Giovanni Pernice in Italy with new dance partner Bianca Guaccero (Image: INSTAGRAM)
‘s quit the show following allegations of misconduct by actress – and now he’s returned to Italy to dance with another actress, Bianca Guaccero.
With 840,000 followers, she’s huge over there – and Giovanni will be teaching her dance moves on the Rome-based show Ballando con le Stelle (the Italian version of Strictly). However, while he gives her dance lessons, she’s joked that she’ll need to give refresher lessons in Italian to him.
Giovanni was born in Palermo, Sicily, but left the island aged 14 to train in a Bologna dance school, before finding success in the UK. In a video clip, he jokes to Bianca: “You’ll [have to] teach me to speak Italian, because I forgot!”
Bianca quickly hit back: “Then I’ll leave!” in the video. In the amusing footage, Giovanni defends that he is from Palermo – but it’s implied that he no longer speaks with quite the same accent after so long living in the UK.
Meanwhile, British fans have flooded with calls for the “immaculate” and “dapper” showman to return to London. “You will-certainly set the Rome dance floor alight. Bianca is lucky to have you as her teacher,” one fan began.
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Giovanni Pernice and Bianca Guaccero are competing on a dance show in Rome (Image: INSTAGRAM)
“We all know you are a tough, strict Showman in the Dancing World. We need you back in the UK [on Strictly] next year, [as it is lacking entertainment value with your magical dance routines.”
“Strictly is not the same without you Gio, wishing you the best of luck for the live shows there, go and smash it with your lovely partner Bianca, lots of love xx,” another encouraged.
A third predicted: “You will win the show in Italy and next year the show in the UK.”
Meanwhile, although Ballando con le Stelle is due to make its 2024 debut this Saturday,
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Giovanni Pernice enjoying his birthday by the beach in Italy earlier this month (Image: INSTAGRAM)
In an update earlier this week, he vowed: “I received a lot of messages as well saying, ‘Giovanni, why did you leave the UK?’
“I haven’t left the UK at all. In actual fact, I am back on Sunday!”
He revealed that the day after the Italian show airs, he’ll be jetting to a class hosted by his own dance school, Ballando, followed by multiple other dance classes in October and November.
He’ll then return to tour his ominously titled show The Last Dance between January and July 2025.
What the future holds after that may be riding on the result of the probe into whether or not he is guilty of misconduct against his 2023 Strictly partner Amanda Abbington.
The case has attracted plenty of controversy, but Giovanni denies the claims against him, with a verdict by the yet to be announced.