Chris Taylor crashes to the floor in first Dancing On Ice routine with new partner after Vanessa Bauer quits show

CHRIS Taylor suffered an embarrassing fall as he made his skating debut with his new Dancing On Ice partner.

The Love Island star took to the ice with Robin Johnstone after Vanessa Bauer was forced to withdraw due to injury.

However, as Chris and Robin kicked off their performance to the Pokemon theme tune they suffered a fall.

The 34-year-old appeared to misstep sending both him and Robin crashing to the ice.

Determined to continue with the routine, the pair picked themselves back up and carried on like pros.

After the performance, Chris insisted to hosts Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern it was a mistake and nothing to do with his new partner.

Meanwhile, confirming her exit from Dancing On Ice, Vanessa Bauer told fans: “I’m here today with rather upsetting news.

“I am unfortunately not going to be able to continue on Dancing on Ice with Chris.

“That’s really upsetting for me. I have trained Chris since October last year and it is always such an amazing achievement for myself to see someone else progress so much in a skill they’ve never done before.

“So it’s been really rewarding for me to watch this whole journey for Chris [and] the way he’s got better week since October and also since the live shows started.”

She then went on to explain what had happened and how she was having to put her health first.

Vanessa said: “I unfortunately had a little accident backstage last week on Dancing on Ice just before the live show on Sunday.

“And I didn’t realise how bad it was then, but we did an MRI and it turned out that I have a completely torn ligament, grade three sprain injury and a major grade two sprain injury.”

Dancing On Ice continues on ITV1 and ITVX.