The actress whose complaints in opposition to her dance companion ignited the wave of dangerous press across the BBC’s leisure present Strictly Come Dancing “fears the BBC will bury its personal findings,” based on the UK press this weekend.
A friend of Amanda Abbington, who withdrew from the 2023 collection and later alleged she had been topic to abuse by her dance companion Giovanni Pernice, advised The Mirror newspaper that the BBC didn’t publish their findings of an inside investigation as a result of they had been attributable to be revealed the identical week former star newsreader Huw Edwards appeared in courtroom over making little one abuse photographs, and “they didn’t need two catastrophes in a single week.”
The unnamed pal added to The Mirror: “They delayed it due to Edwards. We are able to’t think about they’ll do something other than keep on sitting on it and attempt to bury the investigation.”
Pernice left the present forward of the brand new collection, however denies any allegations of wrongdoing made in opposition to him. One other dancer Graziano Di Prima additionally left the present this summer season, fired by the BBC after allegations that he kicked his superstar companion Zara McDermott throughout rehearsals final yr. Di Prima gave his first interview this weekend through which he denied kicking his dance companion, mentioned they remained pals and that he hadn’t been given an opportunity to elucidate away the claims or discover out what it was precisely he was accused of.
The brand new collection of the hit present – which has been bought to territories around the globe, together with the US the place it’s named Dancing with the Stars – is about to launch within the subsequent fortnight, with the most recent superstar line-up introduced in full this Monday. It’s the 20th anniversary of one of many BBC’s most profitable ever exhibits, however goes into this necessary season with a cloud over it from all of the tales rising from behind the scenes. The BBC itself final week revealed an unique investigation through which 15 members of the present’s manufacturing workforce complained of their therapy by senior producers and celebrities on the present.
