Amanda Abbington Calls Out Strictly’s ‘Toxic’ Environment | This Morning
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- Amanda Abbington joined Christine on Lorraine today to talk about her Strictly experience, and why she decided to speak out about it.
Broadcast on 25/07/2024
Subscribe to This Morning for more exclusive videos: bit.ly/1JM41yF
FOLLOW US:
/ thismorning
/ thismorning
/ thismorning
MORE ABOUT THIS MORNING:
Welcome to the official This Morning Channel! Join us every weekday from 10am on ITV1, ITVX and STV as we discuss the latest news stories, meet the people behind the stories that matter, chat to the biggest names in Hollywood, get the latest fashion & beauty trends, and cook up a storm in our kitchen with your favourite chefs!
#ThisMorning
![[TH] 2024 PMSL SEA Finals D1 | Fall | ยิงต้องโหด ให้เหมือนโกรธกันมาก่อน](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OnTdfGySmds/mqdefault.jpg)
You’re keeping it going on and on. Judgment shouldn’t be made on either side. We shouldn’t believe anyone, until it’s investigated throughly.
Are you joking?
@@csharpe5787 Exactly. We do not know the truth, and it is between them.
@@lizevans7645No
@@lizevans7645yes because that’s how the law works. Innocent until proven guilty!
There are no winners here. Let's all just wait for BBC investigation to complete before having an opinion.
The show has run its course. Its obvious its true. She looks devastated. The producers should be ashamed.
She s good actress it's been 10 months he's the one I feel sorry for all the hard work he puts in ,the truth will come out when he speaks
Would be good to see video footage of the bullying. What goes on behind closed doors! Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and kindness. Not everyone speaks and reacts as soon as something happens, Amanda must have thought it would be looked into and resolved so she would be able to continue. She seemed to have tolerated the uncomfortable atmosphere until realising nought was being done to resolve her complaint. BBC strikes again 🙄
While there seem to be ongoing safeguarding issues in media generally, the BBC should be doing much better than the rest. We pay their wages after all.
Wow… I can’t believe these comments about someone who has made a complaint about behaviour in the workplace. People asking why she didn’t leave earlier. She left at week 5! That’s not that long especially if she made a complaint and she is hoping it will get resolved without her having to leave. You’re also assuming it started at week 1? It may have gotten worse over time.
Everyone wonders why victims don’t speak out… your comments are why!!
What about him speaking out he can't but when he can then defend her two sides to this story
@@elainejefferson.uk5656Why can’t he speak out?
This.
@@Unicornetto14
I have sympathy but five weeks, five days a week, eight hours a day is actually a very long time!!
She should’ve have walked away as soon as the alarm bells rang.
It’s not a work place. Get a life
Well done, Amanda 👏
We don’t know what has and happened and went on it’s innocent until proven guilty
This should have all been done in private until the investigation was complete
Agree..
If the show is so toxic and bullying exists..then suspend or cancel the show altogether..it’s had a good run anyway.
Amanda all the way,the BBC have let yet another person down.Disgraceful.
I doubted her in the beginning as I was a massive Gio fan but not anymore.
I believe Amanda ❤
Any dancer at a high level would have been treated awfully for most of their life, it’s not a kind industry.
Perhaps this guy wasn’t a good teacher; bullied becomes the bully etc.
I don’t like how a difficult and uncomfortable working environment can then be labelled at TOXIC, which has far darker connotations.
This is one of the biggest shows on prime time tv, surely the contestants must expect a lot of pressure to perform?
An abuser chooses to abuse & saying otherwise is just making excuses for them. Plenty of people are survivors of abuse but they don't continue the cycle & go on to abuse other people. There's being a tough teacher & then there's physical & verbal abuse, there's a difference & the fact that people manage to teach without terrorising their students show that it's a choice.
The previous interview with the BBC on this morning , their all sat their laughing about it. Now they want to see the seriousness in it ?
The real concern is she is powerful and frustrated especially with sherlock behind her , it is the vulnerable, helpless victims 😢power is desirable sadly 😢
Strickly is a nice pink and fluffy show but let’s not forget it’s a professional dance competition … blood sweat and tears so toughen up and learn to be a pro dancer 💃
I believe Amanda. Lots of the cast knew what was happening abd the producers apologised every week to her after they monitored the footage. For those of you defending a bully-- bore off.
Two sides to every story. I wouldn't be bullied for 5 minutes , let alone 5 weeks !
@@rjpender70nice victim blaming.
