'Dancing' celeb Melissa Rycroft suffers head injury
![Melissa Rycroft rehearses her 'guilty pleasure' tango with pro partner Tony Dovolani.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.usatoday.com/gcdn/media/USATODAY/lifelinelive/2012/10/22/melissatonytango-3_4.jpg?width=282&height=375&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
Melissa Rycroft was taken to the hospital on Sunday to be checked out after falling during Dancing With the Stars rehearsals.
People.com reports the celeb suffered a head and neck injury while working on her group dance, doing camera blocking for the show tonight.
"Melissa was taken by ambulance to a local hospital where she is currently being examined," Rycroft's rep told People. Rycroft's husband, Tye Strickland, and her dance partner, Tony Dovolani, accompanied her.
Dovolani tweeted on Sunday: "Really concerned about @MelissaRycroft..... we don't know if we are dancing tomorrow !!!!! Please keep us in your prayers #trouper"
Team Emmit Smith tweeted: "I really hope Melissa Rycroft is ok. She was taken to the hospital with a head/neck injury. Saying a prayer for her tonight."
E! News reports Rycroft was released by Sunday evening.
Rycroft, 29, is dancing the tango, her "guilty pleasure" dance, to Britney Spears on Tuesday's one-hour performance show. She and Dovolani are scheduled to perform a team dance on tonight's one-hour performance show (ABC, 8 p.m.). There is no elimination (no results show) this week.