Stripping Fabia threatens to quit Talent

Stripping Fabia threatens to quit Talent
Stripping Fabia threatens to quit Talent

Britain's Got Talent's raunchy stripper Fabia Cerra has threatened to quit the show after being deluged with hate mail, according to the papers. The Sun reports that the 35-year-old - who wowed the judges on last Saturday's show and made it through to the next round - called a radio station on Thursday night saying she was "mentally exhausted". However she phoned back the following day and said she had changed her mind and would continue with the show despite opposition to her performance. "I’ve had a really turbulent week," said the mum of one, who suffers from bipolar disorder. "There's a hate campaign, and I thought, 'Did I want to sacrifice my mental health for the sake of a TV show?' "But we also have a We Love Fabia campaign and I'm more interested in that." Around 40 irate viewers complained to ITV following Fabia's performance, and media regulator Ofcom is currently examining the show to decide whether to take any further action. However a spokesman for ITV said earlier in the week that the producers had given careful consideration over whether or not to screen the performance and had obscured "inappropriate detail".

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.