'Dancing on Ice' judge Christopher Dean has suffered a finger injury just days before the show's return.
Dancing on Ice judge Christopher Dean has suffered a finger injury just days before the show's return
The 64-year-old Olympic champion - who won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partner and fellow 'Dancing on Ice' judge Jayne Torvill - took to social media to reveal the little finger on his left hand is fractured.
In a post on his and Jayne's official Twitter account, he shared a picture of his injured hand and wrote: "Yes broken"
The star revealed he incurred the injury after falling over a suitcase in the middle of the night.
Joking about the "Iron Lotus", an ice-skating move from the 2007 skating film 'Blades of Glory', he posted: "We were trying the Iron Lotus, but ended up doing a Half Nelson. or did I just fall over a suitcase in the middle of the night. (sic)"
The injury isn't expected to stop Christopher from taking his place on the panel opposite Jayne, and dancers Ashley Banjo and Oti Mabuse when the show returns on Sunday (15.01.23) on ITV1.
Christopher admitted this week that he believes part of the success of the show is because families can tune in and see some "glitz" when it is "dark and bleak" outside early in the year.
Asked why he thinks the programme is so popular with viewers, he said: "Like a lot of shows, you get to a certain time of year - it’s 'Dancing on Ice' time!
"We’ve established that come January when it’s dark and bleak, on TV it's a glitzy and over the top
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"Families can sit down and watch. They can sit down with the kids and be entertained by it. It’s not just about standing up on dry land, they’ve actually had to learn how to skate so the jeopardy factor as Jayne was saying is so much higher."
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