Comic Josh Jones was the sixth superstar confirmed to be participating within the new collection of Dancing on Ice on Wednesday.
Speaking completely to Gaydio this morning Josh stated: ‘I’ve not bought any skating expertise by any means, I did it as soon as for a date years in the past and I wasn’t superb, I used to be holding onto the railings the whole time and we aren’t collectively now.
‘My dancing is not nice both, for a homosexual man I’ve no rhythm, I battle to clap alongside to a beat so this will likely be enjoyable.’
Josh is a rise up comic. After starting his profession performing in small venues and dealing males’s golf equipment, he went on to embark on his personal comedy excursions: Waste of House and Gobsmacked.
It comes after EastEnders star Charlie Brooks was the fifth star to be confirmed to on Tuesday.
Comic Josh Jones was the sixth superstar confirmed to be participating within the new collection of Dancing on Ice on Wednesday
Dancing On Ice kicks off in January 2025 with hosts Stephen Mulhern and Holly Willoughby on the helm
Showing on Loose Women on Tuesday, Charlie, 43, finest identified for enjoying villain Janine within the cleaning soap, stated; ‘I’ve identified for a couple of weeks. Every part been so psychological over the previous few months and its simply settling in.
‘Everybody’s like how are you feeling, I endure with nerves so I do not understand how that’s going to go.
‘I’ve skated once I was a child and with mulled wine at Christmas. Till I get on the ice I do not know how I’ll be. I am not that robust.
‘I am not aggressive but it surely would possibly come out in me and I wish to have enjoyable and never get injured.’
She continued: ‘I over thought it for a very long time however I believed what would my 10 12 months previous self assume and I believed she can be like completely sure.
‘I had two phrases firstly of the 12 months which had been intentional and adventurous.’
Detailing her worries for the competitors, Charlie went on: ‘I do not know if my physique’s going to let me down as a result of I do not really feel like I am that robust for the time being, and I see them doing that crouch on the ice and that simply blows my thoughts.’
In the meantime, speak quickly turned to EastEnders, with Charlie admitting that she would ‘by no means say by no means’ a couple of potential return to the BBC cleaning soap.
Charlie, whose character Janine made a spectacular exit on Boxing Day 2022, stated: ‘I have never had the cellphone name but to return for the anniversary however she is such a villain, I might.
‘I nonetheless get ‘you killed Barry!’ from individuals on the road and I am like that was 22 years in the past, I simply reply ‘he deserved it’.’
I might by no means say by no means about going again, the writing is nice and it’s completed so brilliantly.
She will likely be becoming a member of Coronation Street star Sam Aston, TOWIE star Ferne McCann, The Traitors‘ Mollie Pearce and Olympic rowing legend Sir Steve Redgrave have been confirmed to be participating within the new collection of Dancing on Ice in 2025.
It comes after EastEnders star Charlie Brooks was the fifth star to be confirmed to on Tuesday
Showing on Free Ladies on Tuesday, Charlie, 43, finest identified for enjoying villain Janine within the cleaning soap, stated; ‘I’ve identified for a couple of weeks. Every part been so psychological over the previous few months and its simply settling in’
‘Everybody’s like how are you feeling, I endure with nerves so I do not understand how that’s going to go’
‘I’ve skated once I was a child and with mulled wine at Christmas. Till I get on the ice I do not know how I’ll be. I am not that robust’
Charlie, whose character Janine [pictured] made a spectacular exit on Boxing Day 2022, stated: ‘I have never had the cellphone name but to return for the anniversary however she is such a villain, I might’
Sam, finest identified for his position as hapless Chesney Brown on Coronation Road, was unveiled as the latest contestant during Monday’s edition of This Morning.
He instructed the present: ‘I cannot say it was one thing that I all the time needed to do. It took place, and it was simply one among them. The press workplace talked about it, we went for a chat and I bought an actual buzz simply stepping into and experiencing it.
‘We simply went for a chat, they clarify how the present works and so they stand you on the ice for 5 or 10 minutes simply to get a primary sense of what you will be like and that was it actually.’
The soap star – who has Sonny, 4, Daisy, two and four-month previous Hazel with spouse Briony Gardner – made appearances on The place the Coronary heart Is and The Invoice earlier than touchdown his signature position as Chesney.
However aside from participating in an episode of All-Star Household Fortunes in 2005, has hardly ever featured as himself on TV as a result of it was not one thing he had ever thought-about after beginning his profession as a baby.
Coronation Road star Sam Aston has been introduced because the fourth contestant to participate in Dancing On Ice when it launches subsequent 12 months
Sam, finest identified for his position as hapless Chesney Brown on Coronation Road (pictured), was unveiled as the newest contestant throughout Monday’s version of This Morning
Olympic rowing legend Sir Steve Redgrave is the third superstar confirmed to be participating within the new collection of Dancing on Ice in 2025
He joins The Traitors star Mollie Pearce within the line up for the present which often begins airing in January
She joins actuality TV legend Ferne McCann on the present after the First Time Mum star was earlier revealed as the primary superstar contestant
He stated: ‘Coming into the present as a younger baby, you do not actually take into consideration doing I am A Celeb or something like that. However I’ve bought youngsters myself now, and my son is fairly enthusiastic about it.’
