United Kingdom, Sept. 29 -- Penn Badgley's wife has hit back at rumours she was the one responsible for the actor's refusal to do any more sex scenes.

The 39-year-old actor revealed his decision to ditch intimate scenes in an episode of his Podcrushed podcast, while referencing his marriage to Domino Kirke, with whom he shares six-year-old son James and one-year-old twin boys.

Explaining why there was limited on-screen sex in the later seasons of his hit TV show You, he said he'd asked showrunner Sera Gamble "can I just do no more intimacy scenes".

He added: "This is actually a decision I made before I took the show. I don't think I have ever mentioned it publicly. One of the main things was, do I want to put myself back on a career pa...