jodie kiddStrictly Come Dancing star Jodie Kidd has become the latest celebrity contestant to be injured on the show.

Earlier in the series GMTV Today presenter Andrew Castle revealed he and partner Ola Jordan both broke toes in rehearsals, and now Jodie has fractured a rib.

According to the Daily Mail, the former supermodel injured herself while practising for last week’s American Smooth performance but is continuing with the show, just taking anti-inflammatory pills to ease the pain.

A source from the programme told the newspaper: “[The American Smooth] was a very challenging routine with a couple of tough lifts.

“During one of them, [her partner Ian Waite] held Jodie a little too tightly and fractured her rib. At the time she didn’t realise how bad the injury was but as the week wore on she felt very sore and short of breath. Her chest was very tight and she decided to have things checked out.

“She had an X-ray, which found a hairline fracture to one of her left ribs. Jodie was upset because she didn’t want to have to pull out of the show. She insisted on doing
the dance last Saturday. She was thrown around and no one knew she was in huge amounts of pain.

“Ian is feeling guilty - he did not realise his own strength. He has been going to physio with her and doing everything he can to make her comfortable while rehearsing.”

Last night the couple performed a Paso Doble and scored 26 points, which put them sixth out of the 11 remaining pairs. Swimmer Mark Foster and partner Hayley Holt were eliminated after scoring just 16 points.

  • See Jodie and Ian’s Paso Doble from Saturday