Strictly's Craig Revel Horwood 'stabbed' and 'slashed with a razor blade' during robbery in Madrid
Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood said thieves attacked him in Madrid as they wanted his necklace and other jewellery pieces.
Strictly Come Dancing's Craig Revel Horwood said he was once "stabbed" and "slashed with a razor blade" during a robbery in Madrid.
The BBC Latin and Ballroom dance show's judge said thieves "ripped off" his necklace and "stole" jewellery as he returned home after a night out at a club in the Spanish capital.
Craig, 61, recalled the attack on his 1988 trip on the latest episode of his and fellow Strictly Come Dancing judge, 60-year-old Anton Du Beke's Judgemental podcast.
He said: "I went on holiday in Madrid and got stabbed, that was nice, and it was stinking hot. My jewellery was stolen as well, they ripped my necklace off my neck and gave me a big burn mark. It was a razor blade…
"I was slashed [in the] stomach coming home from a club, it was probably two o'clock in the morning, but that's sort of normal, you go out for dinner at 10 or 11.
"But I remember I was dancing at the Lido de Paris, and we went to Madrid for a holiday, so that ended up pretty bad."
Craig's holiday from hell continued upon his return to Paris as French authorities strip-searched him as they had suspicions he was carrying drugs.
The dancer said: "And then when I got back, I got strip-searched....
"I hadn't shaved, so I did look a bit of a wreck, I'd been stabbed, I had burn marks all around my neck from where I was, like, attacked. And then the French strip-searched me down to literally nothing…. they were looking for drugs."
Disaster also struck on a separate trip to Kenya, where he learnt that his hotel had burnt to the ground.
Craig said: "I remember flying to Mombasa in Kenya. It was all fabulous, I thought, 'Oh yeah, I'm going on safari, that's going to be nice.'
"Got out there, arrived, all the hotels and everything were paid for in advance, they're giving us a like a bus from the airport to the hotel, and they said on arrival, 'Your hotel has burnt down'..
"The hotel was burnt down, and no one bothered to tell us until we actually arrived. Anyway, they found us another one, they just shoved us in there, (and) I went on, you know, a very romantic cruise down the River Nile.
"Then the next day we all had to go to the airport and leave all the crews, and one by one, when we're standing in the queue at the airport, people just were falling to the ground, literally dropping, like boom."
Craig added that the people contracted salmonella caused by "off chicken" they ate on an excursion the night before they jetted back to the UK.
