JOHN Barrowman says he has no regrets over the allegations of misconduct that led to him being blacklisted by the showbiz world.
The Scots actor and presenter, 58, was sacked from ITV’s Dancing On Ice in 2021 when historical sexual misconduct claims surfaced.
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He was accused of flashing at the cast on Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood where he appeared as Captain Jack Harkness between 2005 and 2011.
But speaking to STV’s Scotland Tonight, he fired back at critics for trying to cancel him.
Barrowman, from Glasgow, said: “I don’t regret anything.
“It’s not so much regret; it was something that was stupid and silly and it was done.
“I don’t look back because at the time, everybody was laughing. Everybody on set was having a laugh.”
In a chat with Rona Douglas which airs tonight, he detailed the incidents that caused all of the controversy and denied taking advantage of his position of power.
He said: “On Doctor Who, I was not the star. David (Tennant) was the star; I was one of the companions.
“But everybody was doing outrageous, silly things. It’s just that they weren’t dragged into this situation by a piece of lazy journalism.
“I was not walking around flashing people randomly and doing things like that.”
He added: “If I were doing a nude scene they’d say, ‘do you want to go back to the trailer?’
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“I’d say, ‘no just leave me here’ – it was meant to be a closed set – and I’d say, ‘leave me here and let’s save time, I’ll just stand here and it’ll save time that I don’t have to go back, have to change, then you have to bring me back and we have to start all over again’.
“So I would stand there, if I was in a nude scene, completely naked, and if somebody walked on set, which they weren’t supposed to or they were, I might just do something like that (jiggles) and it was nothing outrageous.
“I didn’t see it as outrageous. It was a different time.”
Scotland Tonight: A Conversation with John Barrowman airs on Thursday March 13 at 8:30pm on STV and STV Player.
