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Inside the Great Strictly Fudge: Amanda Abbington 'kept going and going', at Giovanni, his friends tell KATIE HIND... who knows what it is like to be on the wrong end of her
When Amanda Abbington told Giovanni Pernice she was quitting Strictly for medical reasons weeks before the show's finale last year, he helped her find the care she needed.
But just a month after she sensationally quit the competition, Sherlock actress Amanda briefed a red-top newspaper that she had asked for the video footage of their rehearsals, revealing she had suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after taking part in the BBC's blockbuster Saturday night show. The BBC launched an inquiry into Abbington's incendiary allegations, and she ramped up the pressure shortly afterwards with a bombshell interview on Channel 4 News with Krishnan Guru-Murthy, in which she claimed some of Giovanni's behaviour was of a sexual nature. Those close to Giovanni say that her increasingly regular public appearances infuriated him and made him feel that he had been put on trial by the media – rather than his former employers at the Beeb.
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