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BARRYMORE WANTS A REMATCH WITH BOXER CHARLIE GROPED SILENT ASSASSIN

- ■ by JERRY LAWTON jerry.lawton@dailystar.co.uk

FORMER Corrie star Charlie Condou flattened a fan who grabbed his bum in the street.

But the actor then had to explain himself to show chiefs.

The incident, which happened in Manchester’s gay village, was captured on a mobile

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■ phone. Charlie, 47, who played midwife Marcus Dent until 2014, said: “Someone grabbed my arse on Canal Street and said, ‘let’s have a go on that.’ “I knocked him to the floor.” Charlie added: “Had to explain myself to the producer.”

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MICHAEL Barrymore wants to mix it in the ring with Britain’s first licensed female boxer – 23 years after she last battered him on telly.

He has challenged Jane Couch to a “rematch” after their dust-up on his talk show in 1997, which left him bleeding.

The five-time world boxing champion donned the gloves for a supposedly friendly spar with the host in an episode of Barrymore on ITV.

She threw a few punches and he fell on the sofa. When the host retaliated without warning, Couch “clobbered him” and drew blood.

After the spar star, 51, put the footage on Twitter, Barrymore, 67, challenged her to a rematch.

He said: “My ribs hurt for ages after. Would I do it again? Yeah in a heart beat.

“Keep the gloves on Jane and keep well. Rematch?’’

Couch replied: “F***ing right let’s go. We can make the country laugh again.’’

The sportswoma­n was inducted into the Internatio­nal Women’s Boxing

EMMERDALE boss Jane Hudson keeps her future plots under wraps from the cast – as they cannot be trusted.

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But her original scrap with Barrymore led to her taking a pasting – from one of his fans.

Couch said: “A few days later this woman came up and smacked me on the head with her handbag for hitting him.

“And then she booted me in the back of the leg. She was about 60.” who plays Cain Dingle, said: “Jane is quite – and quite rightfully – secretive about where stories are going.

“She knows that if she tells one member of the cast, it’s soon Chinese whispers around the rest.”

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PACKING A PUNCH: Jane Couch gives the TV host a pasting in 1997
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