Amanda Abbington Calls Out Strictly’s ‘Toxic’ Environment | This Morning

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

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[csharpe]

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.

[lizevans]

The show has run its course. Its obvious its true. She looks devastated. The producers should be ashamed.

[John_Bradbury]

There are no winners here. Let's all just wait for BBC investigation to complete before having an opinion.

[redruby]

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 🙄

[Unicornetto]

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!!

[karenlister]

This should have all been done in private until the investigation was complete

[alexhaynes]

We don’t know what has and happened and went on it’s innocent until proven guilty

[CatsandJP]

If the show is so toxic and bullying exists..then suspend or cancel the show altogether..it’s had a good run anyway.

[Adrian-btnf]

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 💃

[bgninev]

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 ❤

[stephaniebotten]

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 ?

[alisonbrown]

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.

[bessieburnet]

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.

[LaChartre]

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?

[lizevans]

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.

[bogdannechifor]

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 )

[MichaelRowe-cvoq]

Not forgetting that fluff/garbage/non news like this fills up the TV news programmes when there is REAL news happening around the world.

[Peace-dr]

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

[XX-wdxn]

The real concern is she is powerful and frustrated especially with sherlock behind her, it is the vulnerable, helpless victims 😢power is desirable sadly 😢

[chockycake]

She will have an agent, what did they do about it?