Danny Dyer says he didn't mean to manhandle Mary Berry at the TV Choice Awards.
The 'EastEnders' star was accused of accosting the 'Great British Bake Off' judge while drunk at the event last month, but he insists it was blown out of proportion and he "loves" Mary.
Speaking at the Inside Soap Awards at DSTRKT in London on Wednesday night (01.10.14), the 37-year-old told star BANG Showbiz: "People said I accosted her and I was really upset as I love Mary Berry, and everything about her."
Danny - who picked up the Inside Soap gong for Best Actor for his portrayal of Mick Carter - insisted he has smoothed things over with the 79-year-old culinary queen.
He explained: "Me and Mary are sweet, Mary ain't got a problem with me. I think she's lovely and I love her. I respect her and I just wanted to give her a cuddle, that's it."
Although he wouldn't suggest anyone else reaches the same stage of inebriation at such an event, Danny says it was a pleasant surprise the next day when he realised that he had won the award for Best Soap Actor at the TV Choice Awards.
He quipped: "I wouldn't advise anyone to accept an award off your head. It was a nice feeling when I woke up the next morning and there was an award by my bed and I thought, 'I done it!' "

Inside Soap Awards Sexiest Male winner Danny Mac says his beauty secret is just a daily shower.
The 26-year-old actor picked up the highly fought-over gong at the ceremony held at DSTRKT in London on Wednesday night (01.10.14), but despite being so desirable he insists he doesn't spend too much time on his appearance.
Talking to BANG Showbiz, Danny said: "My beauty regime is ... a shower, at least once a day. That's about it really! The girls in make-up do the rest of it."
Although he doesn't pamper himself, the hunk does push himself hard in the gym because his character Dodger Savage has to strip off in the Channel 4 soap a lot.
He revealed: "I have to work out. I don't know [when the producers will ask me to take my top off], It's like, I'm thinking of buying a coffee and Dodger is taking his top off! So I have to go to the gym to give myself half a chance."
Danny finds it hilarious that the show's producers ask him to get his kit off so much during situations which don't necessitate nudity.
When asked if he thinks Dodger takes his clothes off too much, Danny said: "Yes! Too much. I'd like to go and tell them [the producers], look, I'm just not doing it. Not to be a pain in the a**e, but because he doesn't need to be taking his top off there, buying a coffee! Do it later! At least have him sleeping with someone!"
The actor - who has been in 'Hollyoaks' since 2011 - has won the Sexiest Male title for three consecutive years and he is very proud of his victories.
He said: "I'm so proud. It's all a bit of a whirlwind but I'm over the moon! I didn't expect it and I'm so pleased the audience have voted for me and 'Hollyoaks' again and I can't thank them enough."

William Shatner is "open to the idea" of appearing in 'Star Trek 3'.
The 83-year-old actor found international fame playing the role of Captain James Kirk in the TV series of the sci-fi franchise in the 1960s, and has recently been linked to a role in director JJ Abrams's next 'Star Trek' movie.
Asked whether he would like to reprise the iconic role, Shatner told the Metro newspaper: "It depends how it would be written and how they'd do it. But I'm open to the idea."
Shatner is a fan of the two 'Star Trek' films JJ Abrmas has directed, saying he's "enjoyed them very much".
Quizzed on what it's like seeing Chris Pine, 34, playing the role of Captain Kirk, he explained: "It was like seeing your mortality.
"Here comes a young, handsome and talented guy playing what I was playing years ago. It makes you realise time is passing - if I needed reminding, which I don't."
Shatner is set to appear at a 'Star Trek' convention at London's ExCel Centre this weekend, and he says it's something he's really looking forward to.
He remarked: "I've discovered I feel renewed from having the contact with the fans.
"Standing in front of a lot of people and making them laugh and informing them and doing essentially an hour-long ad-lib show and getting the approbation at the end of it is terrific."
'Star Trek 3' is set to be released in 2016.

Cara Delevingne wants to work with Bafta award-winner Adam Deacon.
The 22-year-old model - who has been starring on the catwalk at Paris Fashion Week - and Deacon, 31, met last week at a 'Call of Duty' event held in London, and it seems the meeting has ignited Cara's desire to appear in one of the 'Adulthood' star's urban films.
A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "Cara wants to recreate herself and she's hoping to hook up with Adam for a film to help her do it. They met last week and got on really well and she said she would love to collaborate with him.
"Now he's got a part in mind for her. He's been working on a new film script over the last few months and thinks it will do even better than his directorial debut, 'Anuvahood'."
Delevingne was recently cast to appear in the upcoming John Green adaptation 'Paper Towns'.
The model is to play Margo in the new film, the second best-selling Green novel to be turned into a movie following on from 'The Fault in Our Stars'.
The author took to Twitter to confirm the casting news, saying: "Cara Delevigne's audition blew everyone away (including me!) and she understands Margo profoundly. I am so excited!"

