Strictly Come Dancing professional Giovanni Pernice has reportedly ‘give up’ the BBC present (Getty)
Strictly Come Dancing skilled Giovanni Pernice has reportedly give up the present, following experiences of a rift with actress and former dance accomplice Amanda Abbington.
Pernice has appeared within the long-running BBC present with varied celebrities vying to take house the glitter-ball trophy since 2015, together with Drag Race star Michelle Visage in 2019 and season 19 winner Rose Ayling-Ellis in 2021.
Final 12 months, Pernice was partnered with Sherlock star Abbington however the pair’s appearances had been reduce quick when the latter, who has beforehand confronted controversy over feedback regarding drag exhibits and trans people – for which she later apologised – stepped away from the competitors for private causes.
Reviews later surfaced that Abbington was searching for authorized recommendation in connection together with her time on the present.
Abbington, who additionally starred in Mr Selfridge, was allegedly pissed off after not being given a spot on Strictly‘s dwell enviornment tour, and didn’t return for the all-cast season finale. Based on The Solar, she’s requested to see behind-the-scenes footage of her rehearsals with Pernice.
Now, The Solar has additionally reported that Pernice has give up Strictly forward of the 2024 season. “An inner memo of this 12 months’s skilled dancers for the present has been circulated with out his title,” the newspaper claimed.
A supply instructed the publication: “Gio feels the scrutiny on him has change into an excessive amount of, and now could be the time to make a recent begin. He desires to give attention to different TV initiatives, and feels he’s achieved all he can on Strictly, having received the trophy in 2021 and reaching the ultimate an unprecedented 4 occasions.
“He stays adamant he’s performed nothing unsuitable apart from being a tough taskmaster, however is aware of his fashion of coaching isn’t to everybody’s liking, particularly this present day. He has loads of different thrilling initiatives within the pipeline and [is] excited to get cracking on them. This, now, is his precedence.”
After experiences of a rift surfaced in January, The Mirror quoted a BBC spokesperson as saying: “[We offer] a complete vary of help to all people collaborating in our exhibits. Strictly Come Dancing has all the time taken obligation of care extremely significantly and there’s a fixed dialogue between senior members of the manufacturing workforce and the contestants to make sure any considerations are addressed swiftly.
“Strictly has a proud observe file as a joyful, optimistic expertise the place sturdy help and help is all the time made obtainable at each stage of the manufacturing.”
Pernice responded on the time, writing on Instagram: “I simply wished to take a second to thank everybody who has despatched messages of help during the last week – I actually actually respect it – thanks, thanks, thanks.”
Abbington, who was recognized with post-traumatic stress dysfunction after her Strictly stint, will not be the one former accomplice to have spoken out about Pernice’s coaching strategies after leaving the present.
In 2018, former Love Island host Laura Whitmore, who danced with the Italian in 2016, wrote within the Huffington Publish: “I used to be positioned with a dance accomplice I used to be extraordinarily uncomfortable with, and in the long run I felt damaged. I cried on daily basis. I actually was damaged, each mentally and bodily, by the top.”