Actor Manish Raisinghan has opened up about resurfaced rumours of his link-up with 'Sasural Simar Ka' co-star Avika Gor, with whom it was reported that he had a 'secret child'.
Talking about it in an interview with ETimes, Manish said "This is one of the most absurd things I have ever heard about my friendship with Avika. Why can't two individuals be good friends? Why do they have to be in a relationship? Also, it's a fact that I am 18 years older than her."
He continued, "Avika will always be a close friend. She is in a happy relationship now with Milind Chandwani and it has been more than a year since I got married in June 2020. Sangeita and I laughed about these rumours."
Earlier, Avika too had quashed the rumours of being in a relationship with Manish. She had told RJ Siddharth Kannan in an interview, "There were articles like humne bachcha chhupa ke rakha hai (we have a secret child). We are very close, even now. In my journey from the age of 13 till now, he has been the closest friend that I've ever had."
Avika also mentioned that the rumours did affect them at first, to a point that they didn't talk to each other for two weeks. She said, “If we read old news stories about us, we laugh."
The actor went on to say, "He's 18 years elder than me. Even now when people ask me if anything was happening between us, I'm like 'yaar, mere papa se thoda chhota hai woh (he's almost my father's age)."
For the unversed, Manish married his lady love Sangeita Chauhaan in June last year. They tied the knot in a gurudwara in Mumbai in the presence of their immediate family members in November 2020, Meanwhile, Avika too made her relationship with MTV Roadies contestant Milind Chandwani official.