Amanda Abbington has 'no regrets' over Giovanni Pernice complaints as she breaks silence after BBC Strictly report

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Amanda Abbington has said she has 'no regrets' over raising complaints about Giovanni Pernice's behaviour in training during their time together on Strictly Come Dancing as she sat down for her first interview since the BBC revealed the findings of its probe.

The Sherlock star has previously made accusations about Giovanni's teaching methods during their time working together on the BBC One dance show last year.

Amanda pulled out in week five of the 2023 series, citing 'personal reasons'. It later emerged she'd made a formal complaint about Giovanni, who has since left the hit dance programme as he refuted any claims of wrongdoing following her claims of "unnecessary, abusive, cruel and mean" behaviour. READ MORE: BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Vito Coppola fights tears and says 'miss you' in emotional personal message Months after starting its investigation, the BBC released its findings on Monday (September 30) and confirmed it had "upheld some, but not all" of Amanda's complaints and issued her an apology. "It’s been one of the worst years of my life," Amanda has now told BBC Newsnight.

I’ve been through a lot, women go through a lot, but it has been a very unpleasant, turbulent, relentless time in my life. I’ve had to deal with a myriad of horrible things.” The 50-year-old said in the last eight months, the number of threats she has received had “gone into the hundreds”.