Strictly Come Dancing star makes hospital dash but informed 'there's no cure'

A Strictly Come Dancing star has been told there is "no cure" for their health issue.

Russell Grant, the starry-eyed astrologer and former Strictly Come Dancing contestant, had a health scare that sent him straight to hospital after he woke up with "strange cottony things floating" in his vision. The 2011 ballroom favourite took to Twitter to share his ordeal.

He said: "Monday: I woke with strange cottony things floating in my left eye. Headed to the opticians for tests. Next day @BlackpoolHosp called: day after into the eye clinic. Result: I had a bleed behind my eye but no retinal damage but it seems I have to befriend the floater! No cure."

Fans of the cosmic guru will remember back in March 2023 when Russell disclosed his brain tumour diagnosis, keeping his followers updated on his health journey ever since.

Just last June, he hinted at a possible return of diabetes, a condition he previously managed through diet, blaming steroids for a potential spike in his blood sugar levels. Followers sent their best wishes to the man who once made a grand entrance on Strictly by being shot out of a cannon, as he navigates this latest challenge.

Russell previously beamed with nostalgia as he spilled the tea on his Strictly experience: "The funniest thing with that is, there I was, turning things down, not thinking I could do them, but with the cannon, I couldn't wait to do it."

"In fact, I demanded to rehearse it six times! I would in no way swap the memories of the Wembley Arena and 6,000 people standing and giving me an ovation – and that was before I had even come out the bloody thing!"

He also confessed that at first he snubbed the chance to be a part of the hit show but his mum, totally hooked on Strictly, convinced him otherwise: "In 2011, I was sat quietly at home in North Wales and the phone rang and the question came of if I would be interested in doing Strictly. And I said no, I was too old."

"I didn't have the confidence and I didn't believe in myself enough. I wanted to stay in my comfort zone, which was astrology then, forgetting that my background was not astrology," he reminisced.

His mother's words were a tipping point: "My mum was wedded to Strictly, bless her. She told me I had to go in and do it or I'd regret it for the rest of my life. We don't want to have regrets – think of Edith Piaf, Je Ne Regrette Rien. I thank god Strictly came into my life. It taught me that if you really want to do something, just do it. I was 60 when I did it and once I'd done it, I thought why the hell couldn't I have done it when I was 30," reports the Mirror.