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.”

“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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NCIS star Pauley Perrette has addressed her decision to retire from acting, explaining why fans will “never again” see her on screen.

Perrette, 55, who played the lovable and quirky forensic scientist Abby on the popular CBS police procedural since its 2003 premiere, left the series in 2018 and went into retirement.

Two years later, she briefly returned to front CBS’s short-lived 2020 sitcom Broke, which was canceled after just one season.

Soon after the comedy’s cancelation, Perrette tweeted: “I’m HAPPILY RETIRED! Finally! Woot! All I ever wanted.”

In a subsequent post, she clarified: “Actually I retired after NCIS but BROKE was important, beautiful. I did my last dance & am proud of it! Everyone that knows me knew I was retiring right after. I’m proud of my work. I love you guys! I AM FREE!!! (To be the tiny little simple human I am!).”

Speaking to Hello Magazine in a rare new interview, Perrette discussed why she has no plans of ever returning to the screen.

“I’m not ungrateful for the benefits that it gave to me,” she said of acting. “But I’m a different person now and I want to be here for it – the good and the bad and the painful. I want to be me all the time, and it takes a good amount of courage for me to say that to myself but it’s authentically how I feel.”

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Perrette began acting in the Nineties. She landed her first screen credit in a single 1994 episode of ABC’s long-running drama After School Specials. She later made appearances in the Oscar-nominated 2000 comedy Almost Famous and the classic TV drama Dawson’s Creek before landing the role of Abby on NCIS.

For 15 years, she endeared herself to viewers as the goth-dressing, witty forensic scientist, starring alongside Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Sean Murray and the late David McCallum.

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Following her departure, Perrette claimed on X that her exit was due in part to “multiple physical assaults” that occured on set.

NCIS Executive Producer Charles Floyd Johnson shed more light on the incident in an oral history published by The Hollywood Reporter last September.

“In Pauley Perrette’s case, there was an incident with the show with a dog. The dog was Harmon’s, and apparently the dog bit someone,” Johnson said. “Pauley was a huge, huge SPCA [Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals] animal person. And then the dog kept coming with Harmon, and she felt it wasn’t safe for the show. By the end of that year, she just felt like it wasn’t working for her anymore, and it was time to move on.”

Harmon, who led the series as special agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, remained on the show three years beyond Perrette before exiting in 2021. However, he is still an executive producer for the NCIS franchise.

NCIS will air its season 22 premiere on CBS on October 14.

HORROR fans were left screaming and puking last night at the UK premiere of Terrifier 3.

Some ticket holders were so disgusted they bolted from their seats within the first ten minutes.

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The brutal sequel, directed by Damien Leone, left some cinema goers traumatised and at least one vomited during the screening.

For people who can stomach the nightmarish third installment they’re in for a satisfying ride.

Rotten Tomatoes have the flick at 93% on their ‘tomatometer’.

“There were 11 total walkouts, nine during the opening scene, and that there was one fan confirmed to have puked,” according to LADbible.

Leone added in a statement to Bloody Disgusting: “Although I was in and out of the screening, I did manage to witness some crazy stuff.

“One woman got up and left in the middle of the shower massacre.

“Another woman left the screening and said she started having a panic attack during a scene involving kids where Art impersonates a mall Santa.”

After surviving Art the Clown’s Halloween massacre, Sienna and her brother are struggling to rebuild their shattered lives.

Leone previously promised Terrifier 3 would push the horror even further.

He said one scene was so disgusting when they filmed it that a cast member almost walked off set.

Leone wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “Can honestly say we just filmed one of the most insanely horrific scenes of the Terrifier franchise and you’ll never believe who couldn’t handle it on set… the BTS is hilarious.

“Can’t wait for you all to see!”

Lead actor David Howard Thornton was the one who almost puked.

He plays the terrifying Art the Clown, and confirmed the gruesome attacks were tough to play out.

In response to a fan on social media, Thornton wrote: “I will just say that this is the kill that almost made me vom. That’s a first.”

Damien went on to show give examples of what fans can expect.

He said: “The past couple of weeks on the set of Terrifier 3 have been some of the most intense and taxing of my career!

“But seeing genuine smiles around the monitor & hearing numerous cast & crew members say they’ve gotten chills multiple times makes it all worthwhile. It’s a good one!”

Sick bags were provided to viewers who watched the second instalment at early screenings in 2022, and the director was forced to hit back at cliams it was a marketing stunt.

He said at the time: “To everyone saying that reports of people fainting and puking during screenings of Terrifier 2 is a marketing ploy, I swear on the success of the film it is NOT.

“These reports are 100% legit. I wish we were smart enough to think of that! But then again we didn’t need to.”

One movie goer verified his comments by sharing their experiences of the film.

They wrote: “The guy behind me passed out cold and crashed into my chair, another guy left because he didn’t feel good I overheard him say.

“And walking out of the theatre door I heard a guy puking hard and loud in the bathroom.”

Terrifier 3 launches in cinemas in the UK on October 11th.