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'
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Your support makes all the difference.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.
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