DIY SOS host Nick Knowles has admitted he cannot assemble flat-pack furniture.
The 62-year-old Strictly star works with tradespeople to transform homes for deserving families on the BBC One show.
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But he revealed his family “laugh at him” when he tries DIY.
However, dad-of-four Nick still reckons he could build his own house.
In an interview with The Times T2 supplement yesterday, Nick said: “My family laugh when I try to assemble flat-packs.
“I get frustrated because, like most men, I don’t read the instructions.”
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“But I could build my own house — easily. One day I just might.”
Nick — who has been married twice and is now engaged to lingerie business owner Katie Dadzie, 34 — also revealed he has lost more than two stone since he began training for Strictly four weeks ago.
He said: “This is much tougher than rugby training.
“I can feel myself transforming from a very heavy bloke lumbering around the room to somebody who’s becoming lighter and more elegant on his feet.”
Meanwhile, Nick has been in hot water after he said women in the North East of England were “munters” in a sleazy chat with a young charity worker, it has been claimed.
The TV favourite allegedly made a string of lewd and offensive remarks to the woman and ogled her breasts while filming BBC show DIY SOS: The Big Build.
It left the 33-year-old support worker feeling embarrassed and mortified, she claimed.
The mum of one said she was interviewed by Knowles in 2018 for an episode of the show about a home renovation for a family with a young disabled child.
She claims he turned up late after boozing the night before — and later kipped in a van.
Knowles was said to have been hung over, looked worse for wear and stank of stale booze and cigarettes after partying at North Shields Fish Quay.
When the then 26-year-old dropped her microphone down her blouse, the star allegedly said: “It’s a shame that’s not a camera.”
The woman, who posed for a photo with the star, said he did not touch her or make a pass.
Knowles said he had encountered hundreds of people in the course of his work and cannot be expected to remember what he has said to everyone he has met.
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