Metropolitan Police officers are assisting Amanda Abbington. The former Strictly Come Dancing star faced horrific messages after opening up about her experience on the dancefloor with partner Giovanni Pernice. Amid a BBC probe and her theatre show in London, the actress had been sent vile death threats on social media.
Things took a horrendous turn on Friday after an email sent to the venue where she's playing warned the star would "die on stage" if she didn't withdraw her complaint against Giovanni. Cops were called an insiders say officers are taking the ordeal "very seriously". After her opening night of When It Happens To You at Park Theatre, in Finsbury, north London, Amanda has reportedly been has interviewed by police on two occasions.
"Specialist officers have been looking at the email closely over the last 72 hours, and now believe they are close to identifying where it was sent from," a source told MailOnline. "They are liaising with another force on this now. This, in turn, they hope will go on to lead them to the person behind the threat.
Officers have told Amanda they will do all they can to find out who the person is behind the email. They are treating it as a very serious and very credible threat and want to unmask the person behind it." Amanda is determined to continue with her current theatre project despite being rocked by the daunting death threat.
Jez Bond, the artistic director of When It Happens To You, confidently conveyed that the actress wouldn't be b.