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Deny I featured in awfully rude tape (9)

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I believe the answer is:

repudiate

'deny' is the definition.
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'i featured in awfully rude tape' is the wordplay.
'featured in' is an insertion indicator.
'awfully' is an anagram indicator.
'rude'+'tape'='rudetape'
'rudetape' with letters rearranged gives 'repudate'.
'i' going within 'repudate' is 'REPUDIATE'.

(Other definitions for repudiate that I've seen before include "Refuse to accept" , "Renounce, disown" , "Reject and refuse to acknowledge" , "Give denial" , "Denounce" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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