United Kingdom, Aug. 13 -- David Foster has slammed suggestions he "snubbed" Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, at a recent charity event.

The 76-year-old producer was involved in a viral moment last week when video footage of him and wife Katherine McPhee stepping up to pose with the former actress and her husband Prince Harry appeared to show him walk past Meghan's outstretched hand without acknowledging her.

The quartet then posed for photographs together on the red carpet at the event, which was held to mark 40 years of his David Foster Foundation, and David has now hit out at speculation surrounding the "awkward moment" as he insisted he had already spoken to his "dear friends" just minutes before the footage was filmed.

He said in a stat...