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Giovanni Pernice charges £140 for VIP meet and greet for his Last Dance tour after missing out on £350,000 from TV jobs due to ongoing BBC probe
Having left Strictly, it appears the Italian dancer, 33, is coming up with new ways of boosting his income.
But The Mail on Sunday revealed last week Giovanni has been told by the Italian show's bosses they can't sign him up for this year's series because he has yet to be exonerated by investigators four months after they launched their inquiry. But they are devastated at having to pull the offer - worth around £100,000 to the Italian dancer - because the BBC are yet to clear him after the internal inquiry into Amanda's claims he bullied her during rehearsals. Ballando con le Stelle launched in 2005 - a year after Strictly began in the UK - and is filmed in a magnificent 19th century theatre at the RAI Auditorium at the Foro Italico in Rome.
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