LIAM NEESON has set the record straight after reports claimed he was dating after “falling in love” with a woman.

Liam Neeson, 69, has clarified he had not met and “fallen in love” with a woman after reports emerged he had met someone. The Love Actually star became accidentally embroiled in a misunderstanding after he attempted to make a joke during an interview.

Referencing one of his most famous movies, Liam explained that his supposed love interest was “taken”.

The 2008 blockbuster Taken, sees him play a retired Green Beret and former CIA operative who goes on a search for his daughter after she is kidnapped.

Speaking to Sunrise hosts David Koch and Natalie Barr, Liam began: “I loved Melbourne.

‘B***ocks!’ Liam Neeson sets record straight on claim he ‘fell in love’ (Image: Getty)

Liam Neeson has set the record straight after reports claimed he was dating after ‘falling in love’ (Image: Getty)

“I loved our Australian crew, they are fantastic workers.

“Every department was superb. They were their own people, do you know what I mean? They had a great sense of humour.”

Smiling, he added: “I made a couple of pals… I fell in love, but she was taken.”

But the joke seemed to have gone unnoticed for some, as reports later emerged claiming he was in love.

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Liam Neeson became embroiled in a misunderstanding after he attempted to make a joke (Image: Getty)

Liam Neeson’s wife Natasha Richardson died in 2009 (Image: Getty)

Now Liam has set the record straight, dismissing the reports as “b***ocks”.

The actor said: “It was b***ocks. ‘I said, ‘I fell in love, but she was taken.’

“That’s a joke,” the Ice Road star told the Daily Mail.

Liam lost his wife Natasha Richardson in 2009 at the age of 45 from an epidural hematoma (bleeding around the brain).

She had been taking a beginner’s skiing lesson in Quebec, Canada, when the accident took place.

Liam and Natasha married 1994 and shared two sons – Micheál and Daniel.

He opened up on Natasha’s last moments on life support during a 2014 interview with CBS’s Anderson Cooper.

“I said, ‘Sweetie, you’re not coming back from this – you’ve banged your head.’

“She and I had made a pact, if any of us got into a vegetative state that we’d pull the plug.

“That was my immediate thought, ‘Okay, these tubes have to go. She’s gone.’”