on his social media last night, before removing the upload this morning.
He was partnered with pro dancer Katya during last year’s Strictly before he was axed for saying a sex slur backstage.
Fans have noticed that the Russian choreographer, 36, hasn’t been engaging with Wynne’s posts recently – even when he tags her.
Posing for a disgruntled-looking selfie at around midnight last night, Wynne appeared to take aim at his ‘connections’ on the BBC dancefloor.
“Here’s what I learnt from Strictly,” he captioned the post. “If you think you’ve built a real connection, you haven’t.
“You’ve paid for their time – and once the cameras stop, so does the care.
“But here, it’s real. The people who listen, message, and laugh with me – you – are genuine. This isn’t showbiz, it’s community.”
He concluded the caption saying: “And I’ll always choose that.”
Wynne added the hashtags “no pretence” and “real connection”, leaving the post up till this morning when it was suddenly deleted.
Before it was pulled, fans had already raised concerns and asked him if he was taking a less-than-subtle swipe at Katya.
One asked: “Does your dance partner never get in touch anymore? If not that is so so sad.”
While someone else said: “The way you were treated was absolutely disgusting. Your dance partner should have shouted from the rooftops in support of you.
“You deserve better.”
A third commented: “Don’t need your showbiz pals . Genuine people are normal Joe bloggs.. and we will say it how it is..x”
The Sun has contacted Wynne’s representatives for a comment.
It comes after he recently opened up about his sensational axe from showbusiness for using the term “spit roast” as a nickname for Jamie Borthwick.
Appearing on Nick Ferrari’s LBC show last month, Wynne said: “I said the word so I should have accountability for that, and I wasn’t ready for that level of scrutiny, and I shouldn’t have done it. And that’s it.
“I wouldn’t blame anybody other than myself.
“I totally take that as my responsibility and something that I shouldn’t have done, and I will regret that for the rest of my life.
“At 53 you know, to lose all your singing work, to lose all your television work, to lose your radio show, it’s not an easy thing to have happen to you, but it was my fault.”
Wynne only found out he’d been fired after reading it in The Sun – and days later discovered his BBC pass was deactivated without warning.
A JUDGE overturned the conviction of a man who burned the Koran saying free of expression must allow the right to “offend, shock or disturb”.
The decision came after Hamit Coskun was found guilty earlier this year of a religiously aggravated public order offence after shouting “f*** Islam” while holding a copy of the flaming text.
The incident happened outside Turkey’s consulate in London back in February.
Free speech campaigners aided the 51-year-old to successfully appeal against the conviction furious over an attempt to bring back blasphemy laws by the back door.
Mr Justice Bennathan said: “There is no offence of blasphemy in our law.
“Burning a Koran may be an act that many Muslims find desperately upsetting and offensive.
“The criminal law, however, is not a mechanism that seeks to avoid people being upset, even grievously upset.
“The right to freedom of expression, if it is a right worth having, must include the right to express views that offend, shock or disturb.”
The judge added that Coskun had acted alone and hadn’t directed his “political speech or conduct” at any person.
In his ruling at Southwark Crown Court, he added: “We live in a liberal democracy.
“One of the precious rights that affords us is to express our own views and read, hear and consider ideas without the state intervening to stop us doing so.
“The price we pay for that is having to allow others to exercise the same rights, even if that upsets, offends or shocks us.”
Campaigners and shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick, who himself attended court on Thursday, said the conviction was akin to blasphemy being brought in “by the back door”.
Jenrick said he did not agree with what Mr Coskun had done, but added: “I don’t believe it’s a crime”.
Blasphemy laws were abolished in in England and Wales back in 2008 and in Scotland in 2021.
Following the ruling, Mr Coskun said he had originally come to England “to be able to speak freely about the dangers of radical Islam”.
He said he was now “reassured that – despite many troubling developments – I will now be free to educate the British public about my beliefs”.
The Free Speech Union said the ruling sends a message that “anti-religious protests, however offensive to true believers, must be tolerated”.
Lord Toby Young of Acton, director of the FSU, said “anti-religious protests, however offensive to true believers, must be tolerated”.
The National Secular Society described Mr Coskun’s protest as a “lawful act of political dissent”.
