Get daily celeb exclusives and behind the scenes house tours direct to your inbox We have more newsletters Get daily celeb exclusives and behind the scenes house tours direct to your inbox We have more newsletters Peter Andre became visibly emotional as he opened up about his time on Strictly Come Dancing - and put up an impersonated defence of the people who work on the show. The 51-year-old singer - who was partnered with Janette Manrara on the 2015 series of the BBC dance show - weighed in on the scandal engulfing the BBC hit, saying: "They're just dragging everyone's name in and it's just not fair." He singled out Janette, Aljaz Škorjanec, Anton Du Beke and Giovanni Pernice as people he felt he should "stick up for", tagging them into the video, which he posted on Instagram today.
Appearing from the garden of his Surrey home with tears in his eyes, Peter said: "Do you know what? I do feel as someone who was on Strictly that I should just stick up for some of these people because I was there. "I know it was only one series that I was on, but people like Janette Manrara - who are the nicest, most beautiful people - are getting dragged into things like this. "Of course if someone did something bad and someone hurt somebody, I can understand that - of course that's not acceptable.
But because I was there and people like Giovanni were always a gentleman to me, Anton, they were lovely to me. "Not just me - the way I saw them with people. I think when Janette's name got dragge.