Chris was progressive successful a car heap up
- Mary Gallagher, Senior Digital Showbiz Reporter
- Published: 10:51, 6 Feb 2025
LOVE Island prima Chris Taylor has revealed he’s battling a drawstring of achy injuries arsenic the ITV amusement is rocked by yet different disaster.
His archetypal pro skating spouse Vanessa Bauer has been forced to propulsion retired aft suffering a devastating ligament injury.
Paralympic fable Dame Sarah Storey exited the contention earlier the unrecorded shows aft breaking her ankle, portion comedian Josh Jones also bowed retired owed to injury.
Chris, 34, admitted helium is hardly holding on, saying: “It’s an implicit pogo instrumentality of emotions. It’s wild.
He added: "Ice is my beingness astatine the infinitesimal until I decorativeness the show."
The world prima besides revealed he’s spending arsenic overmuch clip successful the physio’s bureau arsenic connected the ice.
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He said: “There’s a batch of insignificant injuries cropping up.
“I person to spell to the physio each week, which is benignant of bully – I get a spot of a massage.
“Sometimes I’m making it up and I’m not successful pain. Sometimes I conscionable privation a spot of a break.”
But his problems are acold from minor, with Chris admiitting: “My limb goes dormant – not successful a amusive mode oregon a bully way, it conscionable goes dead.
“During training, I can’t assistance anymore, truthful they person to hole that, yeah. I’m holding it unneurotic – I’m fundamentally held unneurotic by sellotape astatine the minute.”
Despite the pain, Chris is determined to support fans entertained.
He said: “Some radical are truly bully astatine the pointed toe, consecutive leg, pointed toe.
“Jayne and Chris emotion to spot that – I’m not truly giving that.
“I consciousness similar for the assemblage I’m trying to propulsion boundaries, springiness brainsick things. I’m really much comfy doing the brainsick things than getting a bully toed retired there.”
So far, Sir Steve Redgrave, Hollyoaks and Waterloo Road histrion Chelsee Healey and world TV prima Ferne McCann person been eliminated connected Dancing On Ice.
BAD LUCK
Chris’s wounded woes travel aft helium was progressive successful a car heap up aft his precise archetypal unrecorded show.
The former Love Island star shared details of the hairy accident, explaining however it happened erstwhile helium was trying to debar a heap up connected the road.
The Dancing On Ice star told the Mirror: “The time aft the archetypal Dancing On Ice show, I had a car accident.
“There were already a fewer cars connected the broadside of the roadworthy who had pranged each different and they were successful a spot of a kerfuffle, and I thought, I’m conscionable gonna get retired of your way.
"But I forgot to look, and a feline came successful connected the right-hand side.”
Chris past had different acceptable backmost erstwhile his Dancing On Ice partner Vanessa Bauer was forced to propulsion retired of the contention and thankfully, Robin Johnstone stepped in.
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Vanessa took to her Instagram on Sunday to denote the sad news that she would be withdrawing from this year's series after sustaining an wounded earlier the 2nd unrecorded show.
She revealed successful her video connection that she had been grooming with Chris each week and skating done the symptom she felt, not realising the seriousness of her injury.
It wasn't until she went for an MRI that she learned she had "a wholly torn ligament, people 3 sprain wounded and a large people 2 sprain injury."
She explained: "My symptom threshold, I don't spot it, I person been skating this full week with a batch of symptom but I conscionable didn't realise that it was specified a important wounded truthful I didn't dependable my pain.
"I don't privation this wounded that is already atrocious to get adjacent worse and truthful the 1 sensible determination is to measurement away, bash rehab, absorption connected my health - I guess mental health as good - due to the fact that it's truly atrocious that I person to leave."