BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Chris McCausland reveals injury before dropping 'poor Dianne Buswell'

Chris McCausland has revealed he was in the wars during his last performance in the Strictly Come Dancing ballroom over an injury which had early resulted in him accidentally "dropping" professional partner Dianne Buswell.

The 47-year-old comedian has been wowing fans in the BBC One dance contest and last weekend, he and Dianne performed a colourful and energetic Salsa to Down Under by Men At Work.

Afterwards, Dianne gushed that she was never more proud of Chris as she fought back tears before they were awarded 30 points out of a possible 40 and they later made it through to week five of the competition following the public vote.

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But Chris revealed that he was in the wars during rehearsals for last Saturday's (12.10.24) show which resulted in him accidentally "dropping" professional partner Dianne Buswell.

But Chris has now revealed he sprained his wrist before last weekend's live show. Writing in his weekly Strictly diary for The Telegraph, he said: "As sprains go, it was a mild one and I was deemed fit to dance by the 'Strictly' physio, but I needed to wear a wrist support.

"On the Thursday I did actually forget to put this wrist support on an ended up dropping poor Dianne in a rather unflattering heap on the floor. Sorry Dianne."

Chris' preparation was made even harder as he was suffering from a "stinking cold", which he made clear to his dance partner. The star – who is the first-ever blind contestant on the series – wrote: "Last week I had a cold, a horrible stinking cold.

"I mentioned this several times to Dianne. Some would call that moaning. Dianne would call that moaning. Dianne did call that moaning, but I would simply say that I was keeping her up-to-date with what my body was telling me – and my body was moaning."

Chris continued: "I was feeling particularly bunged up on Friday and Saturday, and I performed all of our run-throughs and the live show struggling to breathe through my nose.

"If you were watching and you thought that I needed to close my big flappy mouth, let me assure you that if I had done so, I would have suffocated halfway through and Dianne would have had to drag me through the rest of it by my one good wrist."