Dancing On Ice 2025: Live updates as celeb skating contest returns to ITV and executives make main change

Tonight was the primary time Stephen Mulhern returned to TV since his well being scare whereas mourning the dying of his father.

Whereas Stephen did seem on screens because the host of Deal or No Deal, and ITV’s revival of You Wager! over the Christmas interval, these exhibits had been pre-recorded earlier than his well being scare.

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Final yr’s Dancing On Ice winner Ryan Thomas returned to the present with some recommendation for the 2025 cohort.

He mentioned: ‘I am so priveleged and honoured to be introduced again as a champion and shortly everybody will overlook about me and there can be a brand new champion!

‘I’ve acquired the document for many falls in a stay efficiency, I fell twice and I nonetheless received so something is feasible. The very fact they’re getting on this ice and doing it stay, they’re all winners tonight. It is so tough.’

Wildlife presenter Michaela Strachan placed on a showstopping efficiency together with her professional companion Mark Hanretty and bagged the very best rating of the night to date.

She earned a sensational 30.5 out of 40 for her ‘good efficiency of the night time’.

Jane had excessive reward as she mentioned: ‘That routine had the whole lot. I cherished the unison you’ve got collectively – excellent.’

‘Effectively completed, you’ve got set the bar! I find it irresistible,’ added Ashley.

Anton Ferdinand has been labelled as ‘one to look at’ by choose Jane as he earned 6.5’s throughout the board for his unbelievable lifts.

Jane mentioned: ‘Seeing the place you began and what you are able to do now’s superb.’

The panel had been impressed along with his energy as he lifted professional companion Anette with ‘no wobbles in any respect’.

Hollyoaks star Chelsee Healey placed on a ‘crowd-pleasing’ efficiency with professional companion Andy Buchanan to Beyoncé’s Loopy In Love.

Following her efficiency, she admitted: ‘I do not assume I’ve ever been so nervous in my life.’

The judges mentioned of their suggestions that they needed to see ‘extra skating’ from the cleaning soap icon.

Oti mentioned: ‘I believed you got here out like a bit pocket rocket. The one factor I discovered worrying was your core energy,’ as she seen the star had a couple of ‘wobbles’.

Dame Sarah Storey pulled out of Dancing On Ice following a fractured ankle harm in rehearsals.

The Paralympic grand champion, 47, beforehand mentioned she was ‘gutted’ she has needed to go away the competitors only a month earlier than the 2025 present launch.

Sarah, who was as a result of compete on the ice together with her skilled skating companion Sylvain Longchambon, revealed she is now in restoration after an operation.

Showing on tonight’s present with a solid on, she mentioned she was ‘gutted’ and hinted that she could participate subsequent yr as an alternative.

She revealed her ‘ankle took the brunt of the autumn’ and he or she now has 11 screws after surgical procedure.

Ferne McCann was second to carry out together with her professional companion Brendyn Hatfield, as they took to the ice with a ‘breathtaking’ dance to Someplace Solely We Know.

She fought again tears as she revealed her daughter Sunday is within the crowd tonight.

The truth star admitted: ‘I used to be making an attempt not to have a look at her as a result of it was making me properly up much more’.

Talking of her debut efficiency, choose Chris mentioned: ‘The choreography for this actually showcased your skills. It was magical, it was lush.’

Stephen and Holly dropped the bombshell that there can be no Skate Off for the primary two weeks of the present

Six of the {couples} will carry out this week and the opposite half will take to the rink subsequent week.

After everybody has carried out, the couple with the fewest votes and lowest scores can be out immediately with no probability to skate off.

Coronation Road star Sam Aston introduced the enjoyable within the first efficiency of the collection along with his skilled companion Molly Beth Lanaghan.

Donning vibrant neon outfits pair danced on the ice to That is Not My Title by The Ting Tings.

And the funky alternative paid off because the judges had very excessive reward.

