Fleur East has toenail ‘cut off’ by Strictly partner

Strictly Come Dancing contestant Fleur East and Vito Coppola have been busy preparing for week eight of the BBC competition as they set their sights on Blackpool. They took some time out of their hectic schedule to appear on Thursday’s instalment of BBC Breakfast where Fleur revealed Vito had to rip her toenail off. Fleur admitted she had achy feet and muscles from dance rehearsals as she was speaking to BBC hosts Victoria Valentine and Ben Thompson. She then opened up about losing a big toenail on the BBC news programme and detailed the gruesome injury. The radio presenter explained: “My big toenail is officially off and Vito here helped cut it off for me.”He helped with my rite of passage to become a proper dancer.” READ MORE: The true story behind David Stirling’s injury in SAS Rogue Heroes Fleur East opened up on her gruesome injury (Image: BBC) Fleur and Vito will perform a Samba this weekend (Image: BBC) The Strictly star detailed her injury on BBC Breakfast (Image: BBC) The Strictly Come Dancing line-up for 2022 (Image: EXPRESS)The duo have been in the dance-off twice which Fleur described as “horrid”. She said: “It’s not a nice feeling at all and I think being so anxious and having to perform again, and then lift our spirits to get into the next week I think has made us a lot closer.” Vito agreed and called Fleur as an amazing dancer who is a “perfectionist”. He said: “Sometimes we forget to eat lunch and sometimes she starts the day at 4am with the radio and then she comes here. DON’T MISS…Strictly Come Dancing fans fear for Ellie Taylor over Charleston [LATEST]Strictly’s Giovanni Pernice angrily slams Ellie Simmonds’ show exit [INSIGHT]It Takes Two’s Janette Manrara’s quiet life with Aljaz Skornajec [EXPLAINER]”If I don’t say, ‘Go home you have got the steps,’ we stay here until about 10pm or 10.30pm.” This weekend the pair will be performing a Samba to Hot Hot Hot by Arrow.Just nine couples are remaining in the competition after Paralympian Ellie Simmonds was eliminated on Sunday with Nikita Kuzmin. Addressing her exit on It Takes Two, Ellie said: “It was really really horrible, we were so shocked and it’s just not nice. We didn’t want anyone to be in the dance-off.”