Strictly Come Dancing pro Gorka Marquez will change training methods after show 'bullying' row

Strictly Come Dancing nonrecreational Gorka Marquez says helium offers a bespoke grooming league each twelvemonth for each personage appearing connected the BBC show

Strictly Come Dancing nonrecreational Gorka Marquez has changed his grooming methods successful the aftermath of the Giovanni Pernice bullying investigation.

The BBC ballroom amusement was thrown into chaos successful 2024 aft histrion Amanda Abbington accused Italian pro Giovanni of verbal maltreatment and carnal aggression during her clip connected the amusement successful 2023, which came to an abrupt extremity aft 5 weeks erstwhile she quit. The BBC launched an probe and of the 17 complaints, six were upheld, but the astir superior allegations of carnal aggression were not upheld with Giovanni coming retired afterwards to admit helium is simply a “strict teacher” but not a bully.

Gorka - who was partnered with Dr. Punam connected the latest bid - admits helium took enactment of what happened with Giovanni and helium adjusted his attack to teaching accordingly. The Spanish ballroom dancer besides says it’s important for the professionals to get to cognize the personage they are partnered with and enactment successful a mode that suits their personality.

When asked if the Giovanni probe made him change his grooming methods, Gorka said: “I alteration my grooming methods with each celebrity, each year. That’s due to the fact that everybody is different. I deliberation a bully teacher is the teacher that knows however to accommodate to the abilities and the necessities of your students. You cannot go, ‘This is my method, I americium going to beryllium the aforesaid with everybody,’ due to the fact that it whitethorn not enactment with everybody. It’s similar if you person 2 children, the mode that you amended one, the things that you did with one, aren’t going to enactment with the different one. They mightiness person antithetic personalities, determination are differences betwixt a lad and a girl, the lad mightiness privation to propulsion everything astir and the miss is much sensitive.

"It’s the aforesaid happening erstwhile it comes to teaching connected Strictly, you request to adapt. To beryllium a bully teacher you request to beryllium observing and spot and announcement what things enactment and what things don’t work. Then you go, ‘OK, I cognize this doesn’t enactment truthful I won’t usage it. So I volition usage this way.’ It’s proceedings and mistake particularly successful the archetypal weeks, past you get to cognize a idiosyncratic due to the fact that it’s idiosyncratic that you ne'er met before. Apart from that, I deliberation each twelvemonth you accommodate to your personage due to the fact that it’s antithetic abilities, antithetic personalities, antithetic backgrounds.”

Gorka - who is joined to erstwhile Hollyoaks histrion Gemma Atkinson, who helium met connected the bid - besides says each the professionals indispensable person the mindset that the personage they are partnered with lone get to person the Strictly acquisition once, truthful it is their occupation to guarantee they person amusive and marque tons of blessed memories.

He said: “The astir important happening is ever to bask it and person fun. For me, that’s my fig 1 priority. People who travel and bash Strictly, the celebrities tin lone bash this amusement once.

"So let’s marque definite that 1 acquisition is the champion acquisition for them. We tin travel backmost for different twelvemonth and different year, but they don’t. We cannot hide that, we request to marque it the champion experience. Whatever the result is astatine the end, 1 week, 3 weeks, a final, triumph the trophy, you privation them to locomotion distant feeling I had the clip of my life.”

Gorka - who is heading retired connected his ain Speakeasy Tour with Karen Hauer crossed adjacent period - doesn’t deliberation that Abbington’s complaints person had immoderate semipermanent interaction connected the popularity of the show.

He said: “People bask the show, emotion the show, due to the fact that it’s specified a joyful show.”

*Gorka is connected his Speakeasy Tour with Karen Hauer crossed the UK from February 2025.

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