Dancing On Ice’s Melody Thornton suffers brutal jaw injury

Poor Melody!

Published 2nd Feb 2019

Former Pussycat Doll Melody Thornton has become the latest Dancing On Ice contestant to get injured after a horrific fall in rehearsals left her with a bruised and swollen jaw.

Melody, who is partnered with professional skater Alex Demetriou on the show, showed off her injury on her Instagram story and revealed that the fall left her unable to use her arms.

"Just at the studio. Here's my chin, it's swollen - there's some bruising but I can cover it with make-up today,” she told her followers.

Sharing photos of her chin, which looked VERY painful, she added: "I can't hardly use my arms... which is great because who needs arms when you're ice skating!"

Despite her injury, Melody vowed to soldier on.

She said, "I'm just working on staying positive and gotta find a way to get through this performance on Sunday.

"If I look good, I don't feel good - just so you know."

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Poor Melody isn’t the only Dancing On Ice contestant dealing with injuries this week. Firstly there was THAT Gemma Collins fall during the live show, which left her nursing a knee injury, and then Wes Nelson revealed he was suffering after a ‘really bad fall’ in training.

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