1 week Ago By Rod McPhee
STRICTLY star Giovanni Pernice may have been left off this year's pro line up following the Amanda Abbington scandal, but he’s still laughing all the way to the bank. In the last financial year the Italian pro made over £1m - an increase of around 38 per cent on the previous 12 months and his highest to date. 4 Giovanni Pernice raked in the big bucks in 2024 Credit: PA 4 This was after he was accused of harassment by his Strictly partner, Amanda Abbington Credit: GC Images Giovanni, 34, is now one of Strictly’s biggest earners thanks to his stage shows in between series of the BBC One dance contest and other side ventures.
But it remains to be seen how his finances will be affected by the scandal as these figures only cover the period up to April 2024 - just before it was revealed he was being investigated by the BBC. He stepped down from the programme last spring while the corporation probed claims of bad behaviour behind the scenes made by Sherlock actress Amanda, 52. But he continued to perform in his own stage show and then signed up for the Italian version of Strictly, Ballando con le Stelle, where he found love, and won the show, with his celebrity partner Bianca Guaccero.
strictly come dancing strictly confidential Strictly in talks with hot Italian dancer as ‘replacement Giovanni’ MONEY MAKER Strictly star says they make more on OnlyFans than they ever did on the show During that time the BBC released its report into 17 claims made by Amanda. Six were upheld and they related to verbal bullying and harassment, but the most serious allegations of physical aggression were not upheld. On Friday the BBC revealed the list of pros who would be taking part in this year's series with the usual line up returning - minus Giovanni.
Other big names, including Johannes Radebe and Nadija Bychkova, did come back. It was also announced there would be two new pros joining the line up, though these have yet to be named. The new account figures, released to day for GP Entertainment Ltd, show he made £1.
12m, up from £809,000 the previous year. His earnings have almost quadrupled over the past four years. In 2021 he earned £284,000.
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Giovanni has over 50 dates scheduled for the tour, which will come to an end at the London Palladium on May 4th. Whilst Giovanni was cleared of being physically abusive to Amanda Abbington, he stressed that it made last year 'a dark year'. He said previously: “I’m not going to lie, there were dark moments in terms of, you know, this is finished, this is the end of my career.
"That was one of my down moments. Sorry for my language but 2024 can f**k off. I’ve been looking forward to seeing the back of it.
” 4 Giovanni joined the Italian version of Strictly called Ballando con le stelle Credit: Getty 4 He is now dating and Bianca Guaccero Credit: Getty All your Strictly Come Dancing winners Strictly first kicked off back in 2004, and over the years has crowned 21 winners. Here is a full list of who has been lucky enough to win the famous Glitterball Trophy : 2004 - Natasha Kaplinsky 2004 - Jill Halfpenny 2005 - Darren Gough 2006 - Mark Ramprakash 2007 - Alesha Dixon 2008 - Tom Chambers 2009 - Chris Hollins 2010 - Kara Tointon 2011 - Harry Judd 2012 - Louis Smith 2013 - Abbey Clancy 2014 - Caroline Flack 2015 - Jay McGuiness 2016 - Ore Oduba 2017 - Joe McFadden 2018 - Stacey Dooley 2019 - Kelvin Fletcher 2020 - Bill Bailey 2021 - Rose Ayling-Ellis 2022 - Hamza Yassin 2023 - Ellie Leach 2024 - Chris McCausland.
