In recent Strictly news, former contestant Laura Whitmore has hit out at the BBC for the way they treated her.
The former Love Island host raised concerns about Giovanni Pernice‘s alleged behaviour behind-the-scenes back in 2016. However, she claims the broadcaster didn’t listen to her at the time.
Giovanni and Laura danced together (Credit: SplashNews.com)
Strictly news: Laura Whitmore hits out at BBC
Back in 2016, Laura, 39, danced on Strictly with Giovanni. They were the sixth couple to be eliminated.
However, it has emerged in the years since that Laura had her own issues with the Italian behind the scenes. She recently confirmed that she did raise concerns about him to bosses at the time, however, she didn’t make a formal complaint.
“I was asked to speak to the BBC along with six people that I know of (who deserve anonymity as they don’t want to be dragged through the press), about inappropriate behaviour they experienced similar to mine with the same individual. I initially raised concerns back in 2016,” she said on Instagram last month.
She then added: “I thought my experience was specific to me but I’ve since learned I was wrong.”
Now, in a new interview with The Irish Post, the Irish presenter has slammed the BBC for not listening to her.
“The stuff I’m not going to talk to you about now, because it’s under review, that’s all coming out now, the stuff I tried to speak about eight years ago,” she said.
Laura slammed the BBC (Credit: ITV)
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