Jaime Winstone has confirmed she will return to Strictly Come Dancing this weekend, saying she feels “so grateful and privileged” to be back.
The 41-year-old actress and her partner Carlos Gu missed last week’s episode of the BBC dancing competition after she suffered a torn abdominal muscle.
Return to the rehearsal room
Winstone, who previously said she was “devastated” at being unable to dance, shared a video on Instagram on Tuesday revealing that she and Gu have returned to the rehearsal room.
“Hey guys! We are back,” she told her followers. “It’s been a hard week and it’s been very frustrating not being able to dance and join everyone else in the ballroom.
“I wanted to let you know that we are intending to dance. We have been given the all-clear under certain rules by the doctors. We’ve just done our wonderful Charleston with amazing choreographers and Carlos.”
Working around the injury
Winstone explained that she is having to “work around the injury”, adding: “We are just feeling so grateful and privileged to be back here and to be able to be back in the ballroom on this Saturday.
“We just want to thank everybody for your amazing support, all the love and all the messages that I received about my injury. It’s been very beautiful and quite overwhelming.”
She said she is “working extra hard now” as she plans her return, and is “slowly working up to hopefully an amazing performance on Saturday”.
Support from fellow contestants
“We are so happy to be back in the rehearsal room,” she wrote in the caption. “We want to thank everyone for the most amazing show of love and support during this scary unknowing time. Huge love from this very grateful pair.”
Her comments were flooded with messages from well-wishers, including fellow contestant Lacey Turner, who said: “Yehhhhhh baby!” Australian singer Delta Goodrem, who recently received a bye due to an injury, wrote: “You’ve got this!”
Winstone is known for appearing in films including Made In Dagenham, Bullet Boy and Tomb Raider. She has also appeared in several shows including Dead Set, Poirot and the BBC TV movie Babs, where she played the late Dame Barbara Windsor.
Strictly Come Dancing continues at 6.25pm Saturday on BBC One.
