Martin Clunes rules out Men Behaving Badly return

Martin Clunes has ruled out a 'Men Behaving Badly' return.

The 60-year-old actor starred as Gary Strang, alongside Neil Morrissey’s Tony Smart in the ‘laddish’ nineties comedy and Martin believes audiences would not connect with the misogynistic characters today.

He told Saga magazine: "God, no. Not these days. I mean we talked about things like Kylie Minogue’s buttocks and compared them to a racehorse’s. How could we do that now?"

Martin's comments come after his co-star Neil previously said the show "isn't woke enough" to return.

The 59-year-old actor thinks his womanising character would have to become “completely woke” if a new series of the show was to ever materialise.

He said: “It’s all about the script. If Simon [Nye] writes something marvellous, we’d obviously have a look at it.

“I don’t know if we could make it again now, though. It’s not woke enough is it? Putting ladies’ underpants on my head ... things like that.

“I guess Leslie [Ash] was objectified a bit by my character. But that was the point of it – that we were really rubbish, and they were really cool and smart. We were a couple of misogynist idiots who couldn’t keep a job, let alone a girlfriend.

“I don’t know if it would work [now], but it would be fun trying. The way to do it would be to have the wokeness involved, in that Tony is so PC it’s unbelievable. They would just have to have lapses after several beers on the sofa.”

The show, which ran for six seasons, also featured Leslie Ash, 62, as Deborah Burton and Caroline Quentin, 61, as Dorothy Bishop, the pair's girlfriends.