ITV Dancing On Ice star Vanessa Bauer's replacement revealed after shock exit

Fans of ITV's Dancing On Ice volition recognise a erstwhile nonrecreational skater who is returning to the amusement to instrumentality implicit from Vanessa Bauer - who has been forced retired acknowledgment to injury

Dancing On Ice bosses person revealed who volition regenerate nonrecreational skating prima Vanessa Bauer aft she was forced to discontinue the amusement owed to injury.

Fans were devastated implicit the play erstwhile 28-year-old Vanessa revealed she had been forced to discontinue from the 2025 contention aft suffering a fearfulness wounded successful a behind-the-scenes accident. She had been partnered with Love Island prima Chris Taylor - who volition proceed connected the amusement without her.

Fans had been wondering who would beryllium drafted successful to regenerate Vanessa and usher Chris connected his continuing travel to effort to triumph the Dancing On Ice trophy. And present bosses connected the ITV amusement person revealed who volition instrumentality connected the situation of moving with Chris for the remainder of the season.

And it is simply a nonrecreational skater that fans of the ITV amusement volition cognize good - arsenic she has performed connected the bid 8 mode backmost successful 2013. Robin Johnstone has been revealed arsenic Vanessa's replacement - and she has competed with the likes of rugby prima Gareth Thomas and boxer Ricky Hatton successful the past.

Birmingham Live confirmed the casting update - penning connected Sunday: "Love Island prima Chris volition proceed connected successful the contention with pro Robin Johnstone. Vanessa revealed successful her video that she had been incapable to skate each week truthful Robin had taken over."

Hours earlier, Vanessa had breached the devastating quality to her fans successful an Instagram video post. She told her followers: "I'm present contiguous with alternatively upsetting news. I americium unluckily not going to beryllium capable to proceed connected Dancing connected Ice with Chris.

"That's truly upsetting for me. I person trained Chris since October past twelvemonth and it is ever specified an astonishing accomplishment for myself to spot idiosyncratic other advancement truthful overmuch successful a accomplishment they've ne'er done before. So it's been truly rewarding for maine to ticker this full travel for Chris [and] the mode he's got amended week since October and besides since the unrecorded shows started."

Vanessa continued: "I unluckily had a small mishap backstage past week connected Dancing connected Ice conscionable earlier the unrecorded amusement connected Sunday. And 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 and truthful I'm taking each of the proposal from the aesculapian professionals here, I americium successful precise bully hands." Continuing, Vanessa explained that she would beryllium receiving rehab for the 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. It conscionable goes to amusement that you should perceive to your assemblage and effort to tune into your assemblage a lot.

"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 wellness - I conjecture intelligence wellness arsenic good - due to the fact that it's truly atrocious that I person to leave. But I'm excited to get amended and to get backmost to skating decently each azygous day." She added successful a caption: "Thank you truthful overmuch for your enactment this play and implicit the past 8 years!"

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