India, March 25 -- Joe Gatto, former star of Impractical Jokers, has issued a public response after a woman posted a sexual assault allegation against him on TikTok. The comedian, who was part of the show from 2011 to 2021, has denied the accusations and revealed that he will be stepping away from the public eye.

In the video shared on Thursday, the woman, who had previously kept quiet about her experience, alleges that Gatto sexually assaulted her in 2023, when she was 19 years old. According to her, the incident occurred in September of that year at a hotel in Milwaukee, where she had gone after meeting Gatto at one of his stand-up performances. "I got sexually assaulted by Joe Gatto, the Impractical Joker," she said in a video, adding...