A POP star filmed dancing intimately with Finland’s party-loving prime minister says they are not having an affair.
Olavi Uusivirta, 38, insists that he and prime minister Sanna Marin, 36, are just “friends” and that “nothing inappropriate” happened.
Footage released on Friday showed the pair dancing close at 4am in a Helsinki nightclub.
It featured Ms Marin, who is married with a four-year-old daughter, draping her arms around the singer.
At one point, he appeared to kiss her.
But he says: “Hand on heart I can just say it like it is: we are friends and nothing inappropriate has happened.”
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She has taken a drug test over other video clips.
Marin said: "I'm disappointed that it has become public. I spent the evening with friends. Partied, pretty wild, yes. Danced and sang.
"I have not used drugs myself, or anything other than alcohol.
"I've danced, sung and partied and done perfectly legal things."