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Professional dancer Ola Jordan is set to return to Strictly Come Dancing after recovering from a serious leg injury.
The Polish-born star was hurt in December during rehearsals for Channel 4's series The Jump.
The accident left the 32-year-old in a leg cast and on crutches.
Ola Jordan
The ballroom beauty, who lives in Maidstone, had to pull out of the ski-themed show and was also unable to perform on Strictly.
After undergoing surgery for the injury, Ola is now fully recovered and ready to step onto the dance floor once again.
Her husband, James Jordan, who also danced on the BBC show for a number of years, tweeted the happy news this morning.
James and Ola Jordan
The 36-year-old, who is originally from Medway, told his followers: "Wow what an amazing week. So many exciting new projects coming up and @The_OlaJordan will be ready for strictly."
Ola became a household name from her role as a professional on Strictly Come Dancing, which she won in 2009 with celebrity partner Chris Hollins.
The couple previously lived near West Malling.
The new series of Strictly Come Dancing will begin in September.
just seen this
Professional dancer Ola Jordan is set to return to Strictly Come Dancing after recovering from a serious leg injury.
The Polish-born star was hurt in December during rehearsals for Channel 4's series The Jump.
The accident left the 32-year-old in a leg cast and on crutches.
Ola Jordan
The ballroom beauty, who lives in Maidstone, had to pull out of the ski-themed show and was also unable to perform on Strictly.
After undergoing surgery for the injury, Ola is now fully recovered and ready to step onto the dance floor once again.
Her husband, James Jordan, who also danced on the BBC show for a number of years, tweeted the happy news this morning.
James and Ola Jordan
The 36-year-old, who is originally from Medway, told his followers: "Wow what an amazing week. So many exciting new projects coming up and @The_OlaJordan will be ready for strictly."
Ola became a household name from her role as a professional on Strictly Come Dancing, which she won in 2009 with celebrity partner Chris Hollins.
The couple previously lived near West Malling.
The new series of Strictly Come Dancing will begin in September.
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She effectively "walked out" mid series and was unable to take part, although she was featured in the pre-recorded Group dance with Take That in the Grand Final.
The fact that her absence was completely ignored on screen, speaks volumes.
I doubt that Ola got the green light from Strictly at this point if at all, it is a good 2 months away and it would seem strange that she would get such a special treatment after all that happened last series.
Ola's unhappiness last year had to do with the fact that Steve was basically afraid to show up for rehearsals with her, things got really bad when Steve asked the producers to do the tour with a different pro, which the producers turned down.
Why would the producers say no to this when loads of other people have danced on tour with different pros? Especially when they seemed to be having trouble getting decent celebs to sign up this year? (Not accusing you of lying BTW, just curious
I had also read that the Pros have already had meetings with the producers so am surprised that James would tweet this if there was no truth in the comment.
I really like Ola and hope she does come back - and as for her getting a duffer, well I suppose she would still be paid for the series, get to do the group dances and have less of a hectic schedule than if she had a contender -
Just my observation, but IMO Ola's unhappiness went beyond whatever happened between her and Steve. I saw it there from the beginning before she was even paired with him and virtually the whole series it looked like she was just going through the motions. Also, as Ellie pointed out she was quite outspoken in the press about her dissatisfactions with strictly. At the end of the day she had a choice, she didn't have to go back to strictly if she was unhappy about the way things were run - it was obvious she couldn't hide her anger and hurt at James' being dropped so if she had that much of a low opinion of her employers then she shouldn't have accepted the offer to come back. I've enjoyed both the Jordans on the show in the past, but if it gets to the point where there are clashes with producers and obvious dissatisfactions, then imo it's time for even long standing pros to either leave voluntarily or be let go and new recruits to be brought in.
Anton wasn't available?http://www.virginmedia.com/tvradio/news/story/2014/11/25/steve-backshall-wanted-anton/
Seaside lady got it right. James only said Ola would be ready for Strictly. Even that has to be an assumption as although she is healing fast, she would still have to get to full dance fitness without any setbacks.
I think Ola did well last year. IMO it was one of her best years for choreography as she had to choreograph a Tango to a Jive tune, a Paso to a Rumba tune, an AS to a Tango tune etc. and I think she did that very well, while taking into account Steve's dancing ability and his bolted in place left ankle.
How she got injured will count against her - as will the timescale for getting dance fit.
