Strictly Come Dancing scandal is one of two ongoing BBC crises to involve serious duty-of-care issues
Strictly Come Dancing : Laura Whitmore on the BBC show in 2016 with her professional dancer partner Giovanni Pernice. Photograph: Guy Levy/BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing scandal, like the programme itself, is an enduring one because it taps into our human fascination with the gap between illusion and reality. A performance is just that. Something else is always going on.
The outcome of a BBC internal review into the programme has yet to be published at the time of writing, but it seems reasonable to think that if Whitmore’s concerns had been dealt with sufficiently at that time, the BBC would not have ended up in the position it is in now. Another account that shouldn’t be forgotten came from Paralympian table tennis player Will Bayley, who said his time on the 2019 series left him with injuries that still affect him now. He said he was encouraged to do a jump in practice that he did not want to do.
As viewers, we tacitly know this. During The X Factor or original Big Brother eras, for example, it was a useful starting assumption. And yet some recent accounts of what went on behind the scenes of the reality television machine have still managed to shock.
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