BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood has revealed he was ‘slashed’ in the stomach while holidaying in a Spanish city.
The 61-year-old said he once ‘went on a holiday in Madrid and got stabbed’.
In the same incident, Revel Horwood also had his jewellery stolen and was left with a burn mark on his neck.
He was recounting his travels to pal and fellow Strictly star Anton Du Beke, with whom he has been on the dancing competition show with since it began in 2004.
The pair were talking on their new podcast, Judgemental, in an episode about summer holidays.
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Revel Horwood described the crime scene and said it was ‘stinking hot’ when he was coming home from a club at around two in the morning and attacked with a razor blade.
But the stressful series of events didn’t end there. Revel Horwood described returning to Paris, where he was based at the time, and getting strip searched.
Post-Madrid he said he hadn’t shaved and ‘did look a bit of a wreck’.
He painted the picture: ‘I’ve been stabbed. I had burn marks all around my neck from where I was attacked. And then the French strip searched me down to literally nothing.’
The choreographer clarified to his co-host that the interrogation left him totally naked, as they were looking for drugs.
Du Beke asked where they were searching for the contraband, and Revel Horwood replied: ‘Up my bottom, everywhere.’
He said the whole experience was ‘horrific’.
The famously harsh Strictly judge started dancing at the Lido de Paris on the Champs-Élysées when he was in his early twenties.
He told Virgin Radio in 2022: ‘I thought, “Well, 23, I’ve got a great body. This isn’t going to last forever.” And I thought: “Well, I may as well show it off in Paris.”‘
Speaking about other nightmare holiday scenarios, Revel Horwood also said he once flew to Mombasa in Kenya, only to find his hotel had burnt down before his arrival.
Not short of holiday anecdotes, he then shared that he once went on a ‘very romantic cruise down the River Nile’, but it didn’t end well.
He claimed cruise passengers, including himself, ate off chicken the night before boarding their flight home from Egypt and were horrendously ill with salmonella.
‘It was all good fun until the flight’, he remarked.
Judgemental is available to listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and Rayo.