'He was on the brink of fainting': Dancing on Ice showmates rally round "embarrassed" Gareth Thomas

Host Phillip Schofield told viewers today that medics prevented rugby player from continuing after he could not remember earlier events

Dancing on Ice showmates have rallied round poorly Gareth Thomas after the celeb skater was too sick to perform in last night’s skate-off .
Show host and This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield told viewers today how he thought the 38-year-old was “on the brink of fainting” after the former rugby player postponed an appearance on the ITV show to receive further medical attention.
"For the first time ever, there was no skate off,” recalled Schofield.
“We hoped, obviously, that he'd be here this morning, but he has gone to see his doctor so he can't be here. But he tweeted us earlier saying 'I hope I can come in this week. Off to the doctors'... so he's feeling better today I think, but what a shocker."
"You can tell when you look at someone and think 'he's on the brink of fainting' or that certainly something’s not right, and as I said before, he's a big guy, if he was to go down none of us would be able to stop him hitting the deck."
An obviously worried Phillip added that star Gareth could not remember events that had happened earlier on that day – and so medics insisted that the burly ex-CBB housemate could not continue with the stunts planned.

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"The worse thing was, the reason that he couldn't skate and the reason he couldn't fly was that in the afternoon he'd been very poorly, he'd been up on the rig, had been brought down early, was sick and was brought a bucket and was very poorly - but couldn't remember it happening,” continued Phillip.
“So they said, well if you can't remember that, then you can't fly, that's not right. And then when he skated during the show, he couldn't remember that routine either, so they said well that's definitely not safe, you have to stop because you could fall and hurt yourself or hurt your partner."
The presenter added: "It is no way to go out of the competition though, it is a shame."
This Morning's Dancing on Ice correspondent Kerry Katona also revealed that Gareth was “embarrassed” over the nature of his departure.
She said: "I spoke to his mum last night and she just said that he feels a little bit embarrassed with him being a sportsman because he's gutted with the fact he had to leave the show under those circumstances and he wanted to go all the way."
And earlier, Christine Bleakley told Lorraine Kelly that the Welsh egg-chasing legend has been taking every measure to beat what she described as “motion sickness”.
She said: “He was struggling all week actually he’d been really, really ill I think it was just a really severe kind of motion sickness and he’d taken every pill under the sun and done everything right but it just didn’t agree with him at all.”
The 34-year-old added that Gareth and his fellow stars were disappointed that he had left the competition at such a late stage.
“There was a few disappointed people, and of course Gareth as well, who was just gutted, gutted about the whole thing,” said Bleakley.
“Everyone is very disappointed for him and the finalists in fact because they genuinely all get along really well, they’ve been through this crazy thing together and so they are all very, very good friends so I know they were really, really devastated for him as well.”