When actress Amanda Abbington excitedly signed up for Strictly Come Dancing exactly three years ago, she did so with the aims of both reviving her career and becoming a household name. The latter she most certainly managed to achieve – but not in the way she had planned. Her headline-grabbing fallout with her professional dance partner, heartthrob Giovanni Pernice, and the bitter feud that ensued after she officially complained about the way he had allegedly treated her, led to a long-running BBC investigation. It certainly made sure that if no one had heard of her before, they had now. But unsurprisingly, the newfound fame did not realise…
