Bless Craig Revel Horwood. He may be as strict as they come at the judging table, but he’s definitely suffering for his art.
The Australian star is said to be battling through agonising pain each week just to get to his seat.
And it’s been reported Craig is in desperate need of a hip replacement operation, but is trying his best to last until the end of the Strictly series.
A source told The Sun that Craig is in “complete agony” but is battling through for the sake of the show.
The friend said: “He had a hip replaced in 2013 but now he needs the other one doing. Doing the smallest things causes him immense pain.
“He is fighting through it to see the rest of the series out.”
Not that viewers would have been able to tell – Craig has been acting with exemplary professionalism in recent weeks.
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And on Saturday night it was the viewers he had in stitches with his spot-on impression of fellow judge Bruno Tonioli – and he got so into it, he ended up on the floor!
Craig has spoken about his first hip replacement, blaming it on a lifetime of dance.
He said: “I wore out both joints from dancing and ballet and it was made worse by arthritis.”
Craig isn’t the only Strictly judge to have had surgery on his hip, as ex-ballerina Darcey Bussell, 48, had hers worked on in 2015.
She told The Telegraph at the time: “Ever since I’ve given up dancing, every physiotherapist or Pilates teacher has said you have to keep moving. If I don’t I’ll have a hundred times more injuries because you get weak areas on your body.”
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And poor Craig has got a good few weeks to get through yet – Brian Conley was just the fourth contestant to be voted off the show this weekend.
With 11 weeks still to go, it’s going to be a long road to the final – so you may want to keep those over-exuberant impressions of Bruno to a minimum, Craig!