Amanda Abbington has revealed which huge ITV show she'd like to be a part of - as she moves on from the Strictly Come Dancing scandal and Giovanni Pernice bullying row.
In July last year, more than six months after she quit BBC show Strictly citing 'personal reasons', the actress accused Pernice of 'unnecessary, cruel and mean behaviour' during their time dancing together on Strictly.
In the wake of her accusations, Amanda faced heavy backlash from the public, with the actress noting that she was subjected to '20 to 30 death threats a day'.
But now she is keen to put the past behind her and move on to new projects - saying in a new interview that she has her eyes on a role on the panel show Loose Women.
When asked by The Sun if she'd take on the show Amanda said: 'Yes, totally. It's nice to have women's views on things, and I think as long as we don't paint ourselves as miserable old hags.
'I think women of a certain age tend to get painted as miserable and moaning and complaining, and I think it would be good to get up there and have fun.
Amanda Abbington has revealed which huge ITV show she'd like to be a part of - as she moves on from the Strictly Come Dancing scandal and Giovanni Pernice bullying row
In July last year, more than six months after she quit BBC show Strictly citing 'personal reasons', the actress accused Pernice of 'unnecessary, cruel and mean behaviour' on Strictly
'They're great women, and I know a few of them, like Denise [Welch], I love her.'
It comes after she admitted that she's unsure if people still 'like' her anymore as she opened up on her future following the Giovanni bullying row.
Amanda reflected on the aftermath of the row, remarking that she was made out to be the 'villain' in it all, before insisting that she has 'no regrets' about standing up for herself.
While Giovanni's career appears to be back on track, with the dancer having recently won the Italian version of Strictly, Amanda has thrown herself into a new, yet somewhat less high-profile role in the play (This Is Not A) Happy Room - playing to a more intimate audience in a theatre behind a north London pub.
She said in a recent Times interview that she looked forward to the future and told how she would love to continue acting and even turn to directing down the line, but she isn't sure of the public opinion of her following the tough period in her life.
She shared: 'I don't know what the industry thinks of me at the moment. I've been immersed in the aftermath of it all for a year.
'I don't know whether I've been cancelled or whether people don't like me any more, but I know I did what I did for the right reasons. I feel good about the future.'
During the chat, she looked back on being in the thick of the furore in which Giovanni accused her of trying to destroy his career, but Amanda insists she was trying to suggest that they have a 'safe space' to 'take five minutes' to ensure they were all 'happy', but yet instead she said: 'I was made out to be the villain.'
Despite the difficult time, Amanda insisted she doesn't 'regret anything' and in fact was 'glad' she spoke up for herself as she had never done so before, with the situation reminding her of being bullied as a child.
But now she is keen to put the past behind her and move on to new projects - saying in a new interview that she has her eyes on a role on the panel show Loose Women
It comes after she admitted that she's unsure if people still 'like' her anymore as she opened up on her future following the Giovanni bullying row
She said: 'The fallout from it wasn't something I was anticipating, but I'm glad I did it, I am. I'm glad that I stood up for myself because it's the first time I've ever really done that.'
Amanda went on to say that her years of being 'bullied extensively' as a child gave her the push to take action against Giovanni and she can see how 'introverted' people become when being bullied.
She added that when she made her accusations, she was thanked and hugged by 'so many women', which she quipped was a nice changed from the numerous threats on social media.
With the ordeal now behind her, Amanda told how she can finally says she's 'actually happy' now as she looks to moving on with her life, adding that she's 'learnt a lot' about herself and can now 'block certain things' that she couldn't before.
Amanda is best known for playing Miss Mardle in Mr Selfridge and Mary Watson in Sherlock, the BBC adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's iconic detective stories
Last year, she starred in a show at the Park Theatre in North London called When It Happens To You.
