Giovanni Pernice has announced his new 2025 dancing tour Together Again with his close pal Anton Du Beke.
The former Strictly professional, 34, is moving onwards and upwards with his career plans after being cleared of the majority of bullying allegations against him in a recent BBC probe.
Six of his former partner actress Amanda Abbington’s allegations against him were upheld – after she made a series of bullying claims against him during her time on the show last year.
The Corporation apologised to the Sherlock actress, 50, who said she felt ‘vindicated’ by the investigation, despite Giovanni being cleared on 11 of 17 allegations.
But now Giovanni is looking to the future with his new tour with his ‘best friend’ as he shared the exciting news with his delighted fans.
Giovanni Pernice has announced his new 2025 dancing tour Together Again with his close pal Anton Du Beke
Giovanni said in his post: ‘BREAKING NEWS! If you were wondering now is confirmed !!the double act is back on the road!
‘Me and my best friend @mrantondubeke are back on tour next summer ! www.antonandgiovanni.com See you all there ♥️♥️♥️.’
While Anton said in his post: ‘Exciting news my loves! I’m so happy to announce the double act is going back out on the road! @giovannipernice and I are going on tour again next summer.
‘Tickets go on sale on Friday at 10am – www.antonandgiovanni.com. See you all there! ❤️ Lots of love – Anton XX ✨.’
It comes after Anton showed his support for Giovanni, after he shared ‘relief’ that he was cleared of the ‘majority’ of allegations made against him by Amanda.
A six-month probe into the star, who is now performing on the Italian version of the show, came to an end recently, with Giovanni saying that he hopes to put an ‘extremely difficult’ year behind him.
In a video shared on Instagram, Giovanni said that he was ‘happy’ to learn that all of the ‘very serious allegations’ hadn’t been upheld.
He added: ‘I’m happy because today I can carry on to do what I was born to do, and I love to do which is entertain all of you, because this is my life.’
The former Strictly professional, 34, is moving onwards and upwards with his career plans after being cleared of the majority of bullying allegations against him in a recent BBC probe
Giovanni is looking to the future with his new tour with his ‘best friend’ as he shared the exciting news with his delighted fans
Giovanni said in his post: ‘BREAKING NEWS ! If you were wondering now is confirmed !!the double act is back on the road!’
While Anton said in his post: ‘Exciting news my loves! I’m so happy to announce the double act is going back out on the road! @giovannipernice and I are going on tour again next summer’
Under the post, Strictly judges Anton and Motsi Mabuse ‘liked’ the post, while Craig Revel Horwood commented with a heart emoji.
Anton recently opened up on his ‘awful’ Strictly partners after showing his support for Giovanni amid the misconduct scandal.
The pro dancer and judge, 58, was paired with celebrities such as Ruth Langsford, Ann Widdecombe, Lesley Joseph and Esther Rantzen.
Anton was dragged into the misconduct scandal after reportedly ‘raising concern’ due to his ‘1970s-style behaviour’ with former dance partner Laila Rouass.
Now, he has insisted that his Strictly training studio never became heated – because he was usually paired with older women who were always going to be ‘awful’ dancers.
Anton told the Cheltenham Literature Festival: ‘I say this in the nicest way but none of them are 25,’ and added later: ‘Because they can’t dance, even when they are good it is awful.’
Anton told the festival, which is sponsored by The Times and The Sunday Times, more about his celeb partners: ‘They are wonderful, interesting, fabulous, brilliant, funny, intelligent women who I enjoyed every second with, but it is what it is.
They have previously starred together on the BBC show Anton & Giovanni’s Adventures In Spain
Six of his former partner actress Amanda Abbington’s allegations against him were upheld – after she made a series of bullying claims against him during her time on the show last year
‘I said to one of my partners, ‘Are you flexible’. They said, ‘Yes but I can’t do Tuesdays’,’ he said, adding that all he wanted was for them to ‘try their best. That is as much as you can do.’
Anton seemed to be unaffected after he was named as the ‘fourth star dragged into the misconduct probe’ earlier this year.
During the 2009 series, he reduced contestant Laila, who is of Indian and Moroccan descent, to tears when he jokingly told her she ‘looked like a P***’ after a spray tan, with the comments resurfacing this week.
Anton apologised to Laila at the time and admitted he felt ‘stupid’ and ’embarrassed’ by his comments to the actress, with the duo making amends a few weeks later.