She never done anything that involves pushing your limits . She only reads a script and memories, and that's a job. We give too much credit and love to people who don't know how real jobs and work look like, and because of that, any time people like this face a situations that doesn't make them comfortable they complain in public( of course she has fans and people's that admire here) .
The year before, he won the competition with a disabled person, and you didn't hear her complaining about the abuse (even tho for her was twice more difficult than anyone )
He might have treated the disabled woman differently to how he treated her.
@jujutrini8412 I doubt it as she won, not only been on 5 weeks
@@jujutrini8412why does he treat someone differently to someone else? Unless Amanda was the problem and Giovanni couldn’t hide his dislike for her.
@@daniellefrancis1476 I have known men who have been abusive to a former wife but not to the new one. The fact that he treated one woman differently to another is not proof that he didn’t do it! I don’t know if he did. I need to see video footage to decide.
Not forgetting that fluff/garbage/non news like this fills up the TV news programmes when there is REAL news happening around the world.
I find it so hard to believe that someone who was so gentle and considerate to Debbie, an older woman who had recently lost her life partner, and Rose, a woman with a disability that would change up his whole entire teaching method and whom he moved mountains to accommodate and and learn from, could be this cruel.
People can have different experiences of the same person, maybe he connected with them better, it’s not an isolated incident it’s a recurring theme with some of his partners
That is a key characteristic of institutionalized bullying and of systematic abuse more generally though isn't it. The abuser is considered beyond reproach because of their perceived value to the group. You know this Bessie, you don't need me to tell you. Almost all of us have encountered it at some stage of our lives.
@@killermcmurderer6707 Is it, though? It is only the press that is saying Laura and Ranvir complained. You don't see that admission from their mouths. Richie, Faye, Michelle Rose and Georgia have said nothing bad about their time with him, and even Laura has said herself her only issue was the show making her spend too much time than necessary with her friend's ex. Debbie herself made a tweet emphatically lamenting Gio's loss from Strictly. And with all the mountains Gio moved to accommodate Rose's disability, I find it incredibly hard to believe that is not his true character. It is not a recurring pattern. If it was, Gio would have been dealt with way sooner than this.
@@Lagrangeifywho bias?
@@bessieburnet9816 well now we have had Laura confirm that she had a similar experience with him and it’s not just due to her having to spend time with her friends ex and the fact that there’s multiple complaints shows that it is a pattern actually, just because someone is good with some people doesn’t mean they are not abusive to others that’s the way that manipulative people work.
Also, don’t over exaggerate with the rose situation ‘the way he moved mountains’ 😂 be serious, of course it was a more difficult challenge to teach a deaf person so he changed his style of teaching, but he’s not a god for helping rose be successful, he was just doing the job which he’s paid to do.
I believe her. No~one would go up against the BBC and their best loved dancer and put themselves through this judgement, scrutiny, abuse …. If it wasn’t true! Keep going Amanda ❤
There was a chap who is experiencing the exact same thing it’s not based off being a women.
Sadly a lot of these dancers have been trained in a different manner and from different cultures strictly needs to be training them on how it works on the show and the difference and consider if they can adapt to the difference in how they should be training in the uk on strictly with non professional dancers .
These dancers rely on dancing well for their bread and butter but must be trained better and more consideration into how they will train and treat the people on the show
AA seems to have a lot to say, but there has been very llittle from the person she is accusing. This seems most unfair and unbalanced... continual pilliaring of the dancers with only one side being listened to. It seems that the presenters have made up their mind and am fuelling this one sidedness.
AA body language, hair etc portrays her as a victim, the presenters are portraying her as a victim ..... lets just see what the investigations fine out and what conclussions are made.
Can someone explain what this about why did this happen who bullied her 😢
She was being treated so badly yet she hung on until week 5. The very week she received a £40,000 bonus on top of her £25,000 appearance fee . Must be just a massive coincidence
I mean yeah I’d try to stick it out for that too. People stay in horrible work environments all the time until their paycheck. I don’t think that invalidates what she’s saying 🤷♀️
She wants to get a job on checkout at Tesco they pay well plus double points on staff club card😮
@@lenaoxton8827it does when it will potentially ruin the guy’s life.
@lenaoxton8827 but she's so strong on the issue that money was more important?
@@ZzzZzz968 she must have needed to pay her tax bill!
She will have an agent, what did they do about it?
Has anyone actually SEEN any of the threats she’s received? Her Twitter mentions are public and there isn’t anything remotely threatening in there at all. I think she believes she’s far more famous than she actually is.
