Dancing On Ice chaos as show suffers major technical blunder caused by mistake

Dance on Ice judge Christopher Dean made a major mistake by causing some problems for the show today.

The ITV star, his skating partner Jayne Torvill, Oti Mabuse, a former Strictly Come Dancing star, and diversity dancer Ashley Banjo are currently members of the judging panel. Despite having judged the show for years, however, Dean, 66, made an unmissable gaffe.

While judging, Dean accidentally put the wrong number on his board, incorrectly showing 8.5. He quickly made it clear that he wanted to vote a full point higher and that some work would have to be done in the background to correct the error. He said as he acknowledged his error, “This is going to mess them up upstairs because I put 8.5 but I meant it.”

Since winning gold at the 1984 Winter Olympics, Torvill and Dean have been renowned as heroes for their national heroes, and they were devastated when they made the announcement that they are retiring from performing. Despite deciding to call it a day on the physical side, however, they’ve made it clear they’re not leaving the skating world or the beloved show.

Referencing his age and the duration of their careers, Christopher shared: “We’ve been doing it a long time and people our age shouldn’t be doing it now, so we’re just happy that we can still do it”.

He shared with The Sun in a heartfelt interview that “Dancing on Ice will be playing their final live performance this year.” So once we’ve finished our last skate on the tour, we won’t be performing again”.

Despite hanging up their skates, Jayne, 67, and Christopher will continue to be a part of Dancing on Ice as judges. They assured viewers that they would continue to support and mentor the next generation of ice dancers.

40 years after their rise to stardom, the pair made their decision to stop performing in an exclusive interview with the Mirror last year. Chris said, “I think there will come a time when you know,” before deciding to bring things to a close. Although we’re no longer spring chickens, we’re still able to do it to the extent that we feel happy about it, but that will change.

“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’ll have a sense of pride as well, I think, of what we’ve done. I believe that as we reflect on the situation, we will see it instead of in a sad way.

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Source: Mirror