ITV’s Dancing On Ice mentors Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean are retiring from skating together in 2025.
The duo will be hanging up their skates after marking the 40th anniversary of their Olympic gold win. Fans will be sad to see them retire but will appreciate their honourable career.
Reflecting on deciding to draw things to a close, Dean said: “I think there comes a time when you know. We’re not spring chickens any more but we’re still able to do it to a certain degree that we feel good about it but that will go.
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“So I think this is the right time for us to be able to do that and go and skate and do some of the old routines, be very nostalgic, but then do some new fun, upbeat (dances) with friends of ours from the skating world and from Dancing On Ice. We’re looking at it as a celebration.”
He added: “We’ll have a sense of pride as well, I think, of what we’ve done and still been able to do over the years, bringing competitive skating and competitions and then entertainment through the TV screen. I think we’ll get reflective and look at it not in a sad way but in a happy way.”
The Nottingham pairing cemented their names in British sporting history during the 1984 Winter Games for their impressive routine to Ravel’s Bolero. This competition took place at the Zetra Olympic Hall in Sarajevo.
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To commemorate their Valentine’s Day performance, Torvill and Dean returned to Sarajevo to pay honour to their monumental win. Here, they have confirmed they will embark on one last UK tour.
They will go on tour next year before hanging their skates up for good. The duo have also now reflected on how their golden moment and their sparkling career.
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During the early 80s. their famous Valentine’s Day performance followed a big chunk of success at the World, European and British Championships. The pair didn’t get much time to practise their routine and were given a 6am slot the day of the contest.
After they rehearsed, they heard a “ripple of applause all around the gods of the building” from the cleaners, a core memory which has forever stuck with them. Christopher recalled: “When you think about the whole day, nobody was there, and then as the day goes on, people start to fill the building and the competition happens and it gets to a climax and the gold medals are awarded.
“Then the people start to disappear and then you’re just left with how it was in the morning. We’re almost closing the door on the day.”
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