Wynne Evans became choked up as he spoke on This Morning about his Strictly Come Dancing scandal, just a day after announcing he is engaged.

The Welsh opera singer, 53, was sensationally dumped from the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour earlier this year over comments he made involving host Janette Manrara.

The ‘unacceptable’ joke referenced having a threesome with the dancer, 41.

Soon after he apologised, saying he was ‘deeply sorry for the pain my inappropriate action caused’ and would take a break from the public eye for ‘self-reflection’ and to ‘prioritise my wellbeing’.

At the time it was reported that he’d been dumped by his girlfriend Liz Brookes, 50, but it was then quickly clarified she was helping to ‘rally around him’.

Evans appeared on This Morning just a day after announcing they are now set to tie the knot, and spoke about how the negative attention from the scandal had a profound impact on his mental health.

Evans sat down with Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley in the ITV studio and said the scandal took him ‘to the darkest spot of his life’ when the attention ‘wouldn’t stop’.

‘I was at my lowest ebb, I wanted to end my life. I would have if I hadn’t been surrounded by people,’ he said.

At one point, Evans said that he remembered expressing suicidal thoughts to his grilfriend.

‘I remember saying to my girlfriend, “I have to kill myself. I have to because this is what they want”,’ he said, becoming choked up with emotion,’he shared.

‘You’re full of these thoughts the entire time and it takes over your life.’

Evans went on to say that he was monitored by a crisis team for a month and that his friends, family and girlfriend set up a schedule to ensure that he wasn’t alone at any point in the day.

His appearance in the ITV studio comes just a day after he posted a photo of him down on one knee while in holiday in Morocco, captioning the Instagram post: ‘Big news… I got engaged! 💍

‘This weekend in Morocco, somewhere between the couscous, the camels, and me limping around the souks like a man with no spatial awareness, I proposed to Liz — and she said yes! (No take-backs, I’ve checked.)

‘She’s clever, she’s kind, she’s got excellent taste in men. Absolutely no idea how I pulled that off, but here we are! Feeling very lucky, very happy, and just a tiny bit smug.’

In the post, Wynne also shared a photo of their hands holding glasses of champagne, with Liz’s engagement ring front and centre.

Liz, who runs her own successful events company in Cardiff, met Wynne at one of her events.

Following the news a source told The Sun: ‘It has been a tumultuous six months for Wynne, but Liz has been his absolute rock throughout.

‘Finally, some wonderful news for Wynne and his inner circle to celibate and everyone is chuffed for them both.

‘He secretly bought an engagement ring and squirrelled it away for their holiday and then popped the question over champagne.’

They added: ‘Liz has been incredible over the past few months, supporting him through thick and thin, and had his back throughout, but obviously Wynne is telling everyone she’s a lucky girl!’

Wynne and Liz are believed to have started dating last year after his divorce from his wife of 17 years, violinist Tanwen Evans.

The former couple share two children, daughter Ismay and son Taliesin.

Wynne has previously spoken about the impact of his divorce, telling BBC Radio Wales: ‘It was almost like grief, but you can’t grieve for somebody that’s still there. So, it really affected my mental health, my confidence and my ego – it totally changed me as a person.’

‘It made me very aware of being alone. And, even though I was only 46, I had this irrational fear of dying on my own.’

Wynne’s engagement comes a few months after he was axed by the BBC, who didn’t renew his one-year rolling BBC Radio contract following a four-month investigation.

He confirmed in an Instagram statement: ‘It breaks my heart to say the BBC has decided not to renew my contract, so I won’t be returning to my radio show. I’m gutted. That show wasn’t just work — it was home. It was us. We laughed, we cried, we sang like nobody was listening. And somehow, through the airwaves, we became a family.’

A spokesperson for the BBC told Metro: ‘Wynne Evans is not under contract with the BBC. He is not returning to the mid-morning show on BBC Radio Wales and there are currently no plans to work with him.’

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