CBB’s Fern Britton breaks silence on ‘feud’ with Nikita Kuzmin and says ‘I caught him on a raw side’

Now she has insisted the two of them aren't caught up in a feud and it was simply a misunderstanding.

Speaking to Christine Lampard on Lorraine today, Fern said: "There was no feud, we had a misunderstanding - I was trying to explain to him, something had happened a few days before… 

“He’s a young, experienced man and he’s had a lot of stuff in his life having been born in Ukraine. it was just such a silly thing, maybe I just caught him on a raw side or I said something clumsily."

But Fern added that, by the final night, they were friends again - with Nikita asking her for help with his exit outfit.

"On the last night he said. ‘Can you show me how to iron this bow on my suit?’ and then he said, ‘Would you tie your bow for me?’ So we were fine, there was no problem."

During the fall-out on the show, Fern told Nikita: “You and I get on alright when we’re playing games. Can I tell you? How old are you now?”

“When you’re 66, you’ll have exactly the same brain, which is why you have to understand that I’ve still got a 26-year-old brain.”

Nikita then commented that he was feeling utterly confused by her reflective comments.

Fern then clarified herself, explaining to the dancer what she meant by her initial comment.

She said: “You shouldn’t be confused. You never change your brain."

“Everything is hilarious - all bum jokes, all c**k jokes. Everything is still as it is when you’re 66.”

Still struggling to understand, Nikita asked the best-selling author whether they were “having a beef?”

Fern replied: “I’m just saying never look at an old person and think they’re old. We’re still in our heads 26.

“When you said to me the other day, you were very sweet. ‘I like your stripy top. Stripes are in fashion, Fern.’ Bless you, you were passing me a compliment but also saying ‘actually they’re in fashion’ as if it was a surprise to me. It wasn’t a surprise.”