Calum Best: 'I respect women'

Calum Best has insisted that he does not have a disrespectful attitude towards women.

The reality TV star claimed that he has received unfair criticism in the press as a result of his womanising in recent years.

"I'm not the guy people think I am. I'm f***ing well-mannered," Best told Now magazine. "You ask any of my friends. I might be a naughty boy and a bit of a perv, but my mum raised me well.

"People assume that I'm a d*** and I'm disrespectful to women, but it's not true. Any girl you talk to will say I'm respectful. I just have this lothario image because I'm single and I like dating."

Calum is currently filming for a new MTV reality series The Best Is Yet To Come, which challenges him to stay celibate for 50 days.

He said: "If I can use this to show people I ain't that dude the past couple of years has made me out to be, then good."