His dancing partner from the previous year, actress Amanda Abbington, called his actions in the training session “inappropriate, it was mean, it was nasty, it was bullying.”
Earlier this month, the apologized to Abbington following an internal review that upheld some of her complaints against him while exonerating him of the most serious charges.
“Bully is a big word, and there’s a difference between being a bully and caring about what you do,” he said on Tuesday on Lorraine on TV.
Following the release of the News was informed that the review looked into it.
