Brendan Cole 'slapped Strictly partner's bottom' and branded her 'pathetic'
Former Strictly Come Dancing pro Brendan Cole also once faced scandal after his partner claimed her made her cry.
As the Strictly Come Dancing scandals continue, more footage of the professional dancers' behaviour have reportedly come to light.
There have been numerous allegations of "bullying" and "threatening behaviour" towards the Strictly pros from their celebrity partners, with Giovanni Pernice and Graziano Di Prima both pulled from the BBC.
Now another name has reportedly been thrown into the mix as footage from rehearsals between dancer Brendan Cole, who has appeared on 15 series of Strictly, and Fiona Phillips has emerged.
Clips showed Brendan slapping his celebrity partner’s bottom on three separate occasions during training and shouting that she was “pathetic”.
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The Times reported that the footage, broadcast on It Takes Two in 2005, shows former GMTV presenter, Fiona, saying that Brendan: “Looked at me like I was something he’d stepped in”. I
n other parts of the montage, she asked the dancer to “stop shouting" at her, and a comment from him about her dancing lead her to say: “I don’t feel like doing it now you’ve said that”.
Speaking back in 2017, Fiona described her former dance partner as "a real bugger". She added that “he wasn’t very nice. He was really naughty.” She said it was “karma” when his contract was not renewed for the BBC show.
In other clips broadcast on Strictly’s sister show the following year, Brendan could allegedly be seen losing his temper backstage and walking off, with a series of bleeped-out profanities. Reportedly, he could be seen shouting “shake your bloody leg” and “I’m always right” at his dance partner, Emmerdale's Kim Tate actress, Claire King.
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The Times publication reported that they had uncovered a second montage from It Takes Two, entitled “Wild Boys”. Allegedly, Jordan told a dance partner they were "the laziest person [he'd] ever met in [his] life … lazy [beep]”. He then reportedly kicked a chair into a wall.
The publication claimed that Jordan said the BBC had edited footage to present him as the “bad guy”, and that he had never received any complaints from his celebrity partners in eight seasons on the show.
Fiona appeared on Strictly in 2005 and was partnered with Brendan, now 48, during the show's third series. The pair were awarded repeatedly low scores and exited during week four.
