Giovanni Pernice says 'it's very concerning' as he addresses Strictly scandal in first TV interview

Giovanni Pernice made his archetypal tv quality connected Tuesday's occurrence of Lorraine pursuing the Strictly Come Dancing scandal, wherever helium vowed to 'set the grounds straight'

Giovanni Pernice made his archetypal tv quality connected Tuesday's occurrence of Lorraine pursuing the Strictly Come Dancing scandal.

Only recently, a reappraisal was launched by the BBC pursuing Sherlock histrion Amanda Abbington making complaints astir her 2023 nonrecreational creation partner, Giovanni, 34.

The BBC person since apologised to Amanda, 50, and said: "We person assessed the complaints and we person upheld some, but not all, of the complaints made." Giovanni has ever denied the allegations and said helium was "happy" aft the probe cleared him of the maltreatment allegations.

Appearing connected Tuesday's Lorraine, Giovanni vowed to acceptable the grounds consecutive arsenic helium admitted helium recovered the Strictly ungraded 'very concerning'. The nonrecreational dancer besides slammed immoderate trolling of the prima and besides claimed they ne'er had an statement during training.

Guest host, Christine Lampard, besides asked Giovanni whether helium would alteration his teaching benignant to which helium said helium wouldn't.

Amanda, who pulled retired of the BBC One amusement past twelvemonth citing "personal reasons", had claimed she was subjected to a "toxic environment" and "inappropriate, mean, nasty bullying".

A written connection from Amanda said it "was not an casual happening to do" to travel forward, and she has been "accused of being a liar, a troublemaker and of being 'mad and unstable'" and that she and her children had been threatened. Giovanni has ever denied the allegations.

Sharing an Instagram station backmost successful September pursuing the investigation, Giovanni penned: "It’s over, it’s finished, six months, 7 months of each of this. Seven months of speechmaking things each time successful the paper and not being capable to respond due to the fact that I wanted to support the confidentiality and privateness of the review, (it) was a hard time.

"It was hard because, you know, speechmaking worldly that (was) untrue, wasn’t the nicest clip of my beingness lets beryllium honest. But contiguous I’m blessed because, astatine the opening determination were very, precise superior allegations thrown retired astatine maine but today, nary of the superior allegations person been upheld.

"All the threatening, abusive, harassment behaviour allegations person not been upheld. Today is simply a time erstwhile we tin each bespeak because, I admit that dancing is simply a precise hard happening to do.

"It’s a sport, it’s thing that is hard successful each imaginable mode and sometimes you get frustrated, 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.

"You cognize arsenic a professional, arsenic a teacher, I privation to get the champion retired of my partner, and sometimes I bash get frustrated. I deliberation everybody astir the world does the aforesaid thing, it’s called being nonrecreational and I emotion doing that.

"You cognize adjacent present with Bianca [Guaccero, his spouse connected the Italian equivalent of Strictly, Ballando con le Stelle], I get frustrated, I deliberation it’s a mean thing, but past you get retired the champion and the results travel forward."

It comes arsenic chaperones person been enactment successful spot connected Strictly during rehearsals for this twelvemonth aft the reappraisal launched by the BBC.

Outlining the show’s caller work of attraction measures successful September, the BBC said: "In July, we introduced caller measures for grooming and rehearsals, which are successful spot for this year’s show.

"These included a accumulation squad subordinate contiguous during grooming country rehearsals astatine each times; 2 caller roles connected the amusement dedicated to payment enactment – a personage payment shaper and a nonrecreational dancer payment shaper (both started enactment successful August); and further grooming for the nonrecreational dancers, accumulation squad and crew."

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