Strictly Come Dancing star Alex Kingston carried out with a “dislocated rib” this weekend.
This 12 months’s sequence of the BBC One Latin and ballroom contest has been plagued with a number of stars being pressured to tug out, together with La Voix, who introduced her departure from the present this weekend resulting from harm.
Now, it has been revealed that former Physician Who star Alex, 62, has been soldiering on with an harm.
Her daughter, Salome Violetta Haertel, 24, commented on a snap of Alex and her skilled dance associate Johannes Rabede’s couple’s selection dance routine at Blackpool: “So so proud!!! Slayed on the dance flooring, dislocated rib and all!!!”
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star La Voix felt a “niggle in my foot” while performing the foxtrot on the November 15 dwell present, and it quickly bought worse, leading to her {and professional} dance associate Aljaz Skorjanec, 35, pulling out of performing their Samba on the iconic Blackpool Tower Ballroom on Saturday (22.11.25) evening.
The pair is not going to be returning to the present, it was confirmed firstly of Saturday evening’s dwell present.
Host Tess Daly, 56, advised viewers: “We will affirm she has very sadly needed to withdraw from the competitors.”
The drag queen – actual title Christopher Dennis – shared her heartbreak about having to completely pull out of Strictly Come Dancing on her Instagram account following the announcement.
In an announcement, she stated: “I am completely devastated to be withdrawing from Strictly Come Dancing. This is not the glittering exit I ever imagined, and it breaks my coronary heart to really feel like I am letting individuals down.
“My spirit wished to maintain dancing, however my foot has different concepts!”
La Voix, 45, went on to thank Strictly Come Dancing’s viewers for supporting her and Aljaz every week.
She added: “Thanks for each cheer, each vote, and each sparkle of assist – it is meant the world to me.”
The star added that she’s going to at all times be glad about the expertise.
La Voix concluded her assertion with: “This is not the ending I imagined, however I will cherish this without end.”
After confirming that the performer is not going to be returning to Strictly Come Dancing, Tess additionally revealed {that a} celeb and their skilled dance associate wouldn’t depart the competitors this week.
The six remaining {couples} – together with Emmerdale star Lewis Cope, 30, and Katya Jones, 36, who topped this week’s leaderboard with an ideal 40 factors, and EastEnders actress Balvinder Sopal, 46, and Julian Caillon, 30, who got here final with 33 factors – undergo to the November 29 dwell present.
Scores from the judges – Craig Revel Horwood, 60, Motsi Mabuse, 44, Shirley Ballas, 65, and 59 12 months outdated Anton Du Beke – in addition to viewers’ votes might be carried over, and mixed with subsequent week’s factors and votes.
Two {couples} with the fewest votes will participate within the dreaded dance-off, the place they may battle it out for considered one of them to remain within the competitors in the course of the November 30 outcomes present.
La Voix’s exit got here after former Love Island star Dani Dyer, 29, give up the competitors earlier than the primary dwell present on September 27 after she fractured her ankle in rehearsals.
And Neighbours actor Stefan Dennis, 67, pulled out of Strictly Come Dancing on October 20 as a result of he tore a calf muscle.
Strictly Come Dancing returns on Sunday (23.11.25) evening at 7.15pm on BBC One and iPlayer.
