Dancing on Ice’s Michaela Strachan on crutches before 2025 live launch
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‘Springwatch’ host suffered injury before stepping foot in the rink. Michaela Strachan has been injured just weeks before Dancing on Ice begins. The Springwatch presenter will compete on the ITV skating competition with professional Mark Hanretty when the show launches on Sunday (12 January).
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ITV’s popular competition will feature 11 new celebrity contestants, including Sir Steve Redgrave, Coronation Street star Sam Aston and former Traitors contestants Mollie Pearce. However, Strachan has admitted that she suffered her worst injury just weeks before she began training.
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Her injury occurred when she sprained her ankle while out running with her partner, Nick Chevallier. Initially thinking she was not hurt, Michaela said she “hobbled back down the mountain. Meanwhile,” she added, “my partner is going, ‘You’re doing Dancing on Ice! This is really not good. You’re injured before you even hit the ice.’”.
Having completed a stint as a contestant on ITV’s Splash in 2014, Strachan’s appearance will mark her second TV reality competition. While she is keen to embrace the challenge, her partner Chevallier does not share the same enthusiasm. “He hasn’t been very encouraging,” she said. “He just said that I’m mad. He’s South African so he doesn’t know Dancing on Ice. When I showed him all the accidents on YouTube, he thought I was really mad.”.
In the audience to support Strachan will be the couple’s son Oliver, 19, as well as her mum, brother, and stepdaughter. Living in South Africa, Nick does not currently have tickets, but the former Countryfile star said he might later attend depending on how far she gets.
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