Nick Knowles to miss Strictly due to injury

Nick Knowles has pulled retired of this week's Strictly Come Dancing amusement aft sustaining an injury.

The DIY SOS presenter and his spouse Luba Mushtuk volition not execute connected Saturday night's show, which is movie week.

The brace were owed to execute the charleston to Rain On The Roof from the movie Paddington 2.

A station connected Strictly's Instagram page said that Knowles, 62, had sustained an wounded during rehearsals and volition not creation this weekend.

"As per the rules of the competition, Nick and Luba volition person a bye done to adjacent week erstwhile helium is hopefully capable to creation again.

"Everyone astatine Strictly Come Dancing wishes Nick a speedy recovery."

No further details astir the wounded person been disclosed.

Two days aft this series' archetypal unrecorded show, Knowles revealed helium had injured his limb and enarthrosis portion changing a tyre, but was fixed aesculapian clearance to execute past weekend.

He told Strictly spin-off show, It Takes Two, that helium had suffered the "painful" wounded connected the mode to a household enactment connected 22 September to observe his day and present had to deterioration a sling.

In a video posted to X, Knowles admitted it had been a "tough week", but helium was "very excited" to creation and his enarthrosis was "getting stronger each day".

On past weekend's programme, caput justice Shirley Ballas said that what Knowles and Mushtuk had achieved with lone 16 hours of rehearsal clip was "absolutely amazing", aft they performed an American creaseless to Blur's Parklife.