Paul gushed: ‘Sam what an incredible first efficiency. I cherished the smoothness of the skating, you are into the ice. A few of the finest again crossovers I’ve seen for the primary present.’

Hosts Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern have opened the present by introducing the glamorous judges.

Holly seems to be sensational in a glittering blue robe with silver detailing in her first Dancing On Ice outfit of the collection.

The launch present has kicked off and the eleven celebrities have taken to the rink collectively for the primary time for a bunch introduction efficiency!

Tell us who you are most excited to see within the feedback part.

Ferne McCann posed for a racy Dancing On Ice shoot on Tuesday as she prepares to take to the rink.

The ITV skating present returns to British screens on Sunday with Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern on the helm, and followers had been handled to promo pictures of the celebrities {and professional} companions.

Former TOWIE star Ferne, 34, confirmed off her unbelievable determine in a plunging pale blue halterneck mini gown.

She posed up a storm alongside her professional skating companion Brendyn Hatfield, who wore a shimmering silver shirt and navy trousers.

The attractive shoot comes days after Ferne acquired candid about her relationship with fiancé Lorri Haines, as she admitted that the couple are ‘not continuously upbeat and constructive’.

The influencer and her companion, 33, share daughter Finty, 16 months, whereas Ferne can also be mom to daughter Sunday, six, from a earlier relationship and Lorri additionally has a son with a former companion.

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Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have revealed their second Dancing On Ice efficiency through the 2025 collection can be their final ever on TV collectively, as they put together for retirement.

The duo, generally known as Torvill and Dean, rose to fame once they received gold on the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics with their iconic skate to Maurice Ravel’s Boléro – which is replicated every year by the Dancing On Ice finalists.

The skating stars delight Dancing On Ice viewers every year as they themselves take to the ice – however they’ve now confirmed that can now not be a characteristic on the ITV present.

In an unique interview with MailOnline, the pair defined: ‘That is our final yr, so it is a massive one.

‘We’re going to do two performances through the collection however the second can be our final ever on tv.’

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Dancing On Ice star Chelsee Healey has revealed she was rushed to medics after a ‘scary fall’ that resulted in her fainting on the ice.

The actress, 36, was left unconscious throughout a coaching session together with her professional skating companion Andy Buchanan, who needed to drag her off ice the ice.

In an unique interview with MailOnline forward of Sunday’s launch present, Chelsee defined: ‘It’s intense, and you employ physique elements that I did not even know I had, like I fell on me, coccyx.

‘That taught me a lesson as a result of I fell on my coccyx, and I acquired up and went all dizzy, and fainted. In order that was really actually scary.

‘Andy picked me up and dragged me off the ice. I used to be all dizzy, after which I simply went. However we acquired by that.’

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Sir Steve Redgrave says he ‘hated’ coaching for the Olympics and has grow to be ‘very unfit’ as he get’s able to carry out on Dancing On Ice.

Because the document holder for probably the most titled rower in historical past, he instructed the Mail: ‘I’ve cherished being again right into a routine.

‘One of many issues I hated within the sport that I did, is that you simply had been all the time doing the identical issues day in and time out.

‘After which once I stopped competing 25 years in the past, and now being again into that, I’ve loved it.

‘I skilled as a result of I preferred profitable and being profitable. And the extra I skilled the extra races I received.’

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Dancing On Ice can pay a poignant tribute to former contestant The Vivienne on Sunday’s launch present.

The gesture comes after it was revealed that the Drag Race star – who took half within the BBC programme in 2023 – had died aged 32 on January 5 2025.

Dancing On Ice can be again on our screens for its seventeenth collection this week and the competitors collection can pay its respects to The Vivienne, based on The Solar.

A present insider instructed the publication: ‘The Vivienne was a trailblazer and was the primary Drag artist to seem on Dancing On Ice.

‘ITV desires to pay their respects to them and can put out a tribute on Sunday night time’s present. The group engaged on the present cherished Viv and needed to do one thing to honour them.’

