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Nancy Grace's DWTS Partner Tristan MacManus Said He Didn't Even Notice Her Nipple Slip!

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Sept. 27 2011, Published 2:30 p.m. ET

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By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

The biggest story from the second episode of Dancing with the Stars wasn't any of the celebrities' hot moves or Chaz Bono's low score, but the dramatic revealing of Nancy Grace's nipple.

The unexpected - and thankfully brief - nip-slip during the Headline News anchor's quickstep on Monday night was so fast that her partner didn't even see it!

"I didn’t even notice, and I was closer to it than anyone," Grace's partner, Tristan MacManus told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday. "I wasn't aware that anything even happened or know how much came out.

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"Apparently the top of her dress slipped down, but the producers were really quick to amend it," explained the professional dancer from Dublin, Ireland.

In fact, ABC were so fast to cover up the wardrobe malfunction that viewers on the West Coast didn't even see it as the entire incident was edited out by the time the show hit the airways over there.

"If it happened it happened, we don’t intentionally try and offend people," MacManus told Breaking Celebrity News. "There is always chance of it.

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"It’s a live show and anything can happen, we’ve done dress rehearsals in those clothes and nothing happened. Anything can go wrong whether it is with the dress, the hair or the dance - you just get over it and move on.