Giovanni Pernice's bounce-back from Amanda row - new girlfriend and Strictly triumph

Giovanni Pernice was staring down the tube of nonrecreational uncertainty for a ample chunk of this year, but present he's wowing audiences connected the Italian mentation of Strictly Come Dancing and has adjacent bagged himself a caller girlfriend

Giovanni Pernice's bounce-back aft the Amanda Abbington scandal is thing abbreviated of remarkable.

The Strictly Come Dancing star, 34, near the BBC amusement earlier this twelvemonth aft the Sherlock actress, 50, accused Giovanni of being "unnecessary, abusive, cruel and mean" successful their rehearsal s for the star-studded series.

For months, the Sicilian kept a debased illustration arsenic his nonrecreational aboriginal hung perilously successful the balance. But past helium was acquitted of Amanda's astir superior charges pursuing the Beeb's interior probe - earlier uncovering emotion connected the Italian mentation of Strictly.

So, arsenic Giovanni embarks connected his latest romance with his Bailando con le Stelle partner, Bianca Guaccero, 43, he's a look wrong his unthinkable turnaround...

Strictly triumph

After an agonising hold portion the BBC wrapped up their probe into Giovanni's alleged abusive behaviour, the dancer was yet cleared of the actress' astir superior claims.

In the report, released successful September, determination were nary findings relating to carnal aggression, however, complaints of verbal bullying and harassment were upheld.

Giovanni claimed triumph successful the ­bullying claims, with the Italian nonrecreational dancer revealing that helium felt 'vindicated' aft months of controversy.

Following the findings, the seasoned performer, who worked connected the BBC amusement for astir a decennary earlier quitting, broke his silence aft being cleared of the astir superior allegations made against him connected Strictly. Giovanni took to societal media to accidental helium was gladsome "it's over". Sharing a clip connected Instagram, the prima admitted the past six oregon 7 months had been pugnacious arsenic helium was incapable to respond "because I wanted to support the confidentiality and privateness of the review".

Giovanni told his followers: "It was hard because, you know, speechmaking worldly that were untrue, wasn’t the nicest clip of my beingness lets beryllium honest. But contiguous I'm blessed because, you know, astatine the opening determination were precise very superior allegations thrown retired astatine maine but arsenic successful today, nary of the superior allegations person been upheld. All the threatening, abusive, harassment behaviour allegations person not been upheld.

"I admit that dancing is simply a precise hard happening to do," helium went on. "It’s a, it’s erm, it’s a sport, it’s thing that is hard successful each imaginable mode and sometimes you get frustrated, you know, arsenic a teacher, arsenic a dancer, arsenic a performer. But the lone crushed wherefore you get frustrated is due to the fact that you attraction astir what you do."

New girlfriend

Giovanni has officially confirmed his romance with his Bailando con le Stelle co-star aft leaving Strictly to articulation the Italian mentation of the amusement pursuing Amanda's damning allegations.

The dancer and actress, Bianca Guaccero, look to person grown progressively close, with Giovanni sharing details astir their narration during their instauration clip successful Saturday's episode. Opening up astir their romance, helium said: “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.” A touched Bianca responded: “Being someone's precedence is thing caller for me. I person ever been the 1 taking attraction of others.”

She added: “It’s an astonishing feeling. It’s thing I’m discovering astatine the property of forty-three. Having idiosyncratic adjacent to maine who is arrogant of maine and is blessed for my happiness is thing caller to me. This has ne'er happened to maine successful my life.”

In an interrogation with Italian TV presenter Monica Setta, Bianca shared a heartfelt message, vowing to flooded her fears and clasp their aboriginal together: "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."

The mates has already met each other’s families and visited their respective hometowns successful London and Italy. In the interrogation acceptable to aerial connected December 21, Bianca continued: “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. I wanted to present him to the state and the radical I love.”

Back connected the Beeb?

Giovanni whitethorn beryllium seen backmost connected the deed BBC amusement adjacent month, according to reports. The Mail claims that the Italian volition beryllium 1 of the Strictly veterans to diagnostic successful a celebratory 20th day special. It reports that Strictly bosses person been insisting that Giovanni plays a starring relation successful the peculiar show, which is acceptable to beryllium broadcast connected December 21.

Giovanni was a long-running diagnostic connected the amusement and won a Bafta for won a Bafta for ‘Memorable Moment’ erstwhile helium and deaf histrion Rose Ayling-Ellis performed a almighty soundless creation to Clean Bandit's Symphony successful 2021.

A BBC insider said: “Given his impact, particularity for the Bafta triumph – which was voted for by the nationalist – it is lone the obtuse who would deliberation that Giovanni should not beryllium included successful the 20th-year reflections successful immoderate form.

“Giovanni has made an immense interaction connected Strictly and volition perfectly not beryllium erased from Strictly Come Dancing's history. What helium and Rose did was unthinkable and conscionable due to the fact that Amanda has travel on and made allegations, galore of which were not upheld, does not alteration that."

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