Karen Carney has opened up about struggling with her mobility while dancing with Carlos Gu on the show.<\/p>\n
She suffers from spinal disorder Schuermann’s disease, which can cause back pain and movement issues.<\/p>\n
She told the Mirror: “<\/p>\n
“I’ve always remained that I’m happy, I’m healthy, and it’s never stopped me from doing what I want to do. I just want to show that I might not be the perfect dancer. I will not have the perfect posture, but I’ll certainly give it my best. Dancing is always about joy; it’s how much fun you have and how much joy you can bring to the audience. I think if you can achieve that, that’s the whole point.<\/p>\n
“I’ve had it for years and I coped with it in football. I adapted and found a way.<\/p>\n
“So it’s a challenge for me to adapt and find ways in something that’s very unfamiliar to me in the dancing world. But I think we’ve had some really good advice and really good support to try and make that easier for me and we work on it.<\/p>\n
“My back is very stiff, mobility-wise it’s very restrictive and I’ll be open and honest about that. But it doesn’t mean I won’t try and work on things, it doesn’t mean I won’t try and help improve my mobility and Carlos has been very, very, very supportive, emotionally as well, to try and help me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karen Carney has opened up about struggling with her mobility while dancing with Carlos Gu on the show.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[192,166898,6572,159364,77,70108,70109,1888,70110,70111,49410,75206,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-542643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-bbc-strictly","10":"tag-claudia-winkleman","11":"tag-dance-competition","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-strictly","14":"tag-strictly-2025","15":"tag-strictly-come-dancing","16":"tag-strictly-come-dancing-2025","17":"tag-strictly-news","18":"tag-television-show","19":"tag-tess-daly","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115476112785940192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}