‘Strictly Come Dancing’s Laura Whitmore Says She Was “Gaslit By BBC”

The controversy over behaviour behind the scenes of the UK’s Strictly Come Dancing wages on, with one former contestant saying this weekend she raised issues throughout her time on the present, however was “gaslit to make it appear normalised.”

TV presenter Laura Whitmore didn’t identify the person she complained about, however she took half within the present in 2016, when she was partnered with Italian skilled Giovanni Pernice. In an interview with The Irish Occasions newspaper this weekend, she mentioned she it was “all popping out now, stuff I attempted to discuss eight years in the past.”

Whitmore couldn’t speak concerning the content material of her complaints as a result of, she defined, “it’s beneath evaluation,” however she confused she had raised issues on the time.

She advised The Irish Occasions that she both wasn’t listened to when she tried to complain, “Or [I was] gaslit to make it appear normalised.”

She added: “It’s a disgrace that it has to come back out in such a victim-shaming method, which it at all times does. And being the primary particular person to talk up about something is at all times laborious.”

The BBC stories that Pernice’s representatives didn’t reply to a request for remark to Whitmore’s remarks, nevertheless, he has beforehand denied all allegations of merciless behaviour by one other former accomplice Amanda Abbington, whose complaints about her time on the present final 12 months ignited {the catalogue} of dangerous PR tales to emerge from behind the scenes of Strictly Come Dancing, in what was meant to be its celebratory 20^th 12 months. The BBC’s investigation into the complaints towards Pernice is predicted to conclude in coming days.

The present is ready to launch as soon as extra in a couple of weeks, with Olympic swimmer Tom Dean already confirming that he has signed up to participate.