Strictly Come Dancing’s Ola Jordan defends naked calendar: ‘I didn’t even know if I’d be able to walk again after massive injury’

'There's too much focus on the negative rather than the positive'

(Ola Jordan)

Strictly Come Dancing professional Ola Jordan has defended her nude calendar over claims that is too sexualised given her role in a “family show”, saying it is a celebration of her return to health.

"I had a massive injury last year and I worked really hard to come back to the show,” she told the Mirror.

"There's too much focus on the negative rather than the positive. I didn't event know if I'd be able to work again.”

Jordan badly injured her knee during Channel 4 ski competition The Jump, and initially feared she would never be able to walk again, let alone dance.

 

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Rumours had circulated that the BBC were unhappy about the calendar, which sees her in a variety of tiny outfits, but she dismissed them as “rubbish”.

Always outspoke Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood previously frowned: "Strictly is a family show, and then you have got Ola pouring milk all over herself with her legs spread [2015 calender pic, above]."

Ola’s husband and fellow Strictly dancer James Jordan rushed to her defence: “How can he say it's not okay to sell a sexy Christmas calendar, but it's okay to sell his own book telling the world he was a drunken rent boy and call it All Balls and Glitter?

"We have bills to pay, and I can assure you, the professional dancers are paid a lot less than the panel for working flipping hard," he added.