Anton Du Beke weighs in on Strictly Come Dancing bullying row

Anton Du Beke weighs in on Strictly Come Dancing bullying rowBBC

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00:00Did you ever see anything during those years that made you uncomfortable?

00:07No. No. I can only speak for myself, of course.

00:10Because when we're in...

00:13The only time we're all together as a group is on the Saturdays,

00:17so the live show day.

00:20The rest of the week, you're off with your partners.

00:22For example, if you and I danced together,

00:24we'd be off in a studio rehearsing all day.

00:27It'd just be you and I and the camera crew.

00:29And so that's as much time as you have with everybody else.

00:36One day.

00:37So, you know, you can only speak about one's own experience.

00:40And I enjoyed my time as a professional dancer enormously.

00:46I had the most wonderful relationships with all my partners

00:49who I wouldn't have changed for the world, all of them.

00:54And I got the great opportunity to spend some brilliant time

00:59with some incredibly interesting and wonderful ladies

01:02who I probably wouldn't have crossed paths with in sort of normal life.