Strictly Come Dancing's Jaime Winstone shares major return update after injury

Strictly Come Dancing’s Jaime Winstone has confirmed she will return to the dancefloor on Saturday (14 November).

The actress was sidelined for week seven of the hit BBC dance show after tearing an abdominal muscle and taking medical advice to rest.

But in a video she posted on Instagram today (10 November), Winstone confirmed she is back fit and ready to compete this weekend.

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Alongside dance partner Carlos Gu, the former Masked Singer contestant beamed with excitement before giving fans an update. “Hey guys, we are back in the rehearsal room today,” Winstone said.

“It’s been a hard week, and it's been very frustrating not being able to dance and join everyone else in the ballroom - especially you [Gu], who I missed so much. I really did. I missed your voice; I missed everything."

Gu added: That’s [what happened with] the break; it made us miss each other even more.”

Winstone continued: “We just wanted to let you know we are intending to dance [this Saturday]. We have been given the all-clear under certain rules by the doctors.

“We just did our wonderful Charleston with the amazing choreographers and Carlos, on how to work around the injury. We are feeling so grateful and privileged to be back here and to be able to be back in the ballroom this Saturday."

She then shouted out her followers for their well wishes. The caption to the post read: “We want to thank everyone for the most amazing show of love and support during this scary [unknown] time. Huge love from this very grateful pair - Jaime & Carlos.”

During Winstone’s absence, Bethany Antonia and her partner Nancy Xu were eliminated, after judge Shirley Ballas opted to save Cach Mercer and Maddie Ingoldsby in the dance-off.

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Winstone and Gu will now have to increase their level upon their return to Strictly Come Dancing. During their last appearance on Halloween Week, they were saved in the dance-off for the third time in the competition.

Will they do enough to impress both the judges and the public to earn a spot in week nine?

Strictly Come Dancing airs on BBC One and streams on BBC iPlayer.

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