THIS is the shocking moment when former Love Island star Ovie Soko dislocated Chris Robshaw’s shoulder.

The celebrities were tasked with boxing each other, and the pair were involved in a brutal fight on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.

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Ovie, 33, signed up to compete on the survival show alongside the likes of fellow reality stars Pete Wicks, Bobby Norris and Georgia Harrison.

However, the former ITV2 personality was engaged in a gruelling boxing bout against the former England Rugby player.

The fight between the duo was stopped after Chris claimed that his shoulder was dislocated.

After the incident, he was then rushed to see the show’s expert medical team.

Chris, 38, was then examined by seasoned expedition leader Dr Raj Joshi who asked him to tightly squeeze his fingers in the examination.

He then informed the star: “Okay. So your shoulder is unstable.

“This could pop at any time. So for that reason, I’m gonna have to medically withdraw you from the course.”

Dr Raj added: “It’s just one of those things, yeah, all right, yeah, okay. I’m gonna have a chat with the DS.”

The former athlete couldn’t help but reflect on his journey on the hit Channel 4 endurance show.

He stated: “As a sports person. You gradually come to terms with your body can’t do it.

“Your body’s not what is 10 years ago. When you do get to that stage where you do have to, unfortunately, move on from what you love doing, it’s really hard.”

Chris was the eleventh recruit into the notoriously tough process which sees a number of celebrity stars put in harsh environments around the world.

Their two-week long training course is designed to replicate the actual United Kingdom Special Forces selection course.

He was the fourth recruit to drop out of the process after Tez Ilyas was culled, Marnie Simpson and John Barrowman withdrew.

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Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins is available to watch on Channel 4.

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ITV’s new drama about notorious 1980s jewel thief Joan Hannington has been heavily trailed as one of the small screen highlights of the autumn. There are reasons for excitement: Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner takes the lead role, her first since true crime thriller The Staircase in 2022. There’s a glorious Eighties soundtrack, spanning Soft Cell to “Club Tropicana”. And there are oh so many fabulous, flammable-looking wigs, not to mention all the shimmering diamonds. So why does it often feel as middle-of-the-road as a Sunday morning stroll around H Samuel?

The opening moments tell us that Joan is a trickster, but one who has weathered trauma: she sits in a swanky hotel in her bra, glamming herself up, her back covered in scars. Peering at a jewellery box chock-full of rolled-up banknotes, she answers the phone in a classy American accent, then drops a sparkly gem on the floor. “F***’s sake, where did that go?” Joan mutters, suddenly revealing herself to be unaffectedly cockney. It’s an introductory mise-en-scene that suggests twists and turns, but Joan quickly settles into something less surprising and more soap opera-ish.

From here, the timeline skips back to Joan at her pokey flat on the Kent coast, looking after her daughter Kelly while her deadbeat criminal husband Gary behaves erratically. One minute he’s turning up in a sports car with gifts such as a fancy fur coat, the next he’s gone awol and Joan has shifty blokes turning up at her house in the middle of the night asking where he is. (Lots of scenes are VERY dark, and by that I literally just mean the lighting.) Quickly Joan realises she needs to make a dash for it, with Gary’s dodgy dealings endangering her and their daughter: she drops Kelly off at social services – a system that played a large part in her own childhood – and heads to London to try to find a job and somewhere else to live.

Soon she’s found a gig at a jeweller’s, where her sleazy boss is very keen to do a “stock take” in a room with no cameras. Instead, this becomes the scene of Joan’s first act of thievery: she gollops a bunch of expensive jewels, before later heading to the ladies with a crystal bowl full of gin ready to sterilise them. You’ll never look at Bombay Sapphire the same way again. In the interval in which she’s waiting for nature to do its course, Joan meets Boise (Frank Dillane), an antiques dealer with a side gig in stealing: he takes a shine to her and recruits her as a sidekick.

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The team behind the drama – it is written by creator Anna Symon and Helen Black, and directed by Richard Laxton – have already made it clear in interviews that they felt a duty to the real-life Hannington in telling her story. And the show does have good intentions. By showing Joan’s love for her daughter to be her central motivation, the drama points to a fundamental desperation beneath her criminal activities. It also underlines how it is the unpleasant men around her – from the abusive husband to the pervy boss – who push her further into taking matters into her own hands, in the only way that seems available to her.

But there’s a pedestrian tone to the script that makes this all less compelling than it should be. “What do you want, Joan?” one cipher-like male character asks her. “You’ve got some balls, gewl,” Boise declares. Turner brings warmth to the main role, and a poignancy to Joan’s devotion to her daughter, but it’s also a curiously humourless performance. The star is unable to locate the magnetism that would make the role truly memorable.

Only the first two episodes were available to reviewers, but from a quick Google it’s clear that Hannington’s life didn’t get any easier or less dramatic. She is obviously a fascinating figure, with the kind of life that makes a TV commissioner’s eyes light up. It’s a shame, then, that the nuances of her story sometimes feel lost here, with a portrait that falls between “victim” and “girl boss” without the gritty grey areas in between. It could have been 10 carat, but the result is something more cubic zirconia.

‘Joan’ is on ITV1 and ITVX

CORONATION Street star John Thomson has teased a dramatic storyline for his return to the cobbles.

The actor is returning for Helen Worth’s exit storyline after Sean Wilson was axed from the show.

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Cold Feet and Fast Show star John, 55, is set to have a romance plotline with Sean’s character Martin Platt’s ex-wife.

He played children’s entertainer Jesse Chadwick from 2008 to 2010.

Helen Worth, 73, who plays Gail, is leaving after 50 years on the show.

Due to Sean’s sudden departure from the show, the writers had to conjure up a quick storyline.

Comedian John’s character is set to roll into town just as his ex Eileen Grimshaw returns to Weatherfield from Thailand.

She is shocked to see him, but soon discovers he wasn’t looking for her – instead he’s got his eye on her neighbour and nemesis Gail.

And the surprises keep coming when Gail and Jesse reveal that they met each other when Gail was travelling a few years ago and have kept in touch. 

Jesse has heard about Gail’s granddaughter Bethany’s Turkish cosmetic surgery nightmare and, worried about his friend, decides to pay a visit.

“It’s a joy to be given stuff that’s sometimes dramatic and sometimes humorous, it’s really nice to get to play both sides.”

“The Platts are totally baffled by Jesse’s arrival, how do they react to him suddenly appearing and showing concern?

“So two like him and two hate him! Shona and Nick are prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt, whereas David and Sarah are absolutely not, it’s just total mistrust from the start,” he added.

“There is the thinking that they need a decent man in their lives, but as soon as David lists all Gail’s previous it’s no wonder that there is a mistrust, because Gail’s sense of judgement over men has been very poor.

“Really Shona and Nick are very generous in their offer to wipe the slate clean and see what Jesse might be like given Gail’s history.

“Jesse’s going to have to work really hard to get David and Sarah on his side and see he is just a friend who cares about Gail because there’s a real sense of mistrust about his motives.”

Cast and crew were ­baffled by Sean’s leaving.

A spokeswoman said he “stepped down for personal reasons”.

A source said of John’s return: “It’s been an absolutely frantic, incredibly stressful past couple of weeks for Corrie bosses and scriptwriters.”

Speaking of thee quick turnaround, John said: “I was a bit shell shocked when I first came in because I’d forgotten the speed of the turnaround so it was an absolute baptism of fire.”

Speaking about being reunited with Helen, he said: “Helen and I are absolutely thrilled to be working together, everyone’s good company and there’s always fun to be had on set with the Platts which is great.”

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