Hanretty said: “On Friday night we had a good week of training, really happy and positive training. We said let’s just do one more run through and of course that was the run through.”
On her recovery, he said: “She is as well as can be expected. My sadness is just that she was such a lovely lady, such a good human and she has just had some really rough luck at the moment.”
Three stars – including Hound and Shepherd – have had to withdraw from the competition so far this series.
Earlier in the series, Denise Van Outen, 46, had to quit the show after partially dislocating her shoulder during training.
The presenter and actress fell during rehearsals for the series launch and made her debut on the ice with her shoulder strapped up.
