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EXCLUSIVE Strictly's Mr Nasty? Or a passionate Italian perfectionist? BBC insiders reveal how 'fame changed' Giovanni Pernice since he started on show in 2015 as a hard-up dancer with no English - but family say: 'He might be a pain in the a**e' - but he's no bully By Martin Robinson, Chief Reporter and Nick Pisa Published: 07:54 EDT, 21 May 2024 | Updated: 08:31 EDT, 21 May 2024 e-mail 7 View comments Giovanni Pernice can be a 'pain in the a**e'. This is not the Italian dancer being lambasted by former Strictly partners who may have axes to grind - it is the view of the 33-year-old's his own sister on her wedding day. The sun had shone on the Pernice family and the Sicilian hills last June as Giovanni watched with pride as Angela walked down the aisle.

Fittingly for her ballroom star brother's return home to Italy , she was pictured hugging him tightly on the dancefloor of her wedding reception. Angela wrote afterwards of her little brother: 'That pain in the a**e has become a man - a wonderful man. I love you my little brother.



You are my life'. Describing other pictures of her parents and Giovanni, Angela wrote: 'Family is not important, family is everything.' Her wedding day will surely have been supported financially by Giovanni, after an extraordinary turnaround in fortunes for the star who had very little just a decade ago and left home at 14.

Last month the whole family flew over from Italy to watch Giovanni in his Let Me Entertain You show and posed outside the sold .

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