Strictly’s Craig Revel Horwood ‘stabbed and slashed with razor blade’ during robbery in Madrid

STRICTLY Come Dancing star Craig Revel Horwood has revealed his horror of a trip to Spain which saw him stabbed and strip-searched. The dancer recalled all on his holiday from hell that also saw accusations that he was carrying drugs. Craig Revel Horwood has opened up on being stabbed in Madrid Credit: BBC He revealed how he had also been strip-searched in a bid to find drugs Craig was appearing on the Judgemental podcast with fellow BBC show judge Anton Du Beke in which he opened up on his dreadful time in Madrid. Discussing his less than pleasant experience, Craig confessed: “I went on holiday in Madrid and got stabbed, that was nice, and it was stinking hot. Sign up for the TV newsletter Thank you! “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 in Paris, and we went to Madrid for a holiday, so that ended up pretty bad. The popular star was chatting with co-star Anton Credit: PA They appear on the Judgemental podcast together Credit: Rayo “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.” But that was far from the only disaster that Craig has suffered on his various trips away. A safari trip to Kenya almost suffered an equal disaster after he landed – only to discover that his hotel had burned to the ground and he faced being left without a place to stay. Most read in TV 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..” By the end of the trip, many in his group had contacted salmonella from “off chicken” they had eaten the night before their flight back to the UK. Comment now