A finalist of the BBC dance show Strictly Come Dancing was rushed to hospital after being run over by a car in an accident that ‘could have been fatal’ if it weren’t for one thing
A Strictly Come Dancing finalist was rushed to hospital after being in a car accident that ‘could have been fatal’. John Waite, a Great British Bake Off winner who reached the final of the dance show in 2021, shared via Instagram the one thing that meant the accident wasn’t worse.
He revealed on Wednesday (7 January) that. he was run over by a car the night before. He wrote: “Last night I got run over (seriously). I rolled up the bonnet damaging it and the windscreen, before splatting onto the road and crawling to the pavement where some angel of a human threw his coat around me and waited with me for an ambulance.”
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John added that the doctors told him that the accident “could have been fatal” if he wasn’t so muscled. “The doctors said ‘thank god you’re 16 stone of muscle because it could have been fatal’.
“Moral of the story – build strong muscle and core strength, and don’t wear black while crossing the road in the dark when an idiot comes speeding without looking…”
The baker also assured fans that he was alright. “I’ve been scanned and poked and prodded and I’m ok,” he wrote. “Still gay though.” He returned to Instagram later that day to clarify that he meant “speeding” in a figurative sense.
“For the avoidance of doubt, in my last post I said ‘speeding’. I used the term figuratively rather than literally,” John said. “I meant: it was sudden and shocking.
He added: “I don’t know what speed the driver was going. But it was enough to skittle me up onto his windscreen and down onto the floor.”
John made history when he competed on the 19th series of Strictly Come Dancing. When he was partnered with fan favourite pro Johannes Radebe, they became the show’s first male same-sex couple. Together, they came second on the show, losing out to Rose Ayling-Ellis and Giovanni Pernice.
His stint on Strictly came nine years after he shot to fame on the Great British Bake Off. In 2012, John competed on the third series of the show and eventually won the show, despite suffering a major injury to his finger during the sixth episode.
Away from TV, John continues to bake and lives in Leeds with his husband Paul Atkins. The pair got engaged in 2017 but only tied the knot seven years later in a ceremony in New York.
Speaking to Gay Times, John said his relationship with his husband is what he’s most proud of. “The thing that I’m most proud of in my life, without a shadow of a doubt, is the fact that my husband and I have been through 18 years of togetherness.”
Source: Mirror
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