Strictly Come Dancing star Jody Cundy and his pro partner Jowita Przystal have been given strict new rules to follow in training follow the celebrity Paralympian being taken to hospital.
Last week Jody ended up in hospital after picking up an infection in training and he admitted that he was pushing through the pain to try to train for longer than normal.
Now, following his trip to A&E, Jowita has been handed strict new rules by BBC bosses about what she is allowed to do with Jody during training and how long they can train for at a time in order to ensure there’s no repeat of his agonising health issue.
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Jody told Strictly It Takes Two host that the UP themed routine on Saturday did go according to plan, despite missing two days of training after being put in hospital.
He told Janette: “We pretty much did the routine as we planned, so everything we planned to do in the routine, all the lifts all the bits and pieces.”
Jowita added: “I think the love for that movie and the feeling there was a possibility not to perform. We thought, okay the universe has allowed us to dance.”
Janette then asked: “Can I just ask a little bit more about the prosthetic? How does it work, how exactly did it cause an infection?”
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Jody said: “Okay so I have a carbon fibre leg. Inside that I have a silicon liner. I have an alcohol spray that I cover the leg in, and then I push it into the leg, all the air goes out this one way valve and then it’s attached with suction.
“Because it’s a silicon liner it doesn’t breathe. For my training sessions at home for riding and stuff, three hours is the longest training session I ever do.
“We’re not really riding for the whole three hours….dancing we’ve been doing seven hours straight. And I’ve been in the leg the whole time.
“It’s weight bearing as well. I’ve just been sweating in the leg, not been looking after it, then it’s got a little bit sore and then that’s got infected.”
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Jowita added: “Jody taught me that nothing can stop him basically. I saw him in pain on Friday, I saw him in pain. But he was like the swelling went down, I’m gonna put my leg back on and I’m gonna dance with you.
“This showed me he’s a true champion and that’s why I said on Saturday night no matter what happens if we do it right or wrong, for me, you’re me hero because you put on all that effort and you go for it.”
The pair scored an all time low of 20/40 for their dance, and the judges didn’t appear to take it easy on them despite Jody’s battles.
But despite coming bottom of the leaderboard, the public backed them and they avoided the dance-off.
This coming week, the pair will dance a Salsa this weekend called Samba de Janeiro.
But Jowita and Jody have admitted that they have been forced to change the way they train following Jody’s hospital trip.
Janette asked the pair: “After what happened last week have you adapted the training for the two of you?”
Jody said: “We make sure I take the leg off every couple of hours, clean it, make sure everything is all right.
Jowita said: “We do more breaks. So I am nurse Jowita. We do 15 minutes of cleaning. I say ‘now is the time to take off the leg’. So we do that, we clean, we make sure everything is fine. If anything is bothering around his knee, okay stop, nurse Jowita to the rescue.
“I’m like okay we need to fix it. We’re taking care of it. So far so good.”
Strictly It Takes Two returns on Thursday on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer at 6.30pm.
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