Strictly Come Dancing's first live show 'is thrown into chaos as one celeb threatens to quit due to their partner's ''aggressive'' training style'

Strictly Come Dancing's first live show has reportedly been thrown into chaos after Amanda Abbington threatened to quit following clashes with partner Giovanni Pernice. Butting heads: Strictly Come Dancing 's first live show has reportedly been thrown into chaos after Amanda Abbington, 49, threatened to quit following clashes with partner Giovanni Pernice, 33 Hard work: The actress is said to be 'left shaken' by the pro's 'militant and aggressive' training style with tensions escalating between the pair They said: 'Amanda was really looking forward to dancing with him, but has found his aggressive training style and attitude pretty difficult to handle'. Shocking: The duo are said to have been at loggerheads with Amanda wanting to quit hours before taking to the iconic BBC dance floor for the first time Hard times: A source branded Giovanni's style of teaching as 'Incredibly brusque' which can sometimes 'upset his partners' Throwback: Laura Whitmore, 38, previously revealed she felt 'extremely uncomfortable' being partnered with the Italian hunk on the BBC ballroom competition in 2016 'I was placed with a dance partner I was extremely uncomfortable with – and in the end I felt broken, I cried every day. Dancing Queen: Angela Rippon, 78, will make history as she becomes the show's oldest ever contestant with her cha cha, as the couples' first songs and dances have been revealed Skills: Meanwhile actor Layton Williams, who fans have already tipped to raise the glittery trophy, will show off his skills with a Samba Viewers of last week's launch took to Twitter to predict the Bad Education star would make history by becoming the show's first ever winning same-sex pairing alongside pro Nikita Kuzmin. and Eddie Kadi and Karen Hauer will speed things up with Quickstep to Two Hearts by Phil Collins Strutting their stuff: Les Dennis and Nancy Xu hope to impress with their Tango set to Human League's Don't You Want Me while Ellie Leach and Vito Coppola will dance a Jive to Can't Tame Her by Zara Larsson Also dancing a Cha Cha are Krishnan Gutu-Murthy and Lauren Oakley to Boom Shack A Lack by Apache Indian and Annabel Croft while Johannes Radebe will performing their own to Billy Joel's Uptown Girl They will be going head to head with former soap star Adam Thomas and his partner Luba Mushtuk who's Cha Cha is set to Waffle House by the Jonas Brothers.