During the semi-final round of competition last night on Dancing with the Stars, opera singer Katherine Jenkins suffered a painful back spasm near the end of her second routine of the evening.
Their Salsa began with dance pro Mark Ballas, in the role of flute playing snake charmer, skillfully coaxing his belly dancing partner from a large woven basket.
It was in their final move that things took a bad turn. He bent her backwards and cartwheeled over the top of her. Instead of springing upright as planned, she was unable to flex back and he had to help her to her feet.
Jenkins immediately covered her face with her hands and sobbed. Ballas wasn’t sure if she could walk and kept repeating “I’ve got you” as he helped her over to face the judges.
When asked by Tom Bergeron to tell viewers what had happened she simply shook her head, unable to articulate what had occurred.
The couple had hoped for 10’s but because of the misstep at the end they picked up three solid 9’s to add to their Quickstep score of 29. Their combined score of 56 puts them at the bottom of the leaderboard:
Jenkins hit Twitter to report on her injury: “Thank you for all your concerned tweets… I’m with the Doctor, he says it was a reflectorical spasm in my lower back.”
Check out video of their Salsa below:
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