Giovanni Pernice is already being tipped as a potential winner for the new series of Strictly Come Dancing, as bookies back him to bounce back from his crushing early exit from the ballroom last year.
Arriving back on the Strictly dancefloor as reigning champion the autumn, having lifted the Glitterball alongside Rose Ayling-Ellis the previous Christmas, Giovanni was one half of an all-male partnership for 2022, dancing with One Show and Radio 2 host RIchie Anderson.
After a steady start to the Strictly journey, Giovanni and Richie shot up to the higher echelons of the leaderboard in week two, thanks to their fantastic Quickstep, but were then brought back to earth a week later when they were given the boot by the judges, becoming just the second couple to leave the series.
