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Will tendinitis keep Jewel from ‘Dancing’?

“Dancing With the Stars” contestant Jewel has tendinitis in her knees, the singer revealed on her blog on Wednesday — an injury she said may keep her from competing on the ABC show.
/ Source: Access Hollywood

“Dancing With the Stars” contestant Jewel has tendinitis in her knees, the singer revealed on her blog on Wednesday — an injury she said may keep her from competing on the ABC show.

“I guess I really over did it on the rehearsal front!” she wrote. “My knees have been hurting so badly that I finally broke down and talked to [husband] Ty [Murray]‘s knee doctor yesterday. He said I have tendinitis in my knees and that I have to start a course of medicine to try and bring the swelling down.”

And the tendinitis, which is mostly in her left knee, will keep her off the dance floor for the next few days — and maybe longer.

“Now I’m just worried I won’t even be able to dance!” she said. “Hopefully these steroids will really do the trick and I can keep bad flare ups at a bay in the future.”

“It was just so fun to dance eight hours a day,” she added. “Especially considering I only had three weeks to cram not only for my first dance, cha cha, but to learn the fundamentals of about six other dances that I will have to know.”

If she is able to take part in the competition, Jewel will be dancing with professional Dmitry Chaplin on the show’s eighth cycle, which premieres March 9 on ABC. She’ll be competing against stars including husband Ty Murray and Access’ own Nancy O’Dell.