The guidelines Strictly dancers must stick to after BBC ‘warning’

Strictly Come Dancing returns this play aft months of contention pursuing a BBC probe into the programme.

The Latin and ballroom contention has travel nether fire following a bullying ungraded erupted, aft Amanda Abbington, 50, claimed that her acquisition connected the BBC series left her with PTSD aft moving with Giovanni Pernice.

Giovanni – who has near the amusement – denied allegations aft she described his attack arsenic ‘unnecessary, abusive, cruel and mean’, while Graziano Di Prima besides near aft allegations helium kicked his personage partner Zara McDermott.

In effect to the accusations, the BBC has introduced caller measures for this year’s series.

The broadcaster besides issued a wider informing crossed the committee to its staff, which warned against the ‘abuse of power’ erstwhile utilizing ‘celebrity status’.

What are the BBC’s caller measures for Strictly 2024?

For the caller play of the dancing competition, determination volition bechaperones astatine each rehearsal astatine each times.

The amusement has besides appointed payment producers for celebrities and professionals, successful summation to a scientist connected hand.

The BBC’s manager of unscripted Kate Phillips outlined the determination to present safeguarding measures including payment enactment successful rehearsals.

‘Whilst we cognize our shows person been affirmative experiences for the immense bulk of those who person taken part, if issues are raised with us, oregon we’re made alert of inappropriate behaviour, we volition ever instrumentality that earnestly and act,’ she said successful a statement.

‘Concerns that person arisen person been fundamentally related to grooming and rehearsals.

‘The decisive steps we person taken and are announced today, enactment to further fortify the payment and enactment successful spot for everyone progressive with this production.’

The celebrities taking portion successful the caller bid person praised the ‘quite remarkable’ ambiance producers person created for this year’s show.

‘I’m really, truly atrocious astir what’s happened to definite radical but I would accidental Strictly is getting it right,’ Toyah Willcox told the Mail.

‘The things they person enactment successful spot are breathtaking. I’ve ne'er met a squad similar it. We person a scientist with us. We person endowment absorption with us. They perceive with a prime I’ve not experienced successful a agelong time. They respond. It’s been rather remarkable.’

Miranda prima Sarah Hadland added that ‘it feels similar everything has been done to marque definite that immoderate of those situations don’t arise’, portion DIY SOS big Nick Knowles is blessed with the ‘help and enactment available’.

He told the outlet: ‘I deliberation it’s important that radical are listened to and they’re taken seriously, which it appears they person been. There is immoderate magnitude of assistance and enactment available, some mentally and physically.

‘Bits of maine are knackered but they’ve already made definite I’ve got physio support. I’ve spoken to psychologists astir my authorities of wellbeing. I cognize who I tin speech to if I person issues. So, yeah, each I tin accidental is that everything appears to beryllium successful place.’

What was the BBC’s informing astir ‘abuse of power’?

In July, the BBC issued a informing crossed the committee to each of its unit that utilizing ‘celebrity status’ to power radical to marque a determination successful your favour is ‘an maltreatment of power’.

The Managing Personal Relationships astatine Work Policy besides gives examples to unit of what to beryllium connected the look retired for including ‘signs oregon grounds of imaginable grooming’.

The papers counsel employees to rise concerns if they perceive astir ‘rumours oregon grounds of a imaginable narration involving an imbalance of power’, ‘coercive behaviour’ oregon ‘inappropriate gifts,’ and study them, oregon sermon them with a enactment manager.

It lists abuses of power, for radical successful nationalist facing roles oregon with ‘celebrity status’, arsenic intersexual harassment, bullying and ‘unreasonable demands’, grooming ‘inside oregon extracurricular the BBC with the volition of idiosyncratic favours, relationships oregon to harm to others,’ and influencing ‘others to marque a determination successful your favour’.

When does Strictly Come Dancing 2024 start?

Strictly Come Dancing returns this Saturday, September 14 astatine 7.20pm connected BBC One and iPlayer.

Who won Strictly Come Dancing past year?

Last year, Coronation Street star Ellie Leach won the Glitterball trophy with her pro spouse Vito Coppola.

They faced fierce competition, with Layton Williams and Bobby Brazier – who were paired with Dianne Buswell and Nikita Kuzmin respectively – finishing arsenic runners up.

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