Siva Kaneswaran of The Wanted has spoken out about having a concussion only days before the premiere of Dancing On Ice.
Siva, 34, will appear alongside Love Island‘s Ekin-Su Culculoglu and The Only Way Is Essex’s Joey Essex in the ITV juggernaut series’ 2023 edition.
The performers will compete to impress judges Christopher Dean, Oti Mabuse, Ashley Banjo, and Jayne Torvill on the competition show, which will be hosted by Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield.
However, Siva suffered a serious injury during training.
Chatting, he explained: ‘I had a serious fall and I hit the back of my head.
‘So I’ve been diagnosed with a mild concussion.’
He continued: ‘It can really shake your confidence, especially when you just crack your head on the ice.’
However, Siva admitted that he had ‘expected’ a fall like this during training but was determined to stay ‘focused’, knowing that injuries were ‘part of the whole journey’.
When asked about the fall, the Glad You Came singer said he blacked out for “two seconds” that he doesn’t recall, but was quickly checked by medics.
This comes after Siva stated that he wished to honour his bandmate Tom Parker when he went to the ice.
He said: ‘I wanted to take what happened with Tom, you know losing Tom and I was inspired by him and his fight, and take that bravery onto the ice to show people that when you fall down you can get back up.
‘I’m doing it obviously to carry on his memory.’
Parker died at a hospice near the south-east London house he shared with his wife Kelsey and their two children after being diagnosed with stage four glioblastoma in October 2020.
Nathan Sykes, Jay McGuiness, Max George, and Siva, members of his band, were pallbearers at his funeral in April.
Siva also revealed his family thought he was ‘mental’ for signing up for Dancing On Ice because he ‘can’t even dance.’
‘To be dancing on ice, they think I’m bonkers,’ he continued. ‘But I’m very determined.’
Dancing on Ice starts on Sunday at 6:30pm on ITV1 and ITVX.