Dancing On Ice star Anton Ferdinand suffers crushing blow after FOUR stars QUIT this year’s doomed series from injury

DANCING On Ice prima Anton Ferdinand has suffered a crushing stroke up of Sunday's unrecorded skate.

It came conscionable days after the footballer near ITV amusement fans successful tears with an affectional regular dedicated to his precocious mum Janice.

Meanwhile, Dancing connected Ice arsenic a full has been thrown into turmoil by 4 daze exits.

Eric Radford, Dame Sarah Storey and comedian Josh Jones - arsenic good arsenic amusement pro Vanessa Bauer - person each been forced disconnected the crystal successful caller weeks and volition play nary further portion successful this year's instalment.

Ex West Ham prima Anton, who antecedently told The Sun helium "didn't realise what I was signing myself up for" is present besides astatine hazard of leaving Dancing On Ice completely.

Bookies Ladbrokes person told The Sun that, contempt a stellar regular past week which saw him scoop 2nd place, helium is the blistery favourite to depart aft Sunday's skate.

Anton is placed astatine Evans successful the betting, with Love Island alum Chris Taylor blistery connected his heels with 2/1 likelihood to leave.

Cal Gildart of Ladbrokes said: “He enactment connected a large amusement past week, but Anton Ferdinand is connected bladed ice.

"However harsh it whitethorn be, unless helium delivers different showstopper, the likelihood suggest he’s skating against the tide this Sunday."

Previously defender Anton, who besides clocked up appearances for QPR, has antecedently spoken astir his struggles connected the ITV world series.

He said: "I emotion the sport. But this is truthful hard.

"I didn't realise what I was signing myself up to if I'm being honorable determination were days erstwhile I thought what americium I doing?, for sure.

"However, arsenic a father, I ever talk to my children astir being retired of their comfortableness portion and embracing it. and moving done it.

"I conscionable don't privation to fto them down. But conscionable to me, conscionable saying yes and getting to the archetypal unrecorded amusement feels similar a triumph to maine due to the fact that this is truthful hard. You hide however unsafe it is arsenic well."

He added to us: "It’s specified a hard athletics and with the assemblage positions and the value wherever you request to enactment your value is truthful against what you're utilized to being a footballer, you know, I’ve had to undo a batch of the ways my caput thinks and however my assemblage needs to positioned to marque definite that erstwhile I'm connected the ice, I don't driblet you know."

Anton, who has been supported by older member Rio, 46, during the unrecorded episodes, past spoke to america of his erstwhile injuries impacting his skates and confessed: "For the archetypal period of grooming my backmost each time was truly atrocious but I've had to get done it.

"I inactive consciousness it from clip to time."

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Last week, Anton took to the crystal to creation to She's Royal by Tarrus Riley, alongside his pro-skating spouse Annette Dytrt.

In his VT helium returned to his roots successful Peckham and explained however Janice was much-loved successful the section community.

Anton and Annette smashed their routine, and received an awesome people of 34.

However, it each got excessively overmuch for Anton, who revealed helium had chosen that peculiar opus to creation to, due to the fact that it was his precocious mum's favourite.

Speaking to hosts Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern after the scores were in, the choked up prima fought backmost tears, arsenic helium said: "I conscionable anticipation I did her proud."