WITH Strictly Come Dancing in meltdown following complaints of professional dancers’ abrasive and even abusive behaviour, viewers will be wondering how the much loved family show turned so toxic.
Graziano and Giovanni both left behind family on the island of Sicily when they were young to study at a “serious” dance studio outside Bologna in the north of the mainland.Students at Team Diablo practice for up to 12 hours a day, are drilled to perfect their routines and have been said to lose dangerous amounts of weight.Channel 4 pulls episode of The Simpsons after Trump assassination attempt
Team Diablo school, which has 11,000 members, has created many champions in the world of Latin American dance. Giovanni said: “It was hard as I was just a boy, and without my family by my side every day, I felt as if I lost 50 per cent of my strength. At first there were times where I did cry on the phone to my mamma.”
So on top of endless hours of stretching and training, our diet was regulated. I wasn’t anorexic, but I was obviously too thin.and has reached the final on three other occasions. But he did train at a school where the message to pupils is that to get to the top, you need to put the hours in.