Amanda Abbington claims 50 hours of Strictly footage is being withheld in tearful new interview

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A tearful Amanda Abbington has claimed she was "abandoned" by the BBC amid the Strictly bullying scandal, alleging that there is a substantial amount of video evidence that has been withheld from her.The 50 year old actress had a falling out with her dance partner Giovanni Pernice, which is now under investigation in a BBC probe.In an emotional first television interview since the incident, Amanda spoke to Channel 4 News, saying: "It's been brutal and relentless and unforgiving. "The aftermath has been something that I wasn't expecting.

You know, the death threats and the rape threats towards not only myself but my daughter, and threats of deaths to my son."Abbington also disclosed her struggle to obtain 50 hours of rehearsal footage which were recorded after she voiced her initial concerns when BBC bosses decided to install cameras, the Mirror reports.

She explained to Krishnan Guru-Murthy: "There's 50 hours of footage that's being blocked. You know, 50 hours is a lot of footage, and a lot of time spent in a room that was toxic."Addressing the camera installation, she said: "So in the first week, I raised my concerns to the producers.

Giovanni said that he asked for the cameras, he didn't ask for the cameras, I know that he didn't ask for the cameras, because the producers came to me and said, 'we're going to put in cameras so we can view the footage at the end of the week and make an assessment and see what's going on'."And then every Friday, after the next sort of five weeks, I would get the producer saying, on the Friday, 'we just watched the footage back, we are shocked and horrified, we're so sorry'.