Giovanni Pernice has responded to claims he's thinking of quitting Strictly Come Dancing after he made an early exit from the competition last weekend. The Italian dancer and his celebrity partner Richie Anderson found themselves in a shock bottom two during Sunday's results show.
BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Giovanni Pernice shares message to Richie Anderson after staying quiet on early exit
10.10.2022 - 14:21 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Giovanni Pernice has shown his support to dance partner Richie Anderson as he appeared to stay silent on his early exit from Strictly Come Dancing. There were gasps on Sunday after the result from week three were revealed during the BBC One results show.
The dancing pair, one of two same-sex couples in this year's series, went up against Fleur East and Vito Coppola after they landed in the bottom two following Saturday night's Movie Week special. They, therefore, had to dance again for their survival in the dance contest on Sunday night after the shocking results were revealed.
After the second public vote of the 20th series, both couples were revealed to have received the fewest votes and had to reprise their third-week dances again after the red light of doom landed on them. Richie and Giovanni performed their head-turning samba to Hakuna Matata from the much-loved Disney movie The Lion King.
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Richie and Giovanni donned Lion King costumes for their performance with the BBC radio host, 34, dressed as mischievous meerkat Timon, while reigning champ Gio, 32, was dressed as warthog Pumbaa.
Then, former The X Factor contestant Fleur, 34, re-performed her American smooth to Part Of Your World from The Little Mermaid with her dance partner, new Italian pro Vito. And it was their performance that was enough to save them from elimination with the judges almost unanimously voting to save them.
Head judge Shirley, however, went against her fellow judges for a second week and said she would have opted to save Richie and Giovanni. Queen of Latin Shirley said: "Well with the two couples the public put in the bottom two I would
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