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Tom Bryant & Katie Fitzpatrick

ITV Dancing On Ice horror as Bez smashes his head on the ice

Behind-the-scenes footage shows the Happy Mondays star Bez suffering a nasty fall during training for Dancing On Ice.

The Madchester icon slipped backwards and crashed to the ice, and the fall was so hard his helmet flew off.

As Bez lay stricken on the floor, his skating partner Angela Egan raced over to check he was ok and told him: "Give yourself a minute”, reports the Mirror.

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Host Phillip Schofield said about the moment: "You have a rink that is full of essentially blades and we know how dangerous they can be and how deeply they can cut and how sharp they are.

Bez's helmet went flying (ITV)

"I’ve just watched a video of Bez on his second day fall over backwards so hard that his helmet flew off.

“Dancing On Ice is really dangerous."

He added: "They really all risk everything for it.

Bez and his partner Angela Egan (ITV)

"We’ve seen in the past that people do get hurt and of course you want to avoid that at all cost. I think we will be wrapping Bez up in bubble wrap that’s for sure.”

'Freaky Dancer' Bez revealed earlier this week how he had never seen the hit ITV show before, which returns for a 14th series on Sunday.

He said: “I’d never watched it before but I watched a little bit of last year’s because I was thinking of auditioning.

"I had a quick look to see what it was all about."

But the Happy Mondays and Black Grape maraca player said he's excited to be learning a new skill.

"At the moment it’s like Bambi on ice rather than skating on ice," he joked.

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