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‘Strictly Come Dancing’s Dark Heart Exposed: How Hyper Competitiveness Seeped Into A British TV Icon & Sparked An Abuse Scandal
How Amanda Abbington and Zara McDermott's allegations have exposed BBC 'Strictly Come Dancing's hyper-competitive "dark heart."
The show has been the subject of simmering bullying and misconduct concerns for months, and the allegations finally hit boiling point this week, prompting the BBC to fire a professional dancer and make tweaks to Strictly’s production regime. In an unexcepted development this week, Strictly professional dancer Graziano Di Prima, another Italian, was fired after the BBC was handed rehearsal video evidence of him kicking partner Zara McDermott, the Love Island star. Mark Borkowski, who is acting as a spokesperson for Di Prima, explains that his client comes from a “poor background” in rural Sicily and learned his trade during “tough” training at Team Diablo, a famous Bologna dance school.
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