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Piers Morgan launches attack on ‘nasty’ Amanda Abbington as he accuses her of ‘self-pitying publicity tour’ amid Strictly scandal

Piers Morgan has launched a blistering attack on Amanda Abbington as she continues to make claims about her time on Strictly Come Dancing.

Amanda was partnered with Giovanni Pernice on last year’s Strictly (Credit: BBC)Writing in his column for The Sun, he began by stating he had “great admiration” for his former colleagues such as Susanna Reid, Charlotte Hawkins and Ranvir Singh who have taken part. Piers suggests Amanda has “spent the past eight months on a self-pitying publicity tour in which she portrays herself as Lead Victim at the supposedly devil hands of Italian pro dancer Giovanni Pernice”. She has made a number of claims about Giovanni since leaving the show (Credit: Channel 4)He said that, from his own personal experience, Amanda “is a nasty little social media troll very happy to dish out man-hating verbal abuse when it suits her”.

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