Giovanni Pernice
Giovanni Pernice was born in Sicily, Italy on September 5th, 1990 and is the Dancer. At the age of 34, Giovanni Pernice biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Giovanni Pernice (born 5 September 1990) is an Italian dancer and choreographer best known for the Italian Open Latin Dance Champion (2012) and Guinness World Record holder for Jive kicks and flicks, as well as Charleston swivels.
Early life
Pernice was born in Sicily and moved to Bologna at the age of 14 to concentrate on dance. After watching the British ballroom dancing television show Come Dancing, he decided to become a dancer. Pernice, who is best known for its Latin style, has won a variety of tournaments, most notably the Italian Open Championship in 2012.
Pernice is a member of Federazione Italiana Danza Sportiva, a member of the World DanceSport Federation, and he has competed at Youth and Adult levels from 2007 to 2014. Other notable accomplishments include placing second in second place in the International Open Latin in Slovenia in 2014; Ancona, Italy (2011); Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain (2011). Erika Attisano (2011–2014) and Alexandra Koldan (2014–2015) are among his competition dance partners.
Personal life
Pernice dated strictly partner and actress Georgia May Foote in 2016, as well as Ashley Roberts, former member of The Pussycat Dolls, from 2018 to January 2020. Pernice revealed in July 2021 that he was dating social media influencer and TV star Maura Higgins. Just four months later, the two couples announced their split.
Career
Pernice made a debut on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing in 2015 for the first time in the series's thirteenth season. He was partnered with actress Georgia May Foote of Coronation Street. They reached the final of the tournament, but they finished as joint runners-up alongside Kellie Bright and her supporter, Kevin Clifton.
Pernice debuted on Strictly Come Dancing for its fourteenth season in 2016. Laura Whitmore, a television presenter, was partnered with him. They were eliminated from Week 7 of a dance-off with Ore Oduba and Joanne Clifton, the eventual Series 14 champions, and finished in 9th place.
Pernice performed as a professional dancer in Strictly Come Dancing's fifteenth season in 2017. Debbie McGee, a television and radio host as well as a former ballet dancer, was his celebrity partner. They reached the final of the competition, with Alexandra Burke and her business partner Gorka Márquez as joint runners-up, as well as Gemma Atkinson and her female companion Alja korjanec.
Pernice appeared in the sixteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, alongside Steps singer Faye Tozer. Perpetue was a finalist for the third time in four years, finishing as joint runners-up alongside Joe Sugg and his colleagues, Dianne Buswell, and Ashley Roberts and her new colleague Pasha Kovalev, who were also named joint runners-up.
Pernice was partnered with television and radio presenter Michelle Visage for the show's seventeenth series in 2019. They reached week 9 of the competition before being disqualified in a dance-off with Saffron Barker and AJ Pritchard.
Pernice and his partner Ranvir Singh secured the semi-finals of the eighteenth series in 2020 before being disqualified in a dance competition with Jamie Laing and Karen Hauer.
Pernice won the nineteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing with EastEnders actress Rose Ayling-Ellis. Ayling-Ellis was the first deaf contestant to appear on the program. Ayling-Ellis and Pernice's Tango was among the first 40 people to be awarded during Strictly Come Dancing history. Heat also gave the pair an 'Unmissables' Award for the brief moment in their Couple's Choice routine.
Pernice, a Strictly Professional Dancer, holds the record for the most tens ever awarded, with a total number of 98. He has been on top of the weekly Strictly Leaderboard more times than any other pro in the show's history.
Pernice has also appeared on a number of episodes of BBC Two's Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two. Pernice is the current Guinness World Record holder for Jive kicks and flicks, completing 55 seconds in a competition held in December 2016. He set a new world record for the most Charleston swivel steps in 30 seconds in December 2017, completing 24 out of 24. Both records were set on It Takes Two under Guinness World Records' direction.