Amanda Abbington has disclosed she has postponed her wedding to Jonathan Goodwin until 2026 after going through one of the “worst years of my life”.Last July, the actress accused Giovanni Pernice of “unnecessary, cruel, and mean behaviour” during their time dancing together on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, more than six months after she left the show for “personal reasons”.
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00:00Amanda Abbington has disclosed she has postponed her wedding to Jonathan Goodwin
00:05until 2026 after going through one of the worst years of my life. Last July the
00:12Sherlock actress accused Giovanni Pernis, her partner on the BBC show Strictly Come
00:17Dancing, with unnecessary cruel and mean behaviour after she withdrew from the
00:22show five weeks in for personal reasons. Abbington additionally claimed in an
00:27interview with The Times that it has been a weird 10 years. Other than the
00:32Pernis allegations, in the last 10 years the star broke up with Sherlock actor
00:37Martin Freeman after sharing 16 years together. Subsequently she became engaged
00:43to Jonathan Goodwin who was left paralysed from the waist down after
00:47suffering from an accident in preparation for America's Got Talent
00:50Extreme. Abbington also experienced bankruptcy over an £120,000
00:56tax bill in 2013. In 2023 the actress had also been called out for transphobic
01:03comments regarding a drag show. Abbington informed The Times that the couple had
01:08originally planned to get married in 2025 but had postponed it until 2026 due
01:14to litigation in relation to her partner Goodwin. Both parties shared they were
01:20feeling definitely on the roller coaster.