It is usually around this time with Dancing on Ice announcing next year’s contestants, that I would be making my predictions and examining what skills or previous experience they have, as well as trying to guess who they would be partnered with. However, currently I have still not been able to watch a whole iceContinue reading “New/temporary beginnings”
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Last Dance?
This isn’t really a post I would ever planned to have written but having put off writing it for the last two months, here we are. Please do not continue to read if you are at all squeamish. As those reading this are most likely aware, the rinks re-opened to adult and leisure skaters aroundContinue reading “Last Dance?”
Calling all reserves
On Thursday’s This Morning, Christopher Dean admitted that he always advised the show’s reserve skaters to “Practice practice, because you’ve got about a sixty percent chance of being part of the show. And this year is no different”. Except of course, this year is different. Not only is Dancing On Ice subject to the obviousContinue reading “Calling all reserves”
Intros, Injuries, Eliminations and Endless Adverts
Finally! Dancing on Ice 2021 kicked off on Sunday 17th January with an opening group number showing the professionals skateless and dancing off ice like the rest of us before culminating in the studio with rainbows aplenty no doubt in tribute to those risking their lives on the front line of the pandemic. Like allContinue reading “Intros, Injuries, Eliminations and Endless Adverts”
Dancing on Thin Ice
For the last forty-five years Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have graced the world’s rinks together. The Nottingham rink (now The International Ice Centre) of the 1970s was decorated with an alpine mural showing skaters on a frozen lake, inspiring Chris to one day go al fresco. Dancing on Thin Ice saw the 1984 goldContinue reading “Dancing on Thin Ice”
The Real Full Monty on Ice
With presumably less than a month to go before Dancing on Ice returns to our screens, ITV treat us to yet more celebrity skaters stepping even further away from their comfort zones on Monday and Tuesday in The Real Full Monty on Ice. The show was a continuation of previous years’ cancer awareness campaigns culminatingContinue reading “The Real Full Monty on Ice”
First Impressions (part two)
Now that the final three contestants have been announced I thought it was probably time to get round to completing my ridiculously early predictions. If you missed part one you can find it here. Freestyle rapper, Lady Leshurr (born Melesha Katrina O’Garro) is one of those contestants that I have to admit to only knowingContinue reading “First Impressions (part two)”
First Impressions
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to take part in one of Dan Whiston’s online Zumba classes which aside from confirming lockdown has done little to improve my poor fitness levels, also confirmed that the Dancing on ice team were a week away from beginning the process of getting 2021 season trainingContinue reading “First Impressions”
Back on the ice but still back of the queue
I wasn’t planning on waiting so long to write another post, but celebrating the progress Dancing on Ice has made on the new series while the rinks remained closed just seemed distasteful. While pubs and restaurants has been allowed to re-open back on 4th July presumably because drunks are well-known for not invading personal spaceContinue reading “Back on the ice but still back of the queue”
Fear of The future
For clarity I must stress that what follows is merely my observations of the impact of the current situation on the sport and is in no way meant to be a judgement on the decisions being made by any sporting body. Indeed, given the current rates of global infection let alone the catastrophic death rateContinue reading “Fear of The future”
White Skates 