Through the present’s first dwell episode on Saturday, Amanda Abbington of Strictly fame as soon as extra brushed apart rumours of a feud together with her skilled accomplice, Giovanni Pernice, as they graced the dance ground.
The actress, 49, described the dancer, 33, as being like ‘a little bit brother’ within the pre-recorded VT saying she ‘already loves him’, earlier than occurring to confess she hadn’t picked issues up ‘as shortly as she needed to’ throughout rehearsals.
The primary dwell present noticed all 15 {couples} carry out for the primary time with Nigel Harmon and Katya Jones on high of the leaderboard with 32 factors and Les Dennis and his accomplice Nancy Xu on the backside with a disappointing 16.
Earlier on Saturday Amanda shared a video to Instagram the place she rubbished the rumours of clashes with Giovanni in a foul-mouthed rant.
It follows claims she was ‘left shaken’ by his ‘militant and aggressive’ coaching type with tensions escalating between the pair.
However Amanda hit again saying she was ‘ignoring the bulls***’ as she insisted issues are all good between her and Giovanni.
The duo then took to the ground as they carried out a sublime Viennese waltz to to Pointless by Lewis Capaldi, which earned a good 29 factors from the judges.
Shirley stated: ‘Your fluidity, your sensitivity, your lovely styling, you have got this lovely chemistry, I beloved it.’
Anton suggested Amanda to loosen up a little bit, saying: ‘It was all nice, emotionally beautiful. I need you to breath, if there was one other 30 seconds to go I feel you could have handed out.’
