
Amanda Abbington recently joined up for Strictly Come Dancing, and her Twitter account has vanished.
She will compete in the series alongside Angela Rippon, Layton Williams, and Krishnan Guru-Murthy, with more names to be announced in the following days.
Amanda, who co-starred in Sherlock with her ex-husband Martin Freeman, had already been banned from Twitter three times and labelled a ‘TERF’ for several social media posts.
She told BBC: ‘After a three-time Twitter ban, I’ve learned not to be quite so visceral in my anger or upset, just sit on it for a bit.’
‘I was hounded off Twitter and have repeatedly been accused of being a TERF [trans-exclusionary radical feminist] for simply wanting to have a dialogue about it. Because it isn’t black and white,’ she allegedly wrote on social media.
According to the Daily Mail, she wrote this in response to TV screenwriter Graham Linehan, co-creator of Father Ted, who asked: ‘What was the closest friendship you lost because of your beliefs?’ on Facebook. The post was later deleted.
She has changed her internet strategy in response to some opposition.
‘As a general rule of thumb, if I’m going to tweet something that I think is quite inflammatory, I will write it and save it in my drafts,’ she explained.
‘And then I’ll read it after I’ve had a night’s sleep and see what I think in the morning.’
However, the 49-year-old appears to have once again disappeared from Elon Musk’s social media platform.
This comes after Amanda tweeted that a drag baby sensory and cabaret show wasn’t for young children in March.
It wrote that it was ‘abhorrent’ and added ‘if you think it is [for babies], there is something fundamentally wrong with you’.
She posted a follow-up the next day: ‘I lost quite a few followers for saying that a semi-naked man in thigh-high boots dancing in a highly sexualised way shouldn’t be performing in front of babies and it tells me everything I need to know about where society is heading.
‘How do you not agree with me on this?’

Amanda has been active on a separate medium, Instagram, where she has frequently expressed her delight at getting chosen for Strictly 2023.
Speaking of her new job Amamda said: ‘I’m thrilled to have been asked to do Strictly. I’m actually really shy and self-conscious so this will be a great opportunity for me to overcome those things!
‘Plus, I get to learn to dance which I am incredibly excited about. I’m really looking forward to the training too, I’m quite competitive as my family and friends will tell you. I can’t wait to start!’
Amanda will be supported by her children from her 16-year relationship with Martin, son Joe, 17, and daughter Grace, 15.
She is presently dating ex-Britain’s Got Talent daredevil and escapologist Jonathan Goodwin.