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Not so saintly now, are we Amanda? She says she's the victim, but the real story is slowly starting to emerge, writes AMANDA PLATELL
Amanda Abbington was at it again at the weekend, bawling her eyes out over her Strictly PTSD experience. Her scraped-back hair, eyes puffy from crying stared out from the front page of a red-top.
Her familiar visage – scraped-back hair, eyes puffy from crying – stared out from the front page of a red-top paper on Sunday alongside the headline: ‘The BBC allowed bully Gio to get away with this.’ Inside, we were treated once again to an updated script of a psychodrama that she has written, directed and starred in for months now, a production in which she plays the eternal victim fighting the injustices of a misogynist world, the ultimate self-appointed #MeToo heroine. The truth is that the battle for the glitterball has been eclipsed by an increasingly embarrassing pity party presided over by Amanda playing the starring role of her life in a movie that might be called Stricken By Strictly.
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