CORONATION Street star Sam Aston suffered a nasty injury in rehearsals just hours before tonight’s live show.
The soap favourite came out all guns blazing for a lively routine to The Who classic Baba O’Riley.
There were a number of lifts and some serious attack, which went down well with the audience despite a stumble midway through.
However, after the routine, which scored 29 points, host Stephen Mulhern revealed Sam was far from 100 percent.
He explained that the actor had an accident in rehearsals that saw his shoulder dislocate and it needed help to pop back in.
One viewer wrote: “Sam is brilliant! Despite the stumble and the accident before tonight’s performance he still carried and didn’t give up. Well done Sam.”
Another said: “Sam did stumble but he did well to skate with a bad shoulder, hopefully he can recover and gain his confidence back.”
Prior to the routine, Sam caught up with former co-star Malcolm Hebden, who played Norris Coles.
The two friends talked inside Roy’s Rolls and Sam admitted Malcolm was like a father figure when he first started working on the soap as a young boy.
Sam wasn’t the only one in the wars.
Pro skater Vanessa Bauer was forced to withdraw altogether today after suffering an injury in training.
In a video, Vanessa said: “I’m here today with rather upsetting news. I am unfortunately not going to be able to continue on Dancing on Ice with Chris.
“That’s really upsetting for me. I have trained Chris since October last year and it is always such an amazing achievement for myself to see someone else progress so much in a skill they’ve never done before.
“So it’s been really rewarding for me to watch this whole journey for Chris [and] the way he’s got better week since October and also since the live shows started.
She then went on to explain what had happened and how she was having to put her health first.
Vanessa said: “I unfortunately had a little accident backstage last week on Dancing on Ice just before the live show on Sunday.
“And I didn’t realise how bad it was then, but we did an MRI and it turned out that I have a completely torn ligament, grade three sprain injury and a major grade two sprain injury.
“I shouldn’t be skating on an injury like that and so I’m taking all of the advice from the medical professionals here, I am in very good hands.”
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