also she was a very liberal user of the F-word, C-word and every other cuss word and used to be very proud of that… it used to make me uncomfortable as I’m from a culture where it would be highly disrespectful to use swear words. Inspite of this persona she used to project in public, she is a very thin skinned woman. She would always jump into contentious issues on her twitter with a single minded dedication to push her opinion… which is an admirable quality to have but she wouldn’t listen to any opposing views.. I have witnessed her get into spats upon spats with people who disagreed with her views.
The thing which really put me off her was her inciting pile-ons on anyone who had a negative opinion about any project she was involved in. Every time she was on a tv or film, she would search for tweets related to her projects and quote tweet them to her followers. What would follow was her thousands of followers going after that one person with a few hundred followers and insulting the person which often was worse than anything the original tweeter had said. There was an incident related to the last play she was in where all but two reviews gave a so-so review which other cast members ignored. But not Amanda… she directly tweeted one of the critics - a female one, that too, with a completely OTT response and then posted the whole thing to her followers. See this article written in response to Amanda’s behaviour. Link
In all, she is an extremely temperamental person and someone like that going on to a show like Strictly where she would be publicly critiqued every week… it’s Giovanni who I feel sorry for. I don’t watch the show as I’m not from UK and neither do I know him. I decided to post after reading all these headlines about her and it feels unfair to me that posters here are not doing any background research. Not all women are same and it would be good if all these incidents between men and women are judged on their own merit before deciding who is the victim and who is the perpetrator.