After four long months, there’s only really been a single lesson we can take from the Strictly bullying report

AMANDA Abbington isn’t the lone 1 with PTSD.

After 4 months and 15 days of relentless Strictly Come Dancing sum — scandals, cover-ups, briefings and not a azygous salsa to beryllium seen — I, too, deliberation I whitethorn person it.

You, beloved reader, astir apt do, too.

Not to beryllium deliberately flippant connected the perils of intelligence health, but OF COURSE the BBC apologised to Amanda for hurting her feelings.

Because, aft 15 years of putting mental health astatine the forefront of news agendas, this is wherever we are now.

The BBC was damned if it did and damned if it did not.

But immoderate your mentation of yesterday’s mixed probe findings, Amanda’s determination to spell legal, to instrumentality her caput supra the parapet, present seems wholly justified.

The corp formally apologised to her for her experiences connected their flagship Saturday-night amusement aft she alleged that her pro spouse Giovanni Pernice bullied her and swore astatine her successful training.

While Amanda — who was diagnosed with mild PTSD earlier this year, post-Elstree — released a heartfelt connection saying she felt “vindicated” for speaking out, the Sicilian dancer’s pals were speedy retired of the blocks to importune he, too, is chuffed-ish with the report.

Their rotation is thus: “While it appreciates that the BBC has apt decided to uphold immoderate allegations to debar accusations of a “whitewash”, they’ve upheld the weakest allegations enactment to him.”

Charlotte Moore, BBC Big Dog — conscious not to stone the vessel — was suitably diplomatic successful her response.

She said: “It’s astir apt worthy maine conscionable laying retired the confidentiality of a complaints process, which I deliberation is perfectly integral to the complaints process, and confidentiality needs to beryllium respected retired of fairness to everybody involved.”

In different words, aft 4 months and 15 days nary one, really, has a Scooby wherever we stand.

Fair play to the Beeb for taking this long, though — and taking connected 2 autarkic investigators to walk hundreds of hours analysing footage and interviewing erstwhile contestants, unit members and accumulation — to effort to get to the bottommost of things.

Lessons person been learned, clearly.

We person each learned that ballroom dancing isn’t for wimps: The lily-livered request not apply, convey you precise much.

Patently, too, the BBC needs to practise much owed diligence connected the celebrity dancers it hires. (And the celebrities it pairs them with.)

Cesspit of horror

Never, successful a cardinal years, should edgy, sarcastic, laddy taskmaster Gio person been paired with specified a gentle, fragile soul, idiosyncratic similar Amanda. What were producers thinking?

Strictly isn’t for the faint-hearted: Long hours, brutal physicality. Can wannabe Glitterball winners grip 7 cardinal eyeballs connected them each week, positive the tirade of maltreatment that is inevitable connected societal media?

No magnitude of media grooming tin brace stars for the cesspit of horror X tin bring — Amanda, aft all, had deplorable decease and rape threats levelled against her. No 1 deserves that.

If the BBC hoped this decision would gully a enactment nether matters, it had amended deliberation again.

Crucially, this study inactive leaves the doorway wide unfastened for different celebs to travel guardant — connected the grounds — with their concerns, harmless successful the cognition their claims volition beryllium taken seriously. That they, too, whitethorn get an apology.

Amanda’s bravery should beryllium applauded — and acknowledgment to her, and the different celebs who person spoken retired astir their clip connected the show, future generations of Glitterball hopefuls volition beryllium protected.

Until now, a pistillate speaking retired has been regarded arsenic “problematic” — an adjective that simply wouldn’t beryllium utilized connected a man.

Whatever happened successful those grooming country sessions — and we tin each hold it astir apt truly wasn’t precise bully — the look of Strictly Come Dancing has changed forever.

Margot arsenic Cathy? Heights of stupidity

MARGOT Robbie, arguably the planet’s astir beauteous woman, has been formed arsenic Cathy successful Hollywood’s mentation of Wuthering Heights.

Margot, who astir precocious played Barbie, is galore things.

But a rustic, bucolic, windswept teen she is not.

Has anyone making this happening ever really work the book?

Boris canine the existent Dil

OF each the revelations successful Boris Johnson’s autobiography, surely the top is that his dog, Dilyn, was struck down with sympathy Covid pursuing his master’s conflict with the virus.

The former PM recalls a Chequers locomotion with the mutt, portion helium was convalescing.

“It was an effort to get up the stairs, and climbing the elevation was impossible.

"So I walked on the level ground, with our canine Dilyn pulling similar a husky, until I noticed to my fearfulness that Dilyn seemed abruptly to person succumbed.

“After a fewer 100 yards helium would prevarication determination each floppy, lingua lolling.

“I had ne'er seen thing similar it, and idiosyncratic Patrick Vallance aboriginal told maine his canine had been the same. It felt similar a medieval chronicle of a pestilence truthful atrocious that adjacent the dogs were struck down.”

Dilyn – a mutt who ate the precocious Queen’s swan, attempted to hump quality legs successful the corridors of No10 and erstwhile tried it connected with Sajid Javid’s cavapoo – needs his ain memoir.

IT takes a peculiar benignant of anserine to alienate 1 fractional of the voting demographic.

But Kemi Badenoch’s casual remark suggesting that maternity wage is “excessive” is simply a sure-fire mode to p**s disconnected young mothers, oregon women considering baby-making. Or, well, conscionable women everywhere.

The shadiness communities caput rapidly cottoned connected to the information specified a proclamation mightiness not beryllium a resounding vote-winner, and hastily backtracked.

As a broadside note, the portion de absorption of her run “merch” is simply a mug declaring: “There’s nary Bad successful Badenoch.”

LAST Wednesday I went for my quarterly Botox top-up.

Usually, Dr Brendan whacks it successful my forehead, a spot astir my eyes, and disconnected I trot.

This time, well, clip hasn’t been treating maine kindly.

“Right, we request to dainty your resting bitch face,” helium said, breezily – and 4 units of toxin were duly shoved successful astir my miserable chops.

Apparently it’s called “smiling Botox” successful South Korea, which sounds a spot much palatable.

FINALLY! Security experts are calling for an extremity to ridiculous, never-ending passwords – ones with peculiar characters, numbers, letters, superior letters and the humor benignant of your 2nd born.

Research shows that the greater the load connected radical to retrieve their passwords, the much they look for shortcuts – starring to imaginable information hacks.