Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood has had surgery to rectify injuries caused by “wearing high heels all my life and dancing in them”
Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood has had surgery on both feet so he can keeeeeep dancing, as they say on the BBC competition.
The 59-year-old went under the knife to rectify issues caused from “wearing high heels all my life and dancing in them”. Craig had his toes “flattened” last month ready for his appearance in the Wizard of Oz, which starts at Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy Theatre on May 28. He said: “It is a dance injury. My little toes got all squashed up and I had a procedure to flatten them out. It is for dancing as I was getting terrible wounds from these nasty bunions, dear.”
Showing off his orthopaedic shoes, Craig told Ireland’s Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty: “Now I have to wear these cool shoes. I mean, they are pretty hideous, aren’t they? They are not a fashion statement although some people do think they are.
“Now I have teamed them with a flared trouser but I still can’t walk in them properly. This is why I had this done five weeks ago so I can slip my beautiful little new toes into a nice pair of stilettos to play the Wicked Witch.”
The star is no stranger to surgery – he had two hip operations in 2013 and 2018 for his severe osteoarthritis. Craig previously revealed he feared he would never dance again after his hips left him in “crippling” agony.
He added: “The specialist couldn’t understand how I’d even been walking. But I’m a professional dancer, and we are used to being in continuous pain. Basically, I had worn out both hip joints from dancing and ballet, and it was made worse by the fact that I have arthritis. My mother suffers from rheumatoid arthritis but I have osteoarthritis.”
After his first hip surgery, Craig was back on the Strictly panel the following day.