Dancing On Ice star Matt Richardson recently announced he would be replacing Rufus Hound, who had tested positive for Covid and therefore had to pull out.
And ahead of his first appearance on the show on Saturday, he revealed he has already been injured during training.
Comedian Matt, 29, has been in training for the same amount of time the other celebrities taking part have, only off camera.
"I was injured," he told Lorraine Kelly on her show on Friday, and added that he blamed one of the judges.
"It was entirely Christopher Dean’s fault, I think even he knows that deep down," he joked.
"On the masterclass day, I went to skate and I was terrible and they said the problem was my limbs, which isn’t ideal.
"He gave me a pole to skate with to stop my arms moving and as I was skating with the pole, I caught the front of my blade and went over the front of the pole and because I was holdIng something I couldn’t put my hands out to stop myself so my face took all of the fall.
"I ended up being sent home with concussion and a black eye."
He explained he was nearly at the end of his stint of being a stand-in, ready in case one of the celebrities dropped out, and said it was "a bit of a surprise" to get the call.
"I have done exactly the same amount of training as everyone else, I was just doing it off-camera and not doing the show on a Sunday so I started in October, five days a week since then," he said.
When Lorraine showed a clip of him training and commented that he looked quite ‘Bambi-ish’ on the ice, he responded: "That was my second day on the ice, this was a few days after the masterclass.
"I think there are a lot of people that will think I haven’t [improved] so we will see."
He added that coming in as a replacement suits him better, saying: "I think actually for me it is the best thing that they have bounced me in, I haven’t had much time to think about it, I have just got to go for it without too much trepidation and hopefully it will go alright.
"Ultimately if it goes horribly, I am a comedian so it was very much on purpose!"
On this weekend’s debut routine, he revealed: "The routine is all done. I am yet to see my outfit but I am doing a paso doble so I think I am going to be a sparkly matador."
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