Strictly Come Dancing 2024 cast 'will be announced NEXT WEEK' amid claims the current crisis 'hasn't affected any celebs signing up' Have YOU got a story? Email [email protected] By Lily Jobson For Mailonline Published: 13:32, 25 July 2024 | Updated: 13:45, 25 July 2024 e-mail View comments The cast of Strictly Come Dancing 2024 will be announced next week amid the ongoing scandal, according to new reports. Bosses are hopeful it will bring the 'feel good factor back' and steer away the spotlight from the current misconduct probe.
Insiders have claimed 'all celebrities' signing up to the upcoming series have been 'completely unaffected' by the crisis. According to The Mirror , a source said: 'All the cast has signed up for this year. Despite reports of a struggle to get contestants, production has everyone now signed on the dotted line and they are really happy with the mix of celebs and can't wait to get started.
'They decided as everyone was signed they should push the button and make it official sooner rather than later. The cast of Strictly Come Dancing 2024 will be announced next week amid the ongoing scandal, according to new reports 'Once the line up is out, people will have more to discuss and with any luck the focus will be on the future and not what has happened in the past.' Strictly bosses will be introducing chaperones during training and the appointment of two new welfare producers on the new series, in a bid to 'toughen up' their duty of care.
It comes just hours after Amanda Abbington appeared on Lorraine to shed light on her 'awful' Strictly experience with her partner Giovanni Pernice, following her bombshell Channel 4 interview. Giovanni was suspended after Amanda accused him of abusive behaviour, saying he was 'cruel and mean.' He denies the claims.
It was followed by Graziano Di Prima's sacking last month over reports he verbally and physically abused Zara McDermott during rehearsals. During an interview which aired on Wednesday evening, Amanda compared the dance show to 'the trenches' telling Channel 4 News that BBC producers had been left 'horrified' by clips that also allegedly exhibited 'humiliating behaviour of a sexual nature'. She also claimed Giovanni has tried to stop her legal team from accessing the '50 hours' of video 'evidence' after producers were forced to put cameras in the dance studio after Amanda raised concerns.
'There's 50 hours of footage that's being blocked. You know, 50 hours is a lot of footage, and a lot of time spent in a room that was toxic,' she told presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy. 'It's out there.
There is evidence out there of what happened in that room and I'm not the one who's blocking it. I've said anyone can watch it, but he (Giovanni) doesn't want anyone to see it, which is quite telling if he's got nothing to hide.' The actress said that cameras were installed into her and Giovanni's rehearsal studio after she raised concerns after the first week of practice with producers wanting to review the footage each week to assess what was 'going on' between the pair.
Giovanni had claimed he had asked for the cameras, which Amanda says is untrue. 'So in the first week, I raised my concerns to the producers,' the actress explained, as she fought back tears. 'Giovanni said that he asked for the cameras, he didn't ask for the cameras, I know that he didn't ask for the cameras, because the producers came to me and said, 'we're going to put in cameras so we can view the footage at the end of the week and make an assessment and see what's going on'.
'And then every Friday, after the next sort of five weeks, I would get the producer saying, on the Friday, 'we just watched the footage back, we are shocked and horrified, we're so sorry'. 'That was to my face on the Friday when we would go in and do the camera rehearsal.' Throughout the interview, Guru-Murthy, who also starred on the 2023 series, asked whether it was correct that Amanda had experienced 'humiliating behaviour of a sexual nature', with the actress holding back tears as she nodded in agreement.
'Yeah. I mean, you know, one of the many things,' she said, clarifying it was not harassment. Share or comment on this article: Strictly Come Dancing 2024 cast 'will be announced NEXT WEEK' amid claims the current crisis 'hasn't affected any celebs signing up' e-mail Add comment.
