AMANDA PLATELL: Lies, vicious rumours and dirty tricks: So who IS trying to kill off Strictly Giovanni? By Amanda Platell for The Daily Mail Published: 12:19, 18 June 2024 | Updated: 13:03, 18 June 2024 e-mail 15 View comments The BBC are reported to be ‘furious’ that details of their top-level, highly confidential inquiry into Strictly’s most famous dancer Giovanni Pernice ’s behaviour have been leaked. There have been previous claims about Giovanni’s tough training sessions with his former partner Amanda Abbington . Yet last week’s accusation was the most serious: that Gio would ‘grab his crotch’ during rehearsals when one of his dancers performed well.
An accusation that he has publicly denied. The race to find the leaker is becoming a whodunnit worthy of the sleuthing skills of Sherlock Holmes, all too familiar to Amanda, who starred in BBC series Sherlock as Dr Watson’s famously loyal wife, Mary Morstan. It’s got more twists and turns than a rumba, and many suspects.
Giovanni Pernice took a cigarette break as he made his first appearance since being overlooked for the forthcoming twenty second-series of Strictly Come Dancing Giovanni pictured with former dance partner Amanda Abbington on last year's Strictly Yet this, as with all the best mysteries, is not elementary. The stakes are high – and such claims must be devastating for Giovanni, as the BBC leaker would surely know. Who had a motive to leak private allegations before its findings? Who held .
