After a TikTok of a dad dancing with his family's 23-year-old nanny went viral, she addressed speculation about their relationship

• A TikTok of 23-year-old nanny dancing with her male employer has gone viral.
• The video, which has 7.2 million views, is being called "inappropriate" and "flirty" by commenters.
• Nanny Lizzie Norton and the couple who employ her have denied any impropriety.

A nanny has denied speculation of an inappropriate relationship with her male employer after a TikTok video of the two of them reenacting a scene from "Dirty Dancing" went viral.

The TikTok video, which was posted on August 3, shows Lizzie Norton, a 23-year-old nanny, and Andrew, a father of two, taking turns lifting each other up and wrapping their arms around each other in an imitation of the final dance from "Dirty Dancing."

Andrew's wife, Rachel, can be heard giggling in the background while filming the video. At one point, Rachel can be heard saying, "You thumbed her boobs."

The video initially went viral on Rachel's TikTok account, where she posts content about her husband, two children, and nanny under the handle @raypo3. She has about 95,000 followers, and the "Dirty Dancing" video has received 7.2 million views. The TikTok video was also reposted by an account called "The Best Loved Nanny," which offers advice and discussion points for aspiring nannies, where it has been viewed 5.3 million times.

Michele Garza, the person behind "The Best Loved Nanny" account, said in a second video responding to the clip that it was important for nannies to "model healthy behavior" with their employers. "With the video, I don't think that anything has actually gone wrong. I just think that it has started to blur the lines," she says in the post.

Various social-media users criticized the video. In the comments, some said Andrew and Norton were "flirting," while others suggested that because of the perceived age gap, Andrew was "grooming" Norton. The sexual-abuse charity RAINN defines grooming as a tactic "employed by a family member or someone else in the victim's circle of trust, such as a coach, teacher, youth group leader or others who naturally have some interaction with the victim."

In the days following the video, Rachel posted three TikTok videos to her account defending the original video and denying allegations of "grooming." Norton joined her for the videos, which received a combined viewership of 5.5 million. The first was captioned "Since you're all nosy perverts."

In the second video, Rachel said that while Norton and Andrew saw each other every day during the pandemic, this was no longer the case since Andrew returned to his workplace.

"On the rare occasion, she does see him. They're so happy to see each other because she's like our little sister," Rachel says. "We love her to death. She's really, like, goofy and weird, and we can joke around and mess with her, and vice versa."

She adds: "When she dates and makes bad decisions on other things, we give her advice. We tell her we're disappointed in her. We tell her we're proud of her."

Norton then chimes in and says, "I'm not being groomed. Everybody can really calm down."

In a third video, Rachel urges people to stop "attacking" Norton, saying: "She's a godsend to our family, and people are attacking her like she's some sort of slut."

Neither Norton nor Rachel or Andrew immediately responded to Insider's request for comment.

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