Dancing on Ice star ‘will not return’ for 2024 final after failing to accept ITV invite

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A Dancing on Ice star has declined to accept an invite to seem throughout the 2024 final.

On Sunday (10 March), the most recent collection of the ITV skating competitors will draw to a detailed, with Adele Roberts, Greg Rutherford, Miles Nazaire and Ryan Thomas competing for the trophy.

As is the norm with earlier finales, the collection will welcome again this yr’s crop of eradicated contestants, which embrace Amber Davies, Eddie the Eagle and Ricky Hatton, who made headlines after “punching” the present’s co-host Stephen Mulhern in a humorous skit.

However, one contestant, S Club singer Hannah Spearritt, has declined to accept an invite to seem, with an insider on the channel telling The Independent: “Naturally we’d love Hannah to be a part of Sunday’s final and skate alongside the other cast members of 2024 but as yet, have not received confirmation from Hannah or her reps that she will be taking part in the show.”

While contestants usually get to skate once more for an opportunity to save themselves from elimination, Spearritt was not given the prospect to accomplish that, and was as an alternative hurriedly eradicated from the present within the second week based mostly on choose’s scores and public votes alone.

At the time, viewers complained concerning the change in format, with a number of individuals urging ITV to make the episodes longer so the skate-off isn’t