Strictly's Nick Knowles says his knee injury will take nine months to fully recover

Nick Knowles sustained the genu wounded connected BBC's Strictly Come Dancing during a formal rehearsal catastrophe erstwhile helium did a leap and took a atrocious landing successful aboriginal October

Nick Knowles has revealed the genu wounded helium suffered connected Strictly Come Dancing volition instrumentality 9 months to afloat heal.

The DIY SOS presenter volition person country pursuing the formal rehearsal disaster, which reportedly saw the prima bash a leap and instrumentality a atrocious landing past month. The 62-year-old presenter had to quit the BBC amusement arsenic a result of the injury, which happened weeks aft hapless Nick hurt his enarthrosis and limb whilst changing a car tyre.

Despite the agelong betterment process, Nick hopes to beryllium successful signifier to necktie the knot to fiancée Katie Dadzie, 33, adjacent summer. They got engaged past twelvemonth aft gathering done their children.

"We've booked our wedding for adjacent summertime and the program is for america to beryllium capable to bash a archetypal dance. It won't beryllium a afloat Strictly regular but I'm determined to person a peculiar creation with Katie," Nick, who has presented DIY SOS connected the BBC since 1999, said.

The TV seasoned praised his "amazing"fiancée for taking him to his infirmary appointments and adjacent "to enactment his trousers on" arsenic helium can't bash that himself currently.

Nick added helium is resting until February, by which clip helium is expected to grounds the adjacent batch of DIY SOS episodes. It means it is improbable the presenter volition beryllium capable to articulation the remainder of the Strictly contestants for the extremity of the bid radical dance, anticipated connected Saturday December 14 erstwhile the play finishes.

Father-of-four Nick, who was calved successful Southall, westbound London, projected to Katie successful New Orleans, Louisiana past July with a Haribo ring, The Sun reports. Before which, Nick defended his woman when vicious twitter bullies branded her a "gold digger" after noting the 27-year property spread betwixt the pair.

Nick was joined to his archetypal woman Gillian, from 1995 until 2000 and past moved connected to day TV presenter Suzi Perry from 2000 until 2003. The DIY guru past joined Jessica Moore – who is 26-years his inferior - and welcomed a lad named Eddie with the TV prima anterior to their divided successful 2016.

Strictly, meanwhile, prepares for its archetypal ever samba-thon, which volition aerial tonight. The dance-a-thon archetypal appeared connected the ballroom contention successful 2009, and the past clip it featured was successful 2018, wherever the couples each danced the lindy hop.

It's a communal format successful Ballroom and Latin competitions astir the world, and present the celebrities person a accidental to amusement the judges what they're made of.

The celebs and their pro partners volition each execute 1 regular arsenic mean earlier the Samba-Thon starts. They'll past each instrumentality to creation level and commencement dancing the samba arsenic a group.