Nick Knowles reveals major update on Strictly future after ‘gutting’ injury

Nick Knowles has shared an update connected his aboriginal connected Strictly Come Dancing aft suffering an injury.

The DIY SOS star, 62, was forced to miss retired connected past week’s unrecorded show, which saw Toyah Willcox and Neil Jones permission the competition.

Nick was seen clutching crutches aft damaging his knee, and said helium was ‘gutted’ to not beryllium connected the dancefloor with his co-stars.

It has yet to beryllium confirmed whether he’ll beryllium returning to the ballroom alongside the likes of Chris McCausland and Dr Punam Krishan this week, but the TV prima has present shared an update.

Speaking connected It Takes Two yesterday alongside his pro spouse Luba Mushtuk, Nick said: ‘We had a large week learning the creation and we were doing the camera tech rehearsals wherever the cameras get to spot however the creation works and everything.

‘Very past measurement of the dance, I was precocious getting to wherever I should and leapt to the presumption and my 1 limb stayed inactive and the remainder of maine went through.

‘A spot of a illness and realised it wasn’t successful a bully condition. I wounded my genu basically.’

‘The creation was amazing!’ Luba chimed successful with.

He went on: ‘Each time gets a small spot better.  On Friday, it looked beauteous atrocious to beryllium honest, it felt bad. Saturday was not truthful bully but I got a scan and had a look astatine that we decided to hold until Monday truthful we could person a look astatine that.

‘Monday was a small spot stronger and contiguous I got to spot the physios and with a batch of rehab from physios and doctors, they person fixed maine clearance to effort and creation time to train.

‘If I bid tomorrow, that’s not needfully beryllium the extremity of it.’

He added: ‘We volition spot however I bash time and that is each we tin accidental astatine the moment.’

Luba, 34, said: ‘Today was a large time to person the clearance to rehearsal tomorrow.

‘Tomorrow we volition effort and we volition spell gentle and spot what we tin bash and what we can’t and past set it.’

If the mates are capable to dance, they’ll beryllium bringing their Movie Week show to the ballroom, having had to miss retired connected the taxable past weekend.

Luba added: ‘We volition instrumentality it step-by-step and spot what is comfy and possibly what is feeling uncomfortable. We volition make it together.’

Following an limb wounded the week before, erstwhile Nick was enactment successful a sling, helium told It Takes Two big Janette Manrara: ‘I’m getting sick and bushed of my injuries, everyone other indispensable beryllium getting fed up with it arsenic well.

‘I privation to beryllium capable to bash the creation good capable time that I’m conscionable judged connected the creation and not immoderate of the different things.

‘If you deliberation astir it, everybody has got things to woody with, Chris is doing astonishing things each week, Punam is holding down a GP occupation whilst training, everyone has their ain mountains to climb.’

He added that he’s ‘really happy’ to hopefully beryllium performing a Paddington opus for his ten-year-old son.

‘It was weird for maine sitting astatine location and watching the show,’ Nick continued, recalling past weekend, wherever helium was sat astatine location wearing a suit.

‘The weirdest happening was seeing Luba connected acceptable without being a portion of it,’ helium said, adding: ‘I’m really, truly hopeful, fingers crossed.’

Strictly Come Dancing continues connected Saturdays astatine 6.05pm connected BBC One and iPlayer, portion It Takes Two airs weekdays astatine 6.30pm.

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