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Coronation Road’s Sam Aston is the most definitely contestant to win ITV’s Dancing on Ice, based on new knowledge evaluation.

The collection, which is in its seventeenth yr, is again on screens on Sunday January 12 at 6.45pm.

Sam joins the likes of TOWIE’s Fearne McCann, The Traitors star Mollie Pearce and Chelsee Heeley in forming the road up.

Forward of the primary episode, odds consultants at Slotozilla have analysed knowledge from the present’s earlier winners to disclose what makes a profitable contestant.

The analysis which makes use of 15 years value of knowledge analysed a spread of things together with the contestant’s career, hometown, age, gender and extra.

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Dancing On Ice has modified the construction of the present in an enormous shake up designed ‘to keep away from upsetting the celebs’.

ITV bosses are mentioned to have modified the dance-off as the celebs will now not need to skate a brand new efficiency in the event that they discover themselves within the backside two, based on The Solar.

Often, the celebrities not solely needed to be taught a routine for his or her weekly efficiency however would additionally need to put collectively a dance for in the event that they discovered themselves voted into the underside two.

Now it’s believed that the celebs will merely have to simply reperform what they put ahead for the primary competitors.

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Let’s meet the celebrities and their companions forward of tonight’s launch.

Career: Actuality TV star

Associate: Brendyn Hatfield

What did they are saying?: ‘I am so excited, it will be an enormous problem however I am excited for the glitz and glamour of the present.’

Career: Former Olympic rower

What did they are saying? ‘It is like going again to being an athlete once more, I have been competing most of my life.’

What did they are saying?: ‘I’ve skated once I was a child and with mulled wine at Christmas. Till I get on the ice I don’t know how I will be. I am not that sturdy.’

Career: Footballer and pundit

What did they are saying?: Dancing On Ice will give me that focus however I am additionally doing it for my daughter as a result of she loves dance and performing arts.’

What did they are saying?: ‘I am someplace between completely terrified and really excited and I hold flitting between the 2 fairly aggressively all through the day. I’ve not even began stretching but, I have to.’

What did they are saying?: ‘I am prepared, I am good to go, let’s go! I’ve acquired a little bit of rhythm however skating on ice is totally totally different, I am excited.

Career: Actuality TV star and mannequin

What did they are saying?: ‘It is going to be enjoyable, I wish to problem myself, I am prepared for the problem.’

Associate: Molly Beth Lanaghan

What did they are saying?: ‘Anybody at work who I’ve spoken to has completed it have all form of the identical factor that it’s a nice expertise and it’s actually laborious, and it is tiring and difficult however it’s good as properly.’

What did they are saying? ‘I’ve not acquired any skating expertise by any means, I did it as soon as for a date years in the past and I wasn’t excellent, I used to be holding onto the railings all the time and we aren’t collectively now.’

Career: Tv presenter

What did they are saying?: ‘It may be an enormous problem, I believe the final time I used to be on ice was 14 years in the past, as a result of I skilled as a dancer, I’ve acquired a little bit of steadiness, however I don’t know whether or not I will be good.’

What did they are saying?: ‘I am wanting ahead to it however the considered the stay exhibits and performing could be very actual.’

Howdy and welcome to MailOnline’s stay protection of Dancing on Ice 2025 which launches on ITV tonight.

Presenters Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern are returning to the rink as this yr’s solid of celebrities lace up their skates to point out off their strikes on the ice.

Be part of us as we information you thru tonight’s launch present with stay updates, response plus probably the most putting footage and movies from the episode.

Tell us your first impressions on our celeb skaters in our feedback part.

The present begins on ITV at 6.30pm.

Dancing On Ice 2025 is formally underway!

The launch episode has kicked off and we have been launched as soon as once more to the 11 hopeful celebs who can be gracing the ice shortly.

Tell us who you are most excited to see take to the rink within the feedback part.