DESPITE nursing a broken leg, former Dancing On Ice contestant Giaan Rooney says she enjoyed the challenge and would happily sign up for a second series.The Australia swimming star underwent surgery yesterday after she fell and badly broke her leg while rehearsing for the Channel Nine show.The Olympic gold medallist was practising with skating partner Jonathon O’Dougherty when the accident happened."I would love to tell you we were doing something hard, but we were just warming up actually, just doing what we do every other warm-up day and I caught my toe on the ice and went over," Rooney said from the sidelines of tonight’s show."I am devastated watching everyone else tonight, they look fantastic and I am going to miss being a part of it."Supported by crutches, Rooney said it was great being able to try out something a little risky."These were my teenage rebellious years and I don’t get to go through with them because you’re very precious as an athlete and make sure you look after yourself and that’s why I’ve never been ice skating before," she said."I was really enjoying it, taking a challenge and actually having a bit of fun."Asked if she would come back for series two, Rooney said: "I’d love to, but only if you bring Jonathon back as well."Mr O’Dougherty said he was sad to be out of the game. "I’m really disappointed, I was looking forward to skating tonight … it was going to be fun."Rooney’s injury is the latest to plague the celebrity TV series.Fellow contestant and former Test cricketer Michael Slater was injured last weekend after his partner, Anya D’Jamirze, accidentally skated over his left hand, severing a tendon.Slater, 36, suffered massive bleeding but managed to drive himself to Sydney’s Royal North Shore hospital with a gaping hole in his hand.He is now sporting a cast from his fingers to the elbow but, unlike Rooney, has been able to continue in the show.Last month, Getaway star Jules Lund suffered a spinal injury on the ice in which he fainted and was temporarily unable to move, while Annalise Braakensiek began skating with a fractured rib.
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And all the American version had was a skater stealing a married man away from his pregnant wife.
