Strictly Come Dancing: Giovanni Pernice says he’s strict but not a bully following BBC investigation

Pernice admitted getting pissed off in rehearsals, however mentioned that was frequent for anybody on the present.

“I get pissed off, the celeb will get pissed off, and belief me after I say each single individual on Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing With The Stars on the earth would get pissed off since you really feel the stress.

“You’re feeling the stress that you just wish to carry out completely on the Saturday evening.

“So frustration, I believe, is one thing that while you wish to be good, it occurs. And I do care about my job.”

He described Abbington as “good” and “unbelievable at dancing”, and mentioned she did not focus on her complaints with him on the time.

“All I had was, ‘Giovanni you are a tremendous instructor’, ‘Giovanni you are nice’.”

He added: “We by no means had an argument. We at all times had discussions about steps.”

Abbington’s account of their time collectively differs considerably.

Following the conclusion of the BBC’s report, she advised the BBC’s Newsnight it had been “an ongoing litany of being verbally abused”.

“There was a 35-minute rant at me with him throwing his fingers up within the air and calling me names and telling me all types of issues that I used to be and the way he could not actually address it any extra,” she mentioned.

“And this went on for, , seven hours a day, for seven weeks.”

On Lorraine, Pernice responded that “there may be a lot that’s not true in these items” and “I by no means referred to as her names in that room”.

In a separate interview with the Each day Mail, Pernice admitted the pair shared “very impolite banter” and that producers had been involved by a few of the names they had been calling one another. However he claimed she advised them: “It is completely fantastic, I began it.”

He mentioned he had not spoken till now as a result of the BBC had requested each side to not till the investigation was over.

He was angered, nonetheless, by an interview Abbington gave to Channel 4 Information in July, he advised the Mail.

Throughout that interview, host Krishnan Guru-Murthy – who additionally took half in final yr’s collection – prompt she had been subjected to “humiliating behaviour of a sexual nature”.

She tearfully agreed that was the case, however mentioned it was not sexual harassment, and that it was “one of many many issues” that occurred.

Within the Mail, Pernice mentioned: “My Sicilian blood would stand up and I would assume, this is not the reality – however I needed to stay silent.

“It was the primary time there was speak of something sexual. In fact, I used to be anxious it may destroy my profession – the those who come to my exhibits are children and girls.

“I used to be painted as an individual I’m not. It appeared like the one level was to destroy me.”