Craig Revel Horwood hopes the requirements “do not drop” on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ this 12 months.
Skilled dancers Giovanni Pernice and Graziano Di Prima have been dropped from the skilled line-up amid claims of abuse, however each deny wrongdoing.
And the decide hopes it does not outcome within the present being “watered down and vanilla” as a result of the dancers are afraid to present constructive criticism.
He informed The Solar of the controversy: “I hope the requirements don’t drop this 12 months.
“After I’m instructing casts for exhibits in rehearsals, I nonetheless should be fairly strict. I feel you need to be.
“Are you able to think about an Olympian getting gold along with his or her coach not being strict?
“So far as saying, ‘Oh, that was actually dangerous, you have to attempt it once more’, I’m not gonna cry over that.
“You simply have to have the ability to take some criticism. In any other case, we’re dwelling in a world the place nobody is criticised, and it’ll turn out to be watered down and vanilla, the place nobody’s attempting.”
The 59-year-old dancer says his personal coaching was excessive and the ‘Strictly’ celebrities would most likely have “sued” if they’d skilled what he went via.
He added: “I by no means would have made it with out criticism.
“If my lecturers hadn’t informed me my arms have been horrible, approach too unfastened and wild and uncontrolled, I might nonetheless be wild and uncontrolled.
“My Russian ballet trainer was at all times touching my hamstrings. That occurred to everybody, to make you’re employed from the hamstring up.
“Individuals will say I used to be caned, but it surely’s not about that. It’s a couple of connection of instructing the muscle to work from beneath and never the highest.
“It’s a extremely easy approach of doing it, however should you do this in a Strictly class, you’ll be sued.”
Following the accusations, BBC director common Tim Davie apologised to anybody who has had an expertise on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ that “hasn’t been wholly optimistic”.