Nick Knowles was forced to miss last week’s Strictly Come Dancing after sustaining a knee injury, which came after he hurt his arm the week prior.
While the DIY SOS star isn’t yet sure whether he’ll be back on Saturday night, he shared a significant update during an interview on Wednesday.
The 62-year-old initially hurt his shoulder while changing a tyre, leaving him in a sling.
He managed to get the green light to dance the following weekend, but the injury meant he had barely any rehearsal time alongside partner Luba Mushtuk.
Thankfully, with only 16 hours of training time, he managed to impress the judges and viewers and got through to the following week.
Unfortunately, he went on to injure his knee before the latest show and had to pull out of the live show on medical advice.
Joining Janette Manrara on Strictly spin-off show It Takes Two, Knowles and Mushtuk discussed the latest on his injury.
“Nick, what a journey. Talk us through what happened on Friday,” Manrara requested.
“God, we had a great week learning the dance and we were doing the camera tech rehearsals – when the cameras see how the dance works,” he recalled.
“The very last step of the dance, I was late and I leapt to the position and the rest of me moved, my one leg stayed so… I hurt my knee.”
“But the dance was amazing,” Mushtuk quickly added, laughing.
“Well I was going to ask, how was it going before that?” former Strictly star Manrara inquired.
“The dance was really, really good,” Mushtuk detailed. “He actually surprised so many people with his Charleston.
“He was really, really enjoying himself, and actually it was such a good number.”
The couple explained Knowles had been given the green light to begin rehearsals again on Thursday, and to see how the injury goes from there.
As they talked about potentially adjusting the dance, Knowles admitted: “Do you know what? I’m getting sick and tired of my injuries!
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“Everyone else must be getting fed up with it as well. So I want to be able to do the dance well enough tomorrow that we focus on the dance and not any of the other things.”
Reflecting on his co-stars, he continued: “And if you think about it, everybody else has got things to deal with. Chris [McCausland] is doing amazing things every week.
“Punam [Krishan] is actually holding down a job as GP whilst training!”
The presenter concluded: “I mean everybody’s got their own mountains to climb.”
Elsewhere in the chat show, Manrara announced history-making news as the show introduced a new themed week for its 20th anniversary.
