ITV Dancing On Ice star Chris Taylor says he's 'held together by tape' amid injuries

Love Island prima Chris Taylor has spoken astir injuries connected Dancing On Ice pursuing his skating spouse Vanessa Bauer's exit from the ITV amusement aft an 'accident' backstage

Reality TV prima Chris Taylor has opened up astir injuries and attending physiotherapy whilst connected Dancing connected Ice.

Chris, 34 - who roseate to fame connected Love Island - is among the remaining contestants connected the caller bid of the ITV skating contest. He was partnered with Vanessa Bauer but she's present been replaced by Robin Johnstone owed to an injury.

Ahead of his adjacent regular implicit the weekend, Chris spoke astir the amusement whilst a impermanent connected the Not My Bagg podcast. He discussed his acquisition with erstwhile Gogglebox prima Joe Baggs successful the latest episode, released connected Tuesday.

Talking astir DOI, helium said: "It's an implicit pogo instrumentality of emotions, I'll admit." Chris added that "it's wild" and went connected to sermon the carnal interaction of being a contestant. The impermanent told Joe: "There's a batch of insignificant injuries cropping up."

He continued by saying: "I person to spell to the physio each week, which is benignant of nice. I get similar a spot of a massage. Sometimes I'm making it up. Sometimes I'm not successful pain. Sometimes I conscionable privation a spot of a massage and a spot of a break."

Chris added that 1 of his knees has been "flaring up" and that he's been experienced a "dead" limb during training. He besides teased that he's being "held together" by portion astatine the infinitesimal whilst connected the show, which returned past month.

He said: "But yea like, genu flaring up. I've got this limb ... my limb goes dead. Not successful a amusive mode oregon a bully way, it conscionable goes dormant during grooming and past similar I can't assistance immoderate more. So they person to hole that. Yeah, I'm holding unneurotic ... I'm fundamentally held unneurotic by sellotape astatine the minute."

The interrogation comes aft Chris' archetypal skating spouse Vanessa announced past week that she would not beryllium capable to continue performing with him connected the caller series. She described the quality arsenic "upsetting" and told fans that it was the effect of her sustaining an wounded successful an "accident" backstage.

She said: "I didn't realise however atrocious it was then, but we did an MRI and it turned retired that I person a wholly torn ligament, people 3 sprain wounded and a large people 2 sprain injury. I shouldn't beryllium skating connected an wounded similar that."

Chris paid tribute to her pursuing the quality that she would person to retreat from the contention amid her recovery. He wrote: "She is hands down the astir committed, determined and inspirational idiosyncratic I person ever met. She gives everything 3000% and it's been an honour to beryllium taught by her. Very, precise bittersweet we didn't get to decorativeness this together, but you've got an annoying member for beingness now."

He took to the crystal with his caller skating spouse Robin for the archetypal clip past Sunday. As antecedently reported, Chris nevertheless aboriginal said that helium was "gutted" by however their show turned retired after falling over during the routine.

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