Mark Holden claims his disturbing performance as Bobo The Clown has been scrubbed from the internet 

Former Australian Idol judge Mark Holden famously dressed up as a character he called Bobo The Clown while appearing on Dancing With The Stars in 2014. 

Described as ‘creepy’ and ‘menacing’ the performance, alongside dance partner Jessica Prince, has been wiped from YouTube, Mark, 66, claimed on Monday.   

‘It’s been taken off, you just can’t find Bobo dancing,’ he told Adelaide Now of his bizarre dance on the Channel Seven show.  

‘It had had a million hits, people from America were looking for Bindi Irwin on Dancing With the Stars and tripping over Bobo. 

‘It didn’t look good for the Dancing With the Stars brand. If I’d known they were going to do that I would have captured some of the footage myself,’ he added. 

Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Channel Seven for comment.  

In 2015, Mark told Daily Mail Australia that he had no regrets about the abysmal performance that scored four out of 40, even though he says it ruined his television career.  

‘The circus act was the exclamation point to the end of my careers. It properly finished me off, let’s face it,’ he said. 

Mark went on: ‘I pushed it with the clown act,  but had I known then that would have been my last chance on the screen I’d have pushed it further and been more fearless.

‘I received so much negative reaction at the time, it was overwhelming and it made me pull back.’

He concluded: ‘Still, I have no regrets, I loved it, even though it spelled the end for me’. 

Mark echoed similar statements to Adelaide Now on Monday, saying he wished he’d gone method with the character, like comedian Sacha Baron Cohen does with his Borat character. 

The former TV personality has turned his hand to working on documentaries – including one on Idol rapper Joel Turner – and is writing a fiction novel.