Dancing on Ice Season 17 Episode 01 Description
Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern present the return of the ice-dancing contest as Anton Ferdinand, Charlie Brooks, Chelsee Healey, Chris Taylor, Dan Edgar, Ferne McCann, Josh Jones, Michaela Strachan, Mollie Pearce, Sam Aston and Steve Redgrave compete to become champion of the rink with the help of some of the world’s leading skating professionals. Oti Mabuse and Ashley Banjo are on the judging panel with Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, who will perform a new routine.
Group performance: “Alive and Kicking” — Simple Minds
Torvill & Dean performance: “Let the Good Times Roll” — Sam Butera & The Witnesses
In a change to the format for this series, there was no skate-off, instead the couple with the lowest combined judges’ score and public vote was eliminated from the competition. Only half of the celebrities performed this week. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
| Couple | Judges’ scores | Total score |
Music | Result | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banjo | Mabuse | Torvill | Dean | ||||
| Sam & Molly | 6.5 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 27.0 | “That’s Not My Name” — The Ting Tings | |
| Ferne & Brendyn | 6.5 | 7.0 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 26.5 | “Somewhere Only We Know” — Lily Allen | |
| Chelsee & Andy | 5.5 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 22.0 | “Crazy in Love” — Beyoncé, feat. Jay-Z | |
| Anton & Annette | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 26.0 | “Beggin'” — Måneskin | |
| Michaela & Mark | 7.5 | 8.0 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 30.5 | “Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love” — Cole Porter | |
| Chris & Vanessa B. | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 24.0 | “You Make My Dreams” — Hall & Oates | |
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Dancing on Ice Show Summary
Dancing on Ice is a reality series in which celebrities and their professional partners figure skate in front of a panel of judges.
Each week the celebrities and their partners perform a live ice dance routine. The judges judge each performance and give a score, depending on the performance. These total scores then create a leaderboard which combines with the public vote in order to determine the two lowest placed couples. As this is the case, the pair with the lowest score from the judges can avoid being in the bottom two if the public vote for them.
Once the scores and votes are combined to form the final leaderboard for that week’s show, the two/three couples at the bottom compete in a final showdown known as the “Skate Off”, where they perform their routine again. Once the couples have performed their routines for the judging panel, the judges decide on who deserves to stay and cast their votes, based on their second performance. The couple with the most votes from the judges receives a place in the following week’s show, while the couple with the fewest votes leaves the competition.
