Zara McDermott breaks her silence on Strictly return as she supports pal Pete Wicks at under-fire BBC show

16th May: Giovanni Pernice sensationally quits Strictly Come Dancing aft 9 years connected the show.

17th May: Giovanni becomes the centre of an authoritative investigation aft 3 erstwhile partners – believed to beryllium Amanda Abbington, Laura Whitmore and Ranvir Singh – marque complaints to the BBC.

16th June: Giovanni releases an official connection vowing to wide his name and denies immoderate wrongdoing.

8th July: Strictly confirms Aljaz Skorjanec volition instrumentality to the series, replacing Giovanni, aft initially quitting the amusement 2 years ago.

10th July: Amanda Abbington launches fresh ineligible proceedings to get the rehearsal footage from her clip with Giovanni, aft allegedly helium refused to merchandise the videos.

13th July: Graziano Di Prima is axed from Strictly for "gross misconduct" aft footage of his attraction of Zara McDermott is brought to the attraction of the BBC.

Graziano rapidly broke his silence, apologising for his behaviour successful a connection and saying helium "deeply regrets it", adding his "intense passionateness and determination to triumph mightiness person affected his grooming regime."

15th July: Strictly bosses implement caller work of attraction protocols, including having a chaperone contiguous passim each rehearsals.

16th July: Zara McDermott speaks retired publically for archetypal time. She states portion the accumulation squad were "amazing to enactment with", she recovered the rehearsal country "completely different", confirming there's footage of "certain situations".

19th July: Anton Du Beke is put nether the spotlight for his "1970s attitude" and treatment of pistillate celeb stars, peculiarly aft allegedly referring to 2009 spouse Laila Rouass arsenic a "p***" aft getting a spray tan.

21st July: Paralympian Will Bayley, who has limb information arthrogryposis, revealed helium was encouraged to leap from a array during a creation routine, contempt fears. The stunt caused an wounded that forced him to retreat from the show.

22nd July: MasterChef's Gregg Wallace admits helium broke down successful tears and got a nasty accent rash connected his look during his clip connected Strictly successful 2014.

22nd July: Despite ongoing issues, the Strictly nonrecreational formed statesman rehearsals for this year's series.

23rd July: Celebrity cause Melanie Blake claims she was sexually assaulted by an unnamed pro dancer portion backstage connected the show, and claims she witnessed ageism, rudeness and a unsmooth attraction to the constituent of injury.

23rd July: Strictly is forced to beef up information aft 'an intruder scales the partition of the rehearsal studio'.

23rd July: BBC brag Tim Davie breaks his soundlessness connected the ongoing allegations against Strictly, saying helium is 'deeply sorry', adding: "Hundreds of people, beryllium they pros, contestants oregon unit person been portion of it and had a superb experience.

"At the aforesaid clip if idiosyncratic thinks determination was thing incorrect oregon they privation to speech astir their acquisition past of people we privation them to rise that with us. Be successful nary uncertainty we volition instrumentality it seriously, perceive and woody with it arsenic appropriate."

24th July: Strictly 2023 prima Krishnan Guru-Murthy holds a bombshell interrogation with Amanda Abbington connected Channel 4 news, wherever she claims she was bullied, with immoderate of the 'humilation being of a intersexual nature'.

27th July: Laura Whitmore releases a connection regarding her Strictly experience, saying "I thought my acquisition was circumstantial to maine but I’ve since learned I was wrong".

She adds she is not portion of the authoritative complaint, but has travel guardant to enactment Amanda with the BBC, alongside others.

28th July: Laila Rouass speaks retired against the accusations regarding Anton Du Beke, saying she "never felt pressured" by him and "personally insisted connected six to 7 hours grooming a day".

10th August: Graziano breaks his soundlessness connected his Strictly axe, saying "these vile, mendacious allegations person ruined my life."

He besides told of the "shocking" extremity to his relationship with Zara McDermott.

We besides revealed that Amanda Abbington was besides quizzed for a 2nd time arsenic Strictly execs recruited 15 caller unit to show rehearsals.

11th August: Just arsenic the probe was expected to conclude, Amanda made a melodramatic intervention. Giovanni was connected the brink of being cleared until Amanda handed successful much substance messages.

24th August: Graziano Di Prima called successful top lawyers to writer the BBC and to effort to wide his name. He recruited large hitters Whitestone Chambers to combat his corner.

A root said: "They’ve besides looked astatine his BBC contract and judge determination are grounds to sue."

Meanwhile, the BBC besides delayed releasing the findings of the probe into Giovanni Pernice. The Sun revealed that the results of the three-month probe were improbable to beryllium announced successful August.