Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean once admitted how they “dabbled” as teenagers – but “never spoke about it again.”
The pair shot to fame back in the eighties as Olympic gold medal-winning ice skaters. Torvill and Dean ended up retiring from the sport in 1996 – but that didn’t stop their career going from strength to strength.
From 2006 to 2014, and 2018 to now, they have been at the heart of ITV’s smash hit show Dancing On Ice. For 15 years, Torvill and Dean have put a number of celebrities through their paces on the programme.
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And the pair are back on screens once more for the 2024 series of the show. Famous faces including Amber Davies, Ryan Thomas and Claire Sweeney have all taken to the ice to show off their best moves so far.
Both on the ice and off the ice, Torvill and Dean have shown their close bond and have been pals since they were kids. But it turns out their relationship has not always been platonic.
Back in 2013, Torvill and Dean appeared on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories. The host quizzed the pair on their relationship – which led to Torvill revealing that when they were teenagers – Torvill 17 and Dean 16 – they “dabbled” once with a romance.
The pair’s “dabble” was then confirmed in a Radio Times interview. According to Torvill & Dean, they shared a smooch while travelling on a bus together as teenagers.
Torvill said: “We did actually kiss once – before we were a skating couple. She added: “It was a one-off. We never talked about it afterwards. We laugh about it now.”
Dean chimed in and added: “We were 14-years-old, and teenagers in the most naive sense. We didn’t talk about it much after. The skating was everything and having a relationship just didn’t occur to us.”
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While in 2011, Torvill revealed that she and Dean had banned sleeping together. This is because they didn’t want it to cause risk to their skating career.
She said: “We decided very early on that if we had slept together we couldn’t have skated. I remember somebody saying to me, ‘If you’re dating your skating partner and the relationship breaks down, you won’t have your skating partner’.”
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