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Dancing on Ice viewers have been left “shocked” by the primary elimination of the 2025 sequence.
This 12 months’s contestants embraceTOWIE star Ferne McCann, presenter Michaela Strachan, Traitors contestant Mollie Pearace and Olympian Steve Redgrave.
On Sunday (19 January), the second raft of stars participating within the ITV skating competitors carried out one week after the primary took to the rink.
Waterloo Highway and Hollyoaks star Chelsee Healey was the primary to go away this 12 months’s present after discovering herself within the backside two with comic Josh Jones.
Nevertheless, in a twist that’s been branded “unfair” by viewers, there was no skate off, with Healey routinely being voted off as she was on the backside of the scoreboard.
Host Holly Willoughby advised Healey after the consequence was introduced: “I feel everyone seems to be shocked truly to see you on this place.”
Healey revealed that “personally there’s been so much occurring with me that I’ve been fighting so I couldn’t focus”, however added: “I’m simply actually grateful.”
Viewers hit out on the change as much as the voting format, with one writing on X/Twitter: “How can there not be a skate off? What if extra individuals voted final week or this week? Absolutely that might probably imply somebody would unfairly have much less votes?”
One other added: “I do assume the opposite skating couple must be given an additional week to skate , not likely truthful on them being voted out so shortly when it was their first week skating.”
Willoughby’s co-host Stephen Mulhern revealed that, this 12 months, there gained’t be a skate off till the fifth week. Skate offs give the lowest-voted stars an opportunity to carry out once more for the judging panel.
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Indignant viewers at the moment are accusing the sequence of “doing her soiled”, with one stating: “To not put on my tinfoil hat however they royally set her up.”
Different stars taking part on the 2025 sequence of Dancing on Ice consists of Coronation Road actor Sam Aston, EastEnders star Charlie Brooks, footballer and pundit Anton Ferdinand and ex-reality stars Dan Edgar (TOWIE) and Chris Taylor (Love Island).
After being introduced as a 2025 contestant, the primary eliminee Healey, who additionally starred in Casualty, mentioned: “I’m most excited for the reside exhibits, attending to carry out reside each week will give me a buzz. I can’t anticipate the reside exhibits.”
This 12 months marks the seventeenth sequence of the present, which ran from 2006 to 2014 earlier than returning in 2018.
