Originally Posted by
star89:
“Why does it matter?
Because these are people, with feelings and Strictly are using them as pawns to get ratings, that's why it matters. They have clearly paired Gio with Laura because of his split with Georgia. It's not fair on any one of them - especially poor Laura who's Strictly journey is going to be nothing about her but everything about the 'Strictly Curse' 
This isn't an Oti thread so why would I be thinking about her? It's no different to Anton getting Ann Widdecombe or Karen getting Jeremy Vine or Katya getting Ed Balls - there's always duff contestants, someone has to get them.”
Um sorry to butt in and I don't really comment on the relationship stuff as a rule because mostly for me it's about the fun and the dancing but.. Strictly has always always, traded on the tawdry side of the street a little bit when it comes to pushing the shows relationships. If they don't actually instigate the rumours and tittle tattle they certainly do very little to stop it. It's part of it, and they love the publicity but the BBC cleverly (or cynically) keep their hands clean by by saying 'what? Nothing to do with us, we just put them togther to dance' when they're ramping up the cutesy VTs and picking the romantic dance tracks.
I suspect that all of the pros and possibly the celebs are pretty well versed in how the game is played. If you're single and even passably attractive you're going to be paired up with another single of a similar age etc. Heck they don't even limit it to singlees-Poor Aliona had to run the gauntlet of endless speculation last year despite being fairly recently married, but she handled it well. It's just part of the Strictly schtick. I didn't watch that year but I understand that Alijaz and Abbey had similar tabloid muck thrown at their dance partnership too. It's all mill for the grindstone.
It may sound unkind but they don't owe their previous employee Georgia anything and unless Giovanni has directly told them to not match him with x, y or z, which I doubt he would or could, then who they choose is up to them.
As it happens I actually don't think it would be in Giovannis best interests to go down that road this year, as leaving aside Georgia, if he does find his next relationship on the show he risks getting a label like Kristina had (and still has
).
However, at the same time I don't see why he should be 'protected' and only partnered with safer older women or worse, duffers until it's deemed respectable in some weird way to move on. I dunno JMO but if Giovannis going to move on, he's going to do so and sooner or later and Georgia will get to hear about it (sooner given the proliferation of gossip and social media these days) . It could be with Laura, but as I said before given how seriously he takes his career I would imagine that he'd do his best to avoid that.
That said both he and Georgia are very attractive young people so I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that either are dating someone soon.
) but i do hope they have a good run when they get over the awkwardness.
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