Being eliminated from Dancing with the Stars on Sunday night was slightest of former AFL star Brendan Fevola's worries once dropping his dancing partner on her head at rehearsals.
Fevola was eliminated on the last but one night of Seven Network's reality dancing show, leaving singer Danielle Spencer, Packed to the Rafters star Zoe Cramond and X Factor's Johnny Ruffo to fight out next week's grand final.
The former Brisbane Lion and Carlton forward said he accidentally dropped Jessica Raffa on Friday even as attempting to lift his instructor during the jazz.
Fevola said he feared Raffa may have fractured her skull although brain scans later on Friday.
'I dropped Jess on her head and she was a small piece concussed,' Fevola told AAP.
'She had to go to hospital and have some scans.
'They found she jarred her spinal column and was in a neck brace.
'I was shaking at the time and she was clearly out of it.'
Raffa said soon after the event that Fevola insisted that she not go to sleep and instead head directly to hospital for a check-up.
'He had not once dropped me during training and it was just a mishap,' Raffa told AAP.
The accident forced the pair to change their routine for Sunday night's show although their destiny was sealed following last week's performance.
It's not the first time Raffa has been dropped during practices.
In 2009, vision impaired marathon runner Gerrard Gosens let Raffa fall and she again had to be taken to hospital for brain scans after supporting concussion.
Dancing with the Stars, which has struggled to capture audience numbers of last season, pulled out the big guns.
Dame Edna dropped by to present her learned opinion on dancing, US rocker Train performed live and Academy Award winner Russell Crowe called in at the end to notice his wife Danielle Spencer dance.
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