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have upset locals on the Maltese island of Gozo, where they have been filming their new movie 'By The Sea'.
The couple's new film - the first they have shot together since 'Mr and Mrs Smith' in 2004 - has led to the closure of a particular part of the island where the diving business is especially prosperous.
Donna Hayler-Montague, who runs Bubbles Diving Centre on the island, told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "Brad and Angelina started filming in August and originally the Prime Minister said the bays would be closed for a few days. Now they plan to be here until November.
"Our high season is September and October so they've taken over the bays in that season.
"It is quite dramatic for the diving community. We are asking for a compromise. We have offered not to take phones or cameras along."
'By The Sea' is being directed by Angelina, 39, who married Brad, 50, on August 23, 2014 in a private ceremony in Chateau Miraval, France.
The couple have six children, three of whom are adopted -Maddox, Pax and Zahara - and three who are their biological children - Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne.

Lawyers acting for Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna, Cara Delevingne and other female stars whose private images were hacked have threatened to sue Google for $100 million.
A number of female celebrities - including Kim Kardashian West, Kate Upton, Amber Heard and Selena Gomez - have had their iCloud accounts targetted and had intimate photos shared on websites Reddit and 4Chan but legal representatives for over a dozen of the women has slammed the online giant for allegedly for allegedly failing to remove the images and "making millions from the victimisation of women."
Lawyer Marty Singer has written a sternly-worded letter to Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as Eric Schmidt and Google lawyers accusing them of "blatantly unethical behaviour".
According to the New York Post's Page Six column, the document goes on to claim Google has failed "to act expeditiously, and responsibly to remove the images, but in knowingly accommodating, facilitating, and perpetuating the unlawful conduct."
It added: "Google is making millions and profiting from the victimisation of women."
The lawyer pointed out his firm sent a notice to remove the images four weeks ago, and several more since, but many of the photos are still on BlogSpot and YouTube, which are both owned by Google.
He added: "Google knows the images are hacked stolen property, private and confidential photos and videos unlawfully obtained and posted by pervert predators who are violating the victims' privacy rights ... Yet Google has taken little or no action to stop these outrageous violations.
"Because the victims are celebrities with valuable publicity rights you do nothing -- nothing but collect millions of dollars in advertising revenue ... as you seek to capitalise on this scandal rather than quash it."

Lena Dunham stopped drinking and going to parties after she was raped.
The 'Girls' creator was sexually attacked while studying at Oberlin college in Ohio and admits the aftermath saw her "remove herself from the social world" in a bid to stay safe.
She said: "he emotional trauma she suffered from the incident deeply affected her emotionally and dramatically altered her remaining college years. "I didn't really go to anymore parties. I basically didn't have a drink for the rest of college... I really removed myself from that world.
"I don't know if I would've told you at the time, 'Oh, I'm doing this to keep myself safe,' but obviously in hindsight... I basically removed myself from the social world as I'd known it."
The 28-year-old star - who is in a relationship with Fun. musician Jack Antonoff - struggled to speak openly about what had happened to her, using the "lens of humour" to play down her ordeal.
She told NPR's Terry Gross: "It was a painful experience physically and emotionally, and one I spent a long time trying to reconcile.
"At the time that it happened, it wasn't something that I was able to be honest about. I was able to share pieces, but I sort of used the lens of humour, which has always been my default mode, to try to talk around it."
And Lena admits sharing her story with her best friend, who bluntly told her she had been raped, helped "lift" her and get over the shocking attack.
She said: "When I shared it with my best friend and she used the term 'you were raped' at the time, I sort of laughed at her and thought like, you know, what an ambulance-chasing drama queen.
"[I] later felt this incredible gratitude for her for giving me that, giving me that gift of that kind of certainty that she had. I think that a lot of times when I felt at my lowest about it, those words in some way actually lifted me up because I felt that somebody was justifying the pain of my experience."

