No manager likes to have to ask one of his employees, “Were you dirty dancing in your underwear at a late-night office party?”

On top of that, it becomes more difficult to defend the employee when he claims he didn’t — and people come forward to say he did.

Matt Brown was forced to resign as police minister of New South Wales, Australia,  just three days after being sworn in.

People said he “dirty danced” in underwear while over a female colleague who was lying on a lounge. After initially telling State Premier Nathan Rees that the incident hadn’t taken place, Brown now admits dancing in just his undershorts at a party in parliament three months before he was sworn in as police minister, but denies the part of dancing over the colleague.

“I subsequently put it to former minister Brown late last night that ‘there are too many reports of you in your underwear for me to ignore,’” Rees told a radio station. (Now there’s a quote you hope not to hear too often from a politician.)

No word on how Brown’s performance compared with Patrick Swayze, star of the film Dirty Dancing. We don’t hear any film studios calling Brown.

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