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Nigel Harman has been forced to withdraw from Strictly Come Dancing impartial valid hours sooner than Saturday night’s dwell point out after suffering an ruin.
The 50-twelve months-earlier actor used to be making ready to perform a Charleston to Step in Time from Mary Poppins with Katya Jones, his legitimate accomplice, within the quarter-finals. Alternatively, he has had to pull out of the BBC dance contest after sustaining an ruin.
He omitted rehearsals on Saturday morning due to the ruin, bringing an stop to his strive to attain the final. The knowledge led Strictly Come Dancing fans to plead with producers to abolish this weekend’s elimination.
The Casualty actor’s exit leaves impartial valid Ellie Leach, Bobby Brazier, Layton Williams and Annabel Croft within the contest to gather the glitterball trophy.
Fans of the series keep in mind questioned whether or no longer Sunday’s planned elimination will mild glide forward, while some referred to as for Angela Scanlon, the Irish TV presenter, to return following her departure in November.
Others also questioned whether or no longer there would mild be a public vote after Harman’s exit or whether or no longer the date of the final, screech for Dec 16, will replace.
One fan wrote on social media: “Fully gutted for him. He used to be heading to the final for clear. Fast recovery Nigel.” One other said: “I’m so gutted, he used to be my favourite dancer.”
One other entreated producers to rethink the planned point out, announcing: “Without a doubt they need to stop an elimination subsequent week then. Two in a final doesn’t work.”
Harman, a extinct Eastenders celebrity, said at the initiating up of the series: “I’m amazed, enraged, and insecure to be doing Strictly. As an armchair fan of the purpose out I keep in mind watched in apprehension as of us keep in mind twirled and gyrated across the cowl. And now it’s my flip…..gulp!”
In November, Harman and Jones performed a steamy dance routine that eager writhing around on a mattress. The Russian legitimate dancer, 34, donned a silk negligee to dance the rhumba to Celine Dion’s energy ballad It’s All Coming Help To Me Now.
A BBC spokesman posted on social media attach X: “Unfortunately Nigel has sustained an ruin which draw he is unable to perform in tonight’s point out and has had to withdraw from Strictly.”
A put up by @bbcstrictly on Instagram added: “We would like Nigel a immediate recovery and they every will be very great omitted by our complete Strictly household.”
The departure of Harman and Jones is the 2nd shock exit of the series after Amanda Abbington and Giovanni Pernice withdrew on medical grounds.
Abbington later expressed her “deepest feel sorry about” at having to glide away, and while she did no longer point out her reasons for quitting, she said it used to be no longer a resolution she had reached “without impart or calmly”.