Kelly Brook has snubbed her ex-fiancé David McIntosh in her autobiography.
The glamorous model has omitted any mention of her former beau from her new book, 'Close Up', despite rumours that her publishers are pressuring her to write an extra chapter all about their messy break up last month.
According to The Sun newspaper, a source said: "Publishers would love her to write a few more chapters about how her engagement to David ended. But Kelly didn't even mention David in the book while they were together and after the way it ended she doesn't want to have that in black and white.
"It's a pretty big insult if he doesn't make the cut. It's almost like she's erasing him from her life and it will be the final sign that he is irrelevant to her now."
Kelly shocked her fans when she announced their split on September 26, via the social networking site Twitter. At the time she wrote: "It's a sad Day but I wanted to share with you that David and I are no longer engaged. I love and respect him and wish him all the best. (sic)"
Their break up came after David was accused of cheating on the lingerie designer with his friend, Sarah Harper. The former 'Gladiators' star has since denied these claims.
Two days after his ex-girlfriend announced their separation, he tweeted: "There are two sides to every story. You are free to believe what you wish...it doesn't alter the facts. (sic)"

Jessie J has blamed social media for killing romance.
The 'Bang Bang' hitmaker - who largely keeps her private life out of the spotlight - believes that if websites like Facebook and Twitter were shut down, more couples would get married.
She told Britain's Cosmopolitan magazine: "I think with Instagram and Twitter, romance has lost its way. It's all, 'Oh, I've got this girl but I could have another one and I can contact her directly right this minute.'
"If we lost technology for a year more people would get married."
Meanwhile, the 26-year-old singer has revealed that if her partner loved joining in with her celebrity lifestyle, she'd give him the boot.
She previously said: "Nobody that I'm with wants to be famous or be on a red carpet and if they do, then I don't want to be with them! I want you to have your own life and not be with me because of that."
Jessie has also admitted that she works hard to keep her private life from the public and is desperate for her friends to treat her as if she's not famous.
She said: "I think I've just come to terms with the way my life has changed. There are people that are always going to think that I've changed but I know I haven't.
"I've got the same people around me, the same best mates, and I'm not one of those people that hop to a different best friend every five minutes."

Robert Pattinson enjoyed a boozy night with this year's 'X Factor' contestants in Hollywood.
The 'Twilight' star - whose sister Lizzy is a hopeful in the over 25s category - treated the singers to drinks at the Rainbow Lounge on the Sunset Strip following a grueling day of auditions at their mentor Simon Cowell's LA home.
According to The Sun newspaper, Robert, 28, spent a few hundred dollars on beverages for the group - made up of Lizzy, Fleur East, Ben Haenow, Jay James, Helen Fulthorpe and Stevi Ritchie - and refused to let them foot the bill all night.
The hunky actor is also said to have taken a shine to pretty contestant Fleur and was often spotted chatting to her throughout the evening.
A source said: "Lizzy was really hoping she would get to meet up with her brother when she was out in LA, but he has such a hectic schedule.
"After their auditions on Saturday, he got in touch and wanted to take them all out. He bought them Jägerbombs and wouldn't let them put their hands in their pocket all night.
"He spent a lot of time chatting to Fleur. Obviously he was really keen to catch up with Lizzy as well.
"It was one of the highlights of their trip."

Frankie Bridge has to take motion-sickness tablets before her 'Strictly Come Dancing performances.
The Saturdays singer is feeling stiff and sore, as well as struggling with nausea when professional partner Kevin Clifton is spinning her around, but gruelling rehearsals have left her feeling fitter than ever.
Talking to OK! magazine, she said: "When I'm spinning, I get really bad motion sickness so I'll have to take travel sickness tablets.
"Every part of my body aches but my body feels toned and I feel fitter than ever. With touring on top, this is the most exercise I've ever done so I'm eating what I want."
The brunette beauty is also excited about changing her look on the show every week thanks to a selection of wigs.
She said: "I tried to be different and have long hair last year but it didn't really suit me.
"Everyone changes their hair each week on 'Strictly' but I can't, so the hair and make-up guys were like, 'Oh we have wigs.' I'm never going to get to wear wigs any other time so I might as well give them a go."

Rose Leslie was "oblivious" to the 'Game of Thrones' fandom before she started filming scenes for the popular TV show.
The 27-year-old actress has admitted that she had no idea how popular the HBO adaptation of the George R. R. Martin novels was until she attended a Comic Con event to promote GoT.
Talking in the latest issue of InStyle magazine, Rose shared: "I was so naive at first. I was oblivious to how huge the fan base was, so I didn't feel too much pressure. I was shooting my first season in Iceland with a tight crew, so I was cocooned in my bubble on this beautiful landscape with no one else to be seen. And then it hit me at Comic Con, my first big event for the show."
Her on-screen character Ygritte, was killed off the show in July 2014 and Rose has revealed that filming scenes with her co-star Kit Harington (who played Jon Snow) was very "emotional".
She said: "It was hard but I knew from day one that she was going to die because I had read the books. HBO had scheduled that scene so it was my final one to film, which played on my romantic side. It was a very emotional day."