ITV Dancing On Ice's Connor Ball gives injury update after horror pre-show fall

07.02.2022 - 11:07 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Connor Ball had a Dancing On Ice horror on Sunday night after a painful fall just before the show went live put back his performance.

The Vamps star and partner Alexandra Shauman were due to open the show with the Charleston-inspired routine to Out Of Our Heads by Take That for the competition's 'dance week'.

However, this wasn't revealed until later, after they performed, when Connor was seen having to compress an injury on his chin.

The musician revealed he had taken a fall before the live broadcast, cutting open his chin.

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He was left clutching a tissue to the injury as blood leaked onto his collar after the cut reopened during his routine.

Explaining what had happened, guest host Stephen Mulhern said: "I don’t know if you can see this but Dancing On Ice is completely live and Connor was meant to open the entire show, but had an accident before the show.

"He had stitches before the show so he couldn’t go on first and they have now opened up."

Connor added: "I was a bit stressed about the spin so I kept trying to perfect the spin and I slipped out and smacked my face on the ice."

Judge and legendary skater Christopher Dean tried to show a scar on his own chin and told Connor: "Welcome to the club. We all get it eventually. That means you’re becoming a professional skater."

The 25-year-old still earned himself an impressive 33 points out of 40 for his latest performance on the ITV skating competition and made it safely through to next weekend's show.

And Connor has given an update.

Shortly after the show, Connor uploaded a video of himself to the social media platform showing his nasty-looking injury.

"Yo, what's up everyone?" he