Craig Revel Horwood: Why I'm still friends with Giovanni

Craig Revel Horwood ‘still friends’ with Giovanni Pernice after Strictly scandal

Judge said show’s professional dancers ‘are not psychologists’ and contestants need to feel ‘challenged’

Craig Revel Horwood: Why I'm still friends with Giovanni

“I’m sick of people putting me in a box. There’s much more to me than there is to my ‘Mr Nasty’ Strictly character,” says Craig Revel Horwood. After 20 years on primetime TV spent “mostly holding up paddles marked from one to four” and delivering withering feedback to crestfallen celebrities, he “wants people to get to know the real me”. To this end, the 60-year-old star is embarking on nationwide tour Revelations, telling the story of his journ…