An actor from ITV’s flagship cleaning soap usually takes half in Dancing on Ice, and Sam will likely be following within the footsteps of the likes of Lisa George (Beth Tinker), Faye Brookes (Kate Connor), Sally Dynevor (Sally Metcalfe) and Ryan Thomas (Jason Grimshaw), who claimed victory in final 12 months’s competitors.
He added: ‘Anybody at work who I’ve spoken to has completed it have all type of the identical factor that it’s a nice expertise and it’s actually onerous, and it is tiring and difficult however it’s sensible as effectively. I am nervous, however I am excited as effectively.’
First Time Mum star Ferne was the primary to be revealed on Monday morning, simply earlier than Mollie and Steve had been unveiled.
Steve’s thrilling information was introduced on This Morning with the 62-year-old saying: ‘It is like going again to being an athlete once more, I have been competing most of my life.’
He has gained gold medals at 5 consecutive Olympic Video games from 1984 to 2000. He has additionally gained three Commonwealth Video games gold medals and 9 World Rowing Championships golds.
Talking on the daytime TV present he joked: ‘They haven’t discovered skates to suit me but, I’ve very huge toes, dimension 12 and really huge, I’m having some footwear made for me!’
Steve’s thrilling information was introduced on Monday’s This Morning with the 62-year-old saying: ‘It is like going again to being an athlete once more, I have been competing most of my life’
He has gained gold medals at 5 consecutive Olympic Video games from 1984 to 2000. He has additionally gained three Commonwealth Video games gold medals and 9 World Rowing Championships golds
It got here simply after Mollie was introduced on Lorraine, with the sweetness – who made her TV debut within the second collection of The Traitors earlier this 12 months – telling how she was ‘trying ahead to the bodily problem’ of the present.
She instructed the host: ‘It is going to be enjoyable, I wish to problem myself, I am prepared for the problem.’
The mannequin, 22, who has a stoma bag after having her colon eliminated in 2020 because of having ulcerative colitis since she was 11, stated of the bag: ‘I believe for me my stoma has given me my life again’.
She was then given phrases of encouragement by fellow stoma bag wearer Adele Roberts, who supportively instructed Mollie to ‘go and smash it!’
Mollie, who was additionally born with no fingers on her proper hand, added of her incapacity: ‘I have additionally tailored, I’ve by no means let it get in the best way earlier than and I’m not going to begin now.’
The courageous TV star went on: ‘I actually wish to do the top banger however my mother and father will kill me.
In the meantime, Mollie made her TV debut within the second collection of The Traitors earlier this 12 months
Mollie’s thrilling information was introduced on Monday’s Lorraine, with the sweetness telling how she was ‘trying ahead to the bodily problem’ of the present
The mannequin, 22, who has a stoma bag after having her colon eliminated in 2020 because of having ulcerative colitis since she was 11, stated of the bag: ‘I believe for me my stoma has given me my life again’
Mollie, who was additionally born with no fingers on her proper hand, added of her incapacity: ‘I’ve additionally tailored, I’ve by no means let it get in the best way earlier than and I’m not going to begin now’
‘I’m trying ahead to a transfer bodily problem, I’m actually able to throw myself into it!’
She added that although she’s but to start her official coaching, she’s ‘raring to go now’.
Mollie went on: ‘The thought is frightening however I wish to get began.’
After being tricked into considering Harry was a Devoted within the present, Mollie later instructed how there have been no onerous emotions and that issues had been ‘nice’ between them.
She stated: ‘It is a sport, and I believe individuals do neglect we signed ourselves up for that sport, and there was all the time an opportunity that somebody was going to be mendacity to you.
‘It was a truth – there was all the time going to be an opportunity that you simply had been going to be shut with that individual.’
A proud advocate of bowl circumstances, again in Might Mollie fronted a brand new marketing campaign about inflammatory bowel illness (IBD) as she urged individuals to banish the ‘taboo round poo’.
It comes after Ferne revealed her participation on Monday’s episode of GMB, because the mother-of-two shared: ‘I am so excited, it will be an enormous problem however I am excited for the glitz and glamour of the present.’
Requested if she will be able to skate, she confessed: ‘Sort of… I’ve completed Winter Wonderland and stuff like that with the youngsters however you realize the penguins? I am hunched over a type of!’
Ferne shot to fame in 2013 when she joined the forged of The Solely Manner Is Essex for its ninth collection.
She has since appeared on Celebs Go Dating and I am A Celeb, ending the latter in third place.
Mollie shot to fame within the second collection of hit BBC present The Traitors in January this 12 months, the place she was famously duped by pal and eventual winner Harry Clarke [pictured together]
A proud advocate of bowl circumstances, again in Might Mollie fronted a brand new marketing campaign about inflammatory bowel illness (IBD) as she urged individuals to banish the ‘taboo round poo’
Most just lately she has starred in her personal ITV present, My Household And Me, however earlier this month she confirmed the next series of her long-running reality series will be her last.
