Dancing on Ice star Chris Taylor has revealed he was involved in a car crash after competing in the first live show. The Love Island star, 34, is appearing on the current season of the ITV ice skating series alongside other stars including Anton Ferdinand, Michaela Strachan and Mollie Pearce. However last week his professional partner Vanessa Bauer was forced to pull out of the competition just hours before the live show after hurting herself backstage.

Then, when taking to the rink with his new partner, Robin Johnstone, the pair took a tumble. A few days on, Chris has now spoken about how his time on the series also started with a setback after he was caught up in the car crash. ‘The day after the first Dancing On Ice show I had a car accident. There were already a few cars on the side of the road who had pranged each other and they were in a bit of a kerfuffle, and I thought, I’m just gonna get out of your way,’ he explained on Not My Bagg podcast.

Despite the close call, things took a turn from there. ‘But I forgot to look, and a guy came in on the right-hand side. The guy got out and said, “You’re Chris” and it ended up being a really nice conversation and he said, “you skated really well yesterday”. ‘Anyway, we just sorted it out between us, and I backhanded him some cash to save going through the insurance. Not actually sure if I should say that or not! Is it allowed?!’.

During the interview, Chris admitted he was surprised he was still in the competition but that he was ‘hanging on like a thread’. Following his fall on Sunday’s live show Chris said he was ‘gutted’. ‘I am gutted. I really wanted to do that justice. Vanessa choreographed it. It’s nothing to do with the situation – I just decked it. But we got up and did the rest,’ he added. When announcing her exit from the show, Vanessa posted a video on social media in which she said: ‘I’m here today with rather upsetting news. I am unfortunately not going to be able to continue on Dancing on Ice with Chris. That’s really upsetting for me. I have trained Chris since October last year and it is always such an amazing achievement for myself to see someone else progress so much in a skill they’ve never done before.’.

‘I unfortunately had a little accident backstage last week on Dancing on Ice just before the live show on Sunday. And I didn’t realise how bad it was then, but we did an MRI, and it turned out that I have a completely torn ligament, grade three sprain injury and a major grade two sprain injury.’. In the lengthy video, she also added she ‘shouldn’t be skating on an injury like that’ and she had heeded advice from medical professionals.

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