BBC will love the ratings for this years launch show. All press is good press right. 📺.
no one forced her to keep going. she could have quit anytime. it is good she spoke up but why continue for so long? contract obligations? i just can’t imagine why any woman would put up with this for 5 weeks? he is disrespectful to me once and i would have put him into place. surely the training is hard but everything can be done in a respectful manner.
Ohh dear we still need more publicity ahh well I’m sure there are plenty more where this came from. Nevermind let’s all ignore how Gio’s feeling. What a one way street… ridiculous.
I'm sure that he's been asked for an interview but, for whatever reason, he's chosen only to issue written statements.
@@fionaashton1738 We shall see sorry but I’m not convinced as I said above.
I really think they should give the show a miss now, its getting all a bit silly hope she and the others who are saying the same things it's got to go, sad but its life now hope she is happy got the attention and a large sum of money put a end to it , because it will happen again, the show will never be the same again
Typical celeb. They have absolutely no idea what hard work is, when they're exposed to it, PTSD.
Why didn’t she just walk as soon as the abuse started? Why didn’t she kick Giovanni straight into touch? Why did she go back and forth for FIVE weeks? Why didn’t she complain at the outset? Nobody is asking basic questions. I’m not doubting her word and she shouldn’t have to tolerate online abuse but these are pertinent questions.
Had she stamped on his alleged abusive behaviour immediately I believe the outcome would have been much more positive for her.
Some people who have received abusive treatment before retreat when they are bullied again. Some people react the opposite way and run away. It is well known that people who have been bullied before continue to be bullied. Of course the correct way to react is to be bold and demand that the person quit their bullying behaviour but all people are not the same.
@@jujutrini8412
The wise thing would’ve been to quietly walk away and make her complaint, at the very outset.
@@sallywright8065 I agree she should have made her complaint straight away. But I do understand that some people seem to be super intimidated by bullying - I have a relative who went through years of domestic violence, got out and then found herself in a bullying situation at work and she seemed to not have the ability to put her foot down. It was like she was paralysed. Now I understand that it was directly to do with the trauma she suffered beforehand why she reacted in that way. If I was in that situation I would tell him to do one and tell everyone about it but that’s just me.
let her stick to her day job and stop ruining the dancers careers she couldnt take it so move on
You must be a lovely person, Karen
So you’re assuming she’s making it up? It’s pretty sad that if what she’s actually saying turns out to be true; are you still going to hold to the same opinion? Sometimes it’s better to withhold judgement until all the facts are known! The BBC needs to release the training sessions. Simples.
Really? She has spoken up and now potentially ruining her own career. He needs to be called out. I find it shocking that the BBC cover up another scandal.
Let’s put things into perspective… it’s a dance show and she didn’t like the fact that he wasn’t nice to her on a daily basis treating her like a star. Can she stop talking about it now please?
You were there presumably.
@@Lagrangeifyit’s obvious that’s what happened! Even in interviews she says she expected the process to be fun and to have a laugh. Talk about entitled! 🤦🙄
10 months ago she said there wasn't a rift ! On here ( look it up). Now, 10 months later there is. Also, why not leave?. She stayed fir 5 weeks!!! I would leave after 5 minutes if it were me. Plus , on every interview she has to mention the play she is...That's odd to me.
She's there to promote the play first & foremost. She was booked to do the play before Strictly even started but unfortunately the show is in the media now because of the complaints & it'd be odd if an interviewer didn't ask her about it but she's not primarily there to give an interview about Strictly or her complaint. Doing media for the play will be part of her contract.
I don't like some of Amanda's opinions on certain things but I'm also horrified at the way she's been treated by a small but vocal section of the British public. The people sending her threats should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
Women can't win - if they complain about abuse they are accused of being weak, unable to cope, hysterical etc but if they don't report abuse they are blamed for covering up for an abuser. Either way, they can't win!
Ferrari despises the BBC so he's not gonna offer an impartial view here
Everyone should despise the BBC.
Has Amanda Abbington cried her eyes out about her experience on Strictly
on literally every show at this point ?🙄
So why did she put up with it for that long
Because contestants that make it to week 5 receive £40,000.
Amanda Abbington Was potentially the Winner of Strictly last year she was not a Ann Widdecombe character and When a pro sees the ability there they get excited maybe over excited by it and they feel she could win and they push harder unfortunately Amanda did not have the drive for it
God in ist 3 days....not believable