In November 2021, the actor, who played flirtatious hero Captain Jack Harkness in Doctor Who and Torchwood, admitted he sometimes went too far with his behaviour on set, but he denied that it was sexual harassment.
He told Lorraine Kelly, 61, on her morning TV show: “I think that if it was now, it would be crossing the line. It was being done in the confines of the set and we were like a family working together.
“I haven’t hidden anything. They’ve been exaggerated and they’ve tried to turn them into sexual harassment, which it absolutely is not.
“All the people making a fuss about it weren’t there. They don’t know the context of things that were done. I would never do it now but we’re not allowing people to learn to adapt and to change.”
Dancing On Ice begins this Sunday at 6:30pm on ITV.