diff --git a/scrapy/http/response/text.py b/scrapy/http/response/text.py
index 854a07f97..14030d8e5 100644
--- a/scrapy/http/response/text.py
+++ b/scrapy/http/response/text.py
@@ -102,6 +102,3 @@ class TextResponse(Response):
 
     def css(self, query):
         return self.selector.css(query)
-
-    def re(self, regex):
-        return self.selector.re(regex)
diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_http_response.py b/scrapy/tests/test_http_response.py
index 6de083cd6..26a628182 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_http_response.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_http_response.py
@@ -294,10 +294,6 @@ class TextResponseTest(BaseResponseTest):
             response.css("title::text").extract(),
             response.selector.css("title::text").extract(),
         )
-        self.assertEqual(
-            response.re("Some (.*)</title>"),
-            response.selector.re("Some (.*)</title>"),
-        )
 
 
 class HtmlResponseTest(TextResponseTest):