One of many stars of this yr’s Strictly Come Dancing has revealed they left their professional associate with a bloody nostril after an accident whereas rehearsing. Former Lioness Karen Carney admitted Carlos Gu had felt the total drive of her elbow as they practiced their present stopping Jive to Blondie’s One Approach Or One other which they carried out on the primary reside present of this collection.

Talking on her Lengthy Story Brief podcast the soccer pundit admitted: “The rehearsals went horrendous, it was simply the day earlier than the primary reside present. There’s a bit the place I did a spin, and as I’ve spun and I’ve elbowed him within the nostril and it bled.” Confessing she felt responsible she stated Carlos was “unimaginable” afterwards and tried to hold on however she knew there was no “getting back from that!” She defined she was “actually upset” she had injured him including, “clearly Carlos is sort of valuable isn’t he? He’s a little bit sweetheart, so I’m additional devastated,” she stated.

The pair got here again from that to offer a mind-blowing efficiency which noticed them high the leaderboard with 31 out of 40 factors from the judges, Shirley Ballas, Motsi Mabuse, Craig Revel-Horwood and Anton Du Beke.

Karen’s odds of profitable slashed dramatically following the dance but it surely later transpired that, not like lots of the contestants, she did not begin her coaching fully from scratch for the BBC Saturday evening present.

The star revealed her dance background in an previous interview with the FA – even crediting it with enhancing her soccer abilities. “I loved soccer once I was a child and had a great deal of kickabouts however I did not be part of my first membership till I used to be 11.

“Till then, it was all about dancing for me,” she stated. “We did a great deal of completely different routines and genres of music; road dancing, hip-hop, disco, rock ‘n’ roll, gradual dancing, workforce dances.”