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Dancing on Ice is due again on screens in a matter of months, with 12 new movie star contestants being unveiled all through the day.
Season 17 of ITV’s ice skating competitors will return to screens in 2025. A precise date is but to be confirmed, however it’s anticipated to air in January as has been the case for earlier seasons, with contestants beginning coaching as early as subsequent week.
It’s understood that Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern will host the forthcoming sequence collectively for a second time.
Deal or No Deal star Mulhern changed Phillip Schofield final 12 months when he give up the community after admitting an “unwise however not unlawful affair” with a youthful male colleague.
On Monday (30 September), ITV introduced the forged for the brand new season with confirmed contestants already together with actuality TV stars and broadcasters.
See the rolling record of confirmed contestants for Dancing On Ice 2025 under…
Ferne McCann
The primary star confirmed to take to the ice subsequent 12 months is TV persona Ferne McCann. The 34-year-old is greatest referred to as a long-time forged member of The Solely Manner Is Essex.
Talking on Good Morning Britain, she stated: “I’m trying ahead to it, it’s gonna be such a problem, I’m such an enormous fan of the present and with all of the glitz and the glamour, it’s gonna be good. I’ve bought no concept [who my partner is]. I wanna be good, I’m aggressive…I’m trying ahead to the problem. We haven’t began coaching but, we begin subsequent week.”
In addition to TOWIE, McCann competed on 2015’s season of I’m a Celeb… Get Me Out of Right here, putting third after runner-up George Shelley and winner Vicky Pattison. No stranger to TV competitions, she additionally featured on Celeb SAS: Who Dares Wins and Celebs Go Courting.
McCann, who has two kids, beforehand offered exhibits together with First Time Mum and My Household and Me.
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Mollie Pearce
Second to be introduced on this years line-up is Traitors star Mollie Pearce
Talking on Lorraine, the 22-year-old stated: “It is going to be enjoyable, I need to problem myself, I’m prepared for the problem.” Pearc additionally stated that she used to skate together with her mom when she was youthful.
The incapacity mannequin and healthcare assistant rose to fame on the second sequence of BBC’s hit recreation present The Traitors. She made it to the ultimate of the competitors earlier than she was betrayed by her buddy Harry Clark, who went on to win the sequence.
In her work as a incapacity mannequin for manufacturers corresponding to Tommy Hilfiger, Pearce has modelled totally different sorts of adaptive clothes, together with swimwear and underwear that accommodates a stoma – such because the one she wears as a consequence of ulcerative colitis, an autoimmune situation that causes irritation within the giant gut triggering ulcers and debilitating ache.
Radio DJ Adele Roberts, a fellow stoma bag person who competed on Dancing On Ice final 12 months, despatched Pearce a message congratulating her on “probably the most unbelievable information” and thanking her for bringing consciousness to stoma luggage.
Sir Steve Redgrave
Third on the record is Olympic rowing legend Sir Steve Redgrave, who instructed This Morning: “It’s like going again to being an athlete once more, I’ve been competing most of my life.”
The 62-year-old rower gained gold medals at 5 consecutive Olympic Video games from 1984 to 2000, making him probably the most profitable male rower in Olympic historical past. In 2011, he was awarded BBC Sports activities Persona of the Yr – Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Buckinghamshire-born athlete was made a CBE in 1997, and in 2001 was appointed a Knight Bachelor for his companies to rowing.
Sam Aston
Coronation Avenue star Sam Aston instructed This Morning that he’s “nervous however excited to get going”.
“It’s going to be good for the general public to see me for me quite than Chesney,” stated the actor who’s greatest identified for his position as Chesney Brown on the ITV cleaning soap opera.
Aston, 31, joined Coronation Avenue in 2003 after which he was awarded Finest Newcomer on the Nationwide Tv Awards. His older sister, Emily Aston, performed Becky Palmer on the sequence frm 1996 to 1997.
Earlier this 12 months, he celebrated the beginning of his third little one together with his spouse, Briony, a child lady referred to as Hazel Marie Aston.
Charlie Brooks
Charlie Brooks, greatest identified for taking part in the evil Janine Butcher in EastEnders, has stated she is “going to embrace the spray tan”.
Talking forward of the present, she stated: “All I need to do is get pleasure from it and take a look at to not break my leg.”
The actor first appeared as Janine on the BBC cleaning soap in 1998, succeeding Alexa Demetriou within the position. She left the cleaning soap in 2004 and, after a number of small returns, got here again as an everyday in 2008. She departed once more in 2014, however returned in 2021.
Josh Jones
Slapstick comedian Josh Jones is the sixth movie star confirmed to be becoming a member of the sequence.
Speaking to radio station Gaydio concerning the announcement, he admitted he has “no expertise” with skating however “did it as soon as for a date years in the past” and he “wasn’t excellent”.
“I used to be holding onto the railings your entire time and we aren’t collectively now,” he stated. “My dancing isn’t nice both, for a homosexual man I’ve no rhythm, I battle to clap alongside to a beat so this shall be enjoyable.”
The comic has appeared on varied TV exhibits, corresponding to UK Comedy Central Reside, The Chris McCausland present and hosts the podcast Lifeless Drama.
