James Jordan has revealed the extent of his injuries.
James Jordan
The 40-year-old dancer was forced to take some time out after suffering a hernia and he's also revealed that his shoulder injury and arthritis in his hips and knees have been causing him a lot of pain.
James had been worried he'd have to pull out of the skating show before the semi-finals this weekend, but a spokesperson for the programme confirmed last week that he was back on the ice with professional partner Alexandra Schauman.
Speaking to The Sun newspaper Bizarre TV column, he said: "I've got a torn rotator cuff (a shoulder injury), tennis elbow, arthritis in both my hips, my knees have gone, I've got lower back pain and my hernia."
The former 'Strictly Come Dancing' star has also revealed that he was binging on pizzas to keep the weight on after he shed 15 kilos from the intense training, and admitted it's difficult not to lose weight skating all the time.
He said: "I lost 15 kilos, but that was from when the moment I knew I was going to do the show.
"Every night at the hotel I was having pepperoni and jalapeno pizzas and I've just kept burning it off. It's hard to keep the weight on."
Despite having to take some time off the ice, the programme's Associate Creative Director, Dan Whiston, believes the injury won't have knocked James too far off track as he's predicted either he or Wes Nelson - who is partnered with Vanessa Bauer - will earn a perfect score on Sunday (03.03.19).
He said recently: "Wes and James have come close to full 10s in previous weeks and I think it could be this week that one of those two can get a full set of 10s.
"I'd love to see the full 10s come out this weekend. I think if people skate clean, they'll be well deserved, but the beauty about our show is that you never know what you're going to get until the night.
"You never really know you can't call it, anything can go wrong it's slippy stuff out there. Is there any guarantees of 10s, no? Is it highly likely? Definitely."
James - who underwent an operation on his hernia in 2017 - had previously admitted he had found it "hard" to train following his injury, with fellow skaters said to have been "terrified" when they saw him "double over in agony".
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