I'm not expecting Ola to be back, but I think she would do a good job (as always), if she is in the next series.
Yes, I'd agree with that.
As I've said before, people I know who don't venture near forums but have watched every Strictly still don't know the names of all the pro dancers ('him with the bum' being a favourite). Ola and James rely on the name recognition from Strictly for outside ventures and calendar sales and James for the tweeting. With the injury, this has been a bit of a fallow year so they need the association to get the momentum back. In terms of branching out into another media career it will be almost like starting from scratch.
I agree that the injury put their plans on hold but Ola got quite a lot of media coverage for her injury though. I didn't see it but she was even interviewed on Daybreak about it.
As far as I could tell, Ola has always got more media cover for Strictly than any other pro - by quite a margin.
That would be a plus point for bringing her back.
It's a two way street - without the publicity from Strictly, the Jordan's will find it more difficult to make a living.
But please can we get the, oft raised, subject of James & Ola 'needing the money.....' into some kind of proportion. Yes, Strictly has made the pro dancers into household names, and allowed a few to have their own shows, etc., but professional dancers real earnings come from coaching other dancers, when they can earn as much in one full days' coaching as a huge number of other people can hope to see for a whole week. Then there are huge gains to be made by travelling abroad, especially to the likes of Hong Kong and Japan.
However, to get to that position, mostly they need to have proved their worth on the competitive floor, it doesn't come from dancing with beginners in a tv show. Even without Strictly, James & Ola were well known in the dance world, and their expertise, both as dancers and coaches respected, and sought after, by dancers wanting lessons from them.
Did they? I thought this year's tour had a really good line-up, certainly much better than the previous one! Steve is a really busy man and I'm pretty sure he was unavailable due to other commitments, nothing to do with wanting a different partner for the tour.
As for Ola, I'll be amazed if she's invited back after what happened last year - but anything is possible. Do bear in mind though, that if they follow recent trends they will need one less female pro dancer than last year... so there's a really good reason for Ola to be ditched straight away.
I think as with any personality employed by them, the BBC and the producers have to take into account what type of publicity the pros are bringing them. So I imagine they don't mind the pros having their various ventures outside strictly and interviews/phtoshoots in the press as long as it's not harming the strictly 'brand'', even doing other tv shows and generally giving them positive publicity.....but I can't imagine they'd be well disposed towards anyone who works for them criticising the BBC or the producers - and that's effectively what James and more recently Ola have done - as said before, she also effectively started training for another reality show where she got injured whilst still contracted to Strictly - I can't imagine the producers would be happy with that type of publicity.
I didn't used to mind the Jordans, now their antics just make me feel deeply, deeply cynical. I'd imagine that they cause the BBC quite a few headaches.
It's a pity if Steve wanted to tour they didn't grant him his wish then especially as Ola eventually got injured. I'm sure Janette may have jumped at the chance of going on tour as unfortunately the celebs she's partnered on the show haven't been on the tour and both tours at some of the shows she seems to have been there supporting Aljaz on the sidelines.
Yeah I agree, this could be how it most likely pans out. The Jordans seem to have really strong PR.
I understand that some people really like the Jordans and Ola in particular, but I don't understand the strong desire to see her back on strictly - What's the point in someone carrying on in a role they're clearly not happy in?
I dance a mean Hokey-Cokey in my high heels.
However, as true as that may be, it seems that James and Ola were looking to move away from that way of making a living and Into a more media based payday.
Now, in terms of that the momentum has gone - the stint on CBB is old news and has been superceeded by a series with someone even better at 'telling it like it is' and creating Twitter storms than James and Ola has retreated into rehabilitation.
Being current in media terms for the most part is extremely fleeing. James and Ola's name recognition - and audience draw - came from being part of Strictly and with Ola's injury the time capitalise of that away from the show and become more than 'the one in the catsuit' diminished. To get back to where they were before, i can quite easily see an agent advising that another series of Strictly would be beneficial.
I think Ola is still happy with the role of being a pro on Strictly. Her unhappiness toward the end of last year was a one-off situation.
Being a pro on Strictly is something she is good at. Winning with the worst dancer ever to win Strictly is a bit of an achievement - Chris did have the personality though and they did form a very charismatic team.
I'd agree with backstageone that of the Jordans, Ola is not the problem, although agreeing to try some skiing training before Strictly ended was a foray into James's 100%.