Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood has revealed he was stabbed during a robbery while on holiday in Madrid, Spain. The incident occurred as he was returning from a club in the early hours, and his jewellery was stolen.
Attack details
Speaking on his Judgemental podcast, which he co-hosts with fellow judge Anton Du Beke, Craig recounted the ordeal. He said: “I went on holiday in Madrid and got stabbed, that was nice, and it was stinking hot. My jewellery was stolen as well, they ripped my necklace off my neck and gave me a big burn mark... It was a razor blade… I was slashed… [in the] stomach coming home from a club, it was probably two o’clock in the morning, but that’s sort of normal, you go out for dinner at 10 or 11.”
Strip-search on return
Craig, who was dancing at the Lido in Paris at the time, had crossed the border to Spain for a holiday that “ended up pretty bad”. He added: “And then when I got back, I got strip-searched. I hadn’t shaved, so I did look a bit of a wreck, I’d been stabbed, I had burn marks all around my neck from where I was, like, attacked. And then the French strip-searched me down to literally nothing…. they were looking for drugs.”
Kenya trip mishap
Craig also shared a disastrous trip to Kenya, where he discovered his hotel had burned down. He said: “I remember flying to Mombasa in Kenya. It was all fabulous, I thought, ‘oh yeah, I’m going on safari, that’s going to be nice’. Got out there, arrived, all the hotels and everything were paid for in advance, they’re giving us a like a bus from the airport to the hotel, and they said on arrival, ‘your hotel has burnt down’. The hotel was burnt down, and no one bothered to tell us until we actually arrived. Anyway, they found us another one, they just shoved us in there, [and] I went on, you know, a very romantic cruise down the River Nile.”