The present, which began life as Ferne McCann: First Time Mum and initially adopted her being pregnant and elevating her firstborn Sunday, has run for 13 collection and seven years.
The present was retitled in 2023 when Ferne welcomed her second daughter Finty.
However now she is able to pull the plug after making the ‘tough determination’ with businessman fiancé Lorri Haines and six-year previous daughter Sunday, her baby with former associate Arthur Collins.
She instructed The Sunday Mirror: ‘The purpose the place every thing modified was when Sunday really stated to me: ‘Am I well-known?’ Just a few of her mates had seen her on an advert.
‘And I used to be like: ‘Oh I do not know…’ It made me really feel uncomfortable, as a result of I do not need her to really feel she is totally different…
‘After that it felt like a complete totally different ball sport, so I went away and labored out what I used to be feeling, and it felt like the appropriate time to cease.’
She added that though Sunday has been on the present since she was born, she’d ‘by no means actually’ watched it and was ‘unaware’ of the scenario – till that query.
In March it was revealed Holly Willoughby has been supplied a profitable deal by ITV bosses to return to host Dancing On Ice subsequent 12 months in a bid to keep her at the channel.
For the primary time in 20 years the presenter is not going to be contracted for a present on the channel, leaving the door open for his or her rivals to swoop in and rent her.
Ferne shot to fame in 2013 when she joined the forged of The Solely Manner Is Essex (pictured, left, with Billie Faiers, Bobby Norris and Gemma Collins in 2014)
Revealing the information on Monday’s episode of GMB , the mother-of-two shared: ‘I am so excited, it will be an enormous problem however I am excited for the glitz and glamour of the present’
Requested if she will be able to skate, she confessed: ‘Sort of… I’ve completed Winter Wonderland and stuff like that with the youngsters however you realize the penguins? I am hunched over a type of!’
Ferne regarded unbelievable for her look on the ITV information present in a white jumper and pleated mini skirt that confirmed off her enviably toned pins
Earlier this month Ferne confirmed the subsequent collection of her long-running actuality collection, My Household & Me, will likely be her final (pictured on the present with fiancé Lorri Haines and daughters Sunday, six, and Finty, 14 months)
However The Mail on Sunday revealed that the programme will likely be again for an additional season, and that they’re already in talks with Holly about her anchoring it alongside Stephen Mulhern in a transparent signal to different broadcasters to maintain their palms off of their star.
A supply near the present stated: ‘Dancing On Ice is unquestionably coming again in 2025 and the plan is that Holly will host it.
‘Contracts are being negotiated however the chiefs love her and so they know that there are others who would like to signal her up however ITV love her and so they wish to preserve her very a lot a part of the ITV furnishings for years to return.
‘Holly has an actual fondness for the present, it actually catapulted her profession from a youngsters’s presenter into grown up tv so ITV very a lot hope that she is going to comply with the deal.’
Sources say that the higher echelons of ITV are additionally different huge exhibits that she will be able to current after she give up This Morning after 14 years final October following a plot to kidnap and homicide her because the BBC are stated to be decided to rent her to host extra of their programmes.
In the meantime, skate specialists Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean are stated to be ‘tremendous eager’ for the present to return as a result of their tour to rejoice 50 years of skating collectively will begin shortly after subsequent 12 months’s collection ends.
A pal of the Olympic champions stated: ‘Dancing On Ice will properly segway into their tour so they’re actually eager to return subsequent 12 months. All of it falls completely into place for them.’
In March it was revealed Holly Willoughby has been supplied a profitable deal by ITV bosses to return to host Dancing On Ice subsequent 12 months in a bid to maintain her on the channel
Hours earlier than Ferne’s announcement it was alleged an iconic EastEnders star has additionally signed up for Dancing On Ice.
Charlie Brooks – who is thought for her villain position in EastEnders in addition to profitable I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Right here! in 2012 – is rumoured to be becoming a member of the star-studded line-up for the upcoming instalment.
The actress, 43, is well-remembered for her epic portrayal of villain Janine Butcher within the hit BBC cleaning soap from 1999 to 2022.
She finally stated goodbye to Albert Sq. throughout EastEnders’ Christmas Day particular two years in the past.
And now, it appears the cleaning soap favorite would possibly tackle the icy problem alongside different fellow celebrities for the beloved skating present.
A supply instructed The Sun: ‘Charlie’s a superb signing. She has an enormous fanbase from EastEnders and has tons of character and feisty power. The ITV bookers hope she will be able to recreate a few of her on-screen I am a Celeb magic.
‘They’re profiting from the very fact many feminine stars have averted Strictly this 12 months amid all of the scandal. It is going to be a belting line-up.’
Charlie Brooks – who is thought for her position as Janine Butcher in EastEnders – can also be rumoured to be participating within the upcoming collection of Dancing On Ice
The actress is well-remembered for her epic portrayal of villain Janine within the hit BBC cleaning soap from 1999 to 2022