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Strictly's Amanda Abbington isn't sure if people 'like' her anymore after the Giovanni Pernice bullying row which she claims made her out to 'be the villain' - but insists she has 'no regrets'


Strictly Come Dancing's Amanda Abbington has admitted that she's unsure if people still 'like' her anymore as she opens up on her future following the Giovanni Pernice bullying row.

Despite this, Amanda faced heavy backlash from the public, with the actress noting that she was subjected to '20 to 30 death threats a day' on social media, while her fiancé Jonathan Goodwin was forced to slam trolls accusing her of trying to 'ruin' Giovanni's career. During the chat, she looked back on being in the thick of the furore in which Giovanni accused her of trying to destroy his career, but Amanda insists she was trying to suggest that they have a 'safe space' to 'take five minutes' to ensure they were all 'happy', but yet instead she said: 'I was made out to be the villain.' Amanda is best known for playing Miss Mardle in Mr Selfridge and Mary Watson in Sherlock, the BBC adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's iconic detective stories

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