Giovanni Pernice confirms romance with dance partner Bianca Guaccero after Strictly exit

Pernice, 34, left Strictly past year and joined the Italian mentation of the show, Ballando con le Stelle, wherever helium was paired up with histrion and vocalist Guaccero, 43.

After weeks of rumours, the brace confirmed they are dating successful an instauration clip to their creation regular connected Saturday night.

“Bianca is my priority. She has been my precedence from the beginning. She is inactive my precedence contiguous and volition beryllium until the extremity of the amusement and beyond,” Pernice said, portion sitting adjacent to Guaccero.

The histrion looked moved by the sentiment and replied: “Being someone's precedence is thing caller for me. I person ever been the 1 taking attraction of others.

“It's an astonishing feeling. It's thing I'm discovering astatine the property of 43.”

She appeared affectional arsenic she went on: “Having idiosyncratic adjacent to maine who is arrogant of maine and is blessed for my happiness is thing caller to me. This had ne'er happened to maine successful my life.”

Pernice wrapped an limb astir her and kissed her connected the feature during the touching moment.

Guaccero besides shared a heartfelt connection to Pernice with Italian TV presenter Monica Setta for Storie di Donne al Bivio (Stories of Women astatine the Crossroads), which volition aerial connected December 21,

“Dear Giovanni, I committedness you to permission retired each my fears, doubts and closures. The symbolic acquisition I enactment nether the Christmas histrion is to judge successful our possibilities,” she said.

In the past fewer weeks, she has visited Pernice successful London and the dancer has met her household successful Bitonto, Southern Italy.

“I had a dense chromatic connected my heart, I had trouble believing successful existent love. When I met Giovanni I felt astatine location and I was successful London with him and past 24 hours with my parents,” Guaccero said.

“I wanted to present him to the state and the radical I love.”

Pernice near Strictly aft his creation partner, Sherlock histrion Amanda Abbington, accused him being "unnecessary, abusive, cruel and mean" during their rehearsals - thing helium powerfully denied.

After a BBC investigation, complaints of verbal bullying and harassment were upheld, portion claims of carnal aggression were not.