Craig Revel Horwood adapts Strictly judging style over ‘bullying’ concerns

Craig Revel Horwood has tweaked his judging benignant arsenic the pantomime villain connected Strictly Come Dancing for fearfulness it would present beryllium classed arsenic bullying and extremity successful him being cancelled.

The Australian-born dancer and TV star, who is the lone archetypal justice connected the Strictly panel, admitted helium had softened his trademark “cutting” remarks amid heightened scrutiny of the show.

“I person changed my benignant of judging,” 59-year-old Revel Horwood told the Radio Times.

“I was truly harsh 20 years ago. When I look back, I think, ‘Ooh, that’s cutting’.

“It would present beryllium classed arsenic bullying, and past I’d beryllium cancelled.”

He confirmed helium hadn’t changed his judging benignant done “fear of being cancelled”, but shifted towards a much constructive benignant reasoning “more similar a teacher than a judge”.

Revel Horwood said helium utilized to beryllium “very direct” with celebrities, but present chooses to “wrap the information successful a bully way”.

It comes aft erstwhile celebrities connected the fashionable BBC One dancing amusement became outspoken astir their attraction connected the long-running series, which is presently celebrating its 20th day year.

The BBC apologised to Abbington aft they assessed the complaints and upheld some, but not all, of those made.

Among Strictly’s caller work of attraction measures, chaperones were placed successful rehearsal rooms.

“Things person to change,” Revel Horwood said.

“These dancers are satellite champions – they’ve been taught decently to win, and the lone mode you’re going to execute that is by idiosyncratic driving you. That’s embedded successful their DNA, you can’t conscionable alteration that overnight.

“That’s precise antithetic to a personage who’s a novice coming in. Celebrities are delicate due to the fact that they’re successful the nationalist domain. They’ve got reputations to support and don’t privation to beryllium seen looking stupid.

“So it’s astir having idiosyncratic determination successful the country and guarding some the personage and the professional, and besides encouraging the information that it should beryllium fun.

“They inactive request to beryllium pushed, due to the fact that we can’t get distant from the information that dancing is hard, but it’s a airy amusement programme arsenic well.”

Revel Horwood besides claimed helium plans to people each the antagonistic comments and alleged decease threats written astir him implicit the years successful a aboriginal publication to “shame them”.