‘It’s a nightmare’ - Fears for Strictly’s future as controversies deepen
ok.co.ukIt is the worst crisis Strictly Come Dancing has ever faced - and is one that some are claiming sees the future of the BBC’s biggest entertainment show hanging in the balance.This year marks 20 years of Strictly on our small screens.
As such, the lead-up to the launch of the sparkling new series should be one of joy and celebration, with its usual dose of warmth, glamour and drama, from tense dance-offs to rumours of the Strictly ‘curse’.
Instead, this year it has become what amounts to a PR nightmare. First Giovanni, now Graziano - with two of its most popular professional dancers now facing accusations of bullying or abusive behaviour, the image of a beloved ‘family-friendly show’ - one of the few that the whole family can sit and watch together - is in tatters, and there are doubts about whether it can survive.
And last Thursday, reports emerged that dancer Nadiya Bichkova, who has split from fellow pro Kai Waddington, had approached the BBC to make a 'complaint'.
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