Strictly Come Dancing choose Craig Revel Horwood has revealed that he was utterly shocked by the bullying allegations going through the present.
BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing has made headlines just lately as Graziano Di Prima, 30, left the BBC collection following claims of ‘physical incidents’, together with allegations he ‘kicked and hit’ his 2023 associate, Zara McDermott.
It was later confirmed that he did kick his former dance partner and new feedback from Amanda Abbington have emerged as she claimed her former dance partner Giovanni Pernice was ‘cruel’. Pernice has denied any wrongdoing.
Addressing the claims from former contestants on BBC Radio Wales, the Strictly choose stated it ‘news’ to him.
‘I’m simply discovering out (concerning the allegations), like all people else, via the press.
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‘For me, it’s a shock, and information to me, as a result of the judges are by no means current at any of the educating, we actually are available in on a Saturday and simply choose what we see earlier than us.
Craig has been a choose on the competitors for the reason that present started in 2004 and has appeared in all 21 seasons.
He then added that he and the opposite judges are stored ‘separate’ from the remainder of the solid.
‘So we’re stored very, very separate to the remainder of the corporate.
‘For us it’s full information. Every day that I examine one thing I feel ‘That can’t be proper.’
He then emphasised that he had ‘nothing to do’ with the accusations: ‘So I’ll wait and see what occurs with the investigations, however definitely we’ve nothing to do with that.’
The BBC is now introducing drastic changes and introducing two new welfare roles. It was then detailed that the dance rehearsals will now be monitored, explaining ‘a production team member present during training room rehearsals at all times.’
Craig supported these modifications and added: ‘When I was in (musical) Annie we had chaperones everywhere, because of the kids and laws and all of that stuff.’
‘And I’ve seen within the theatre world we’ve chaperones and other people we will communicate to when you’re having a down day.
‘We have psychologists on the shows now, and all of that, so I think it’s only a regular development of what’s occurring in life now.’
He concluded: ‘I think it’s good. I feel it’s good to have that.’
The choose additionally confirmed that he wasn’t nervous about the way forward for the present, regardless of the calls that the dance competition shouldn’t continue.
‘I don’t suppose so as a result of it’s a type of exhibits that belongs within the individuals’s hearts which can be at house who love dancing, and there’s nothing higher than seeing somebody come from nothing and work arduous and transfer as much as being completely phenomenal.’
The BBC confirmed that the show will return in the autumn with Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman returning to host within the new season.
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