AJ Pritchard fights back tears as he details ordeal of ‘seeing someone he loves on fire’

AJ Prichard fought back tears as he detailed the horrific ordeal of seeing ‘someone he loves on fire’ after his girlfriend Abbie Quinnen was engulfed in flames.

The former Strictly professional, 26, described how a YouTube video went ‘horribly wrong’ and his girlfriend, 23, ‘caught alight so fast’, while trying to forge a vase out of a wine bottle using fire.

AJ told Lorraine on Tuesday how he sat outside the hospital all night after being banned from enterting due to Covid restrictions, after rushing his partner to A&E following the terrifying accident.

Holding back the tears, he said: ‘I sat outside the hospital all night, knowing she wasn’t going to even come out that night, knowing it was very serious.

AJ, who appeared on the show alongside his brother Curtis, 25, added: ‘I was outside the hospital just sat there. I didn’t know what to do.

‘Curtis was telling me to go home because she wasn’t going to be coming out yet.

‘I just couldn’t leave her side, even though I couldn’t go into the hospital because of COVID. I just waited for her.

‘She ended up staying in hospital for five nights, moving from the intensive care unit at Ealing to the burns unit at Chelsea and Westminster.’

Since the incident – which happened on January 19 – Abbie has undergone three skin grafts and doctors are unsure about what exactly her recovery will look like.

During the interview on Tuesday, AJ admitted the possibility of laser treatment to help heal certain areas has been discussed.

But for now, medics have dubbed her Super Abbie because she is ‘healing fantastically’, following the harrowing ordeal.