The controversy over behaviour behind the scenes of the UK’s Strictly Come Dancing wages on, with one former contestant saying this weekend she raised issues throughout her time on the present, however was “gaslit to make it appear normalised.”
TV presenter Laura Whitmore didn’t title the person she complained about, however she took half within the present in 2016, when she was partnered with Italian skilled Giovanni Pernice. In an interview with The Irish Instances newspaper this weekend, she mentioned she it was “all popping out now, stuff I attempted to discuss eight years in the past.”
Whitmore couldn’t discuss in regards to the content material of her complaints as a result of, she defined, “it’s below evaluation,” however she burdened she had raised issues on the time.
She told The Irish Times that she either wasn’t listened to when she tried to complain, “Or [I was] gaslit to make it appear normalised.”
She added: “It’s a disgrace that it has to return out in such a victim-shaming method, which it all the time does. And being the primary individual to talk up about something is all the time laborious.”
The BBC reports that Pernice’s representatives did not respond to a request for remark to Whitmore’s remarks, nonetheless, he has beforehand denied all allegations of merciless behaviour by one other former companion Amanda Abbington, whose complaints about her time on the present final yr ignited {the catalogue} of dangerous PR tales to emerge from behind the scenes of Strictly Come Dancing, in what was supposed to be its celebratory 20th yr. The BBC’s investigation into the complaints in opposition to Pernice is anticipated to conclude in coming days.
The present is ready to launch as soon as extra in a number of weeks, with Olympic swimmer Tom Dean already confirming that he has signed up to participate.
