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11 Jan 2024, 09:55
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Eddie ‘the Eagle’ Edwards has opened up about having to learn to skate with a brand new partner just days before Dancing on Ice 2024 begins.
The Olympic ski icon was drafted in to replace Gogglebox’s Stephen Lustig-Webb, who had to pull out of the competition due to injury.
Eddie was then paired up with Tippy Packard, but unfortunately for the pro-skater, she’s also now departed the series, and has been replaced by Vicky Ogden.
Speaking at the Dancing on Ice 2024 launch event, Eddie exclusively told virginradio.co.uk that he’ll now be “flying the flag” for Tippy.
“She was wonderful,” he told us. “We started off, she got a bit of the routine together and we had great fun but unfortunately with her knee damaging, it's lovely to have Vicky come in and take over. The technicalities that Vicky's brought to my routine as well, everything's great, but yeah, get well soon Tippy.”
Vicky also admitted her sudden recruitment was “a whirlwind”, and confessed: “We're really gutted for Tippy, because she's done so much hard work. She's done an amazing job with Eddie from day one. So we're gutted, but we want to do her proud as well.”
On how those intense training days are going, Eddie revealed that Vicky is “really strict at times”, but he’s confident her two decades as a coach will get the pair to the final.
He continued: “Vicky's great as a teacher because she's been a coach for 20 years. So she knows all this very, very intricate technicalities of the different moves and the elements that we're trying to do.
“We have lots of fun doing it as well. So it's nice to get all those technical things because I want to get it right. I have to get it right. I want to have fun with it too. Vicky is really really good for that.”
Eddie will be skating in week two of Dancing on Ice 2024, with the likes of Love Island winner and West End star Amber Davies; Olympic gold medallist Greg Rutherford MBE; S Club 7’s Hannah Spearritt; World Champion boxer Ricky Hatton MBE; Emmerdale’s Roxy Shahidi; and former Coronation Street star Ryan Thomas hitting the ice on Sunday.
The first show back this weekend will also mark Holly Willoughby’s return to television alongside show newbie Stephen Mulhern, ITV shared: “Holly and Stephen are two of our best loved presenters, so reuniting them twenty years after they first appeared on screen together... marks the start of an exciting year for the show.
“Celebrating 20 years since they first worked together on Ministry of Mayhem, Willoughby and Mulhern will preside over the action on the high octane skating show as this year’s celebrities compete to become champion of the ice,” the statement continued, while also confirming the judges who would be appearing on 2024’s show.
Dancing on Ice starts Sunday, 14th January, at 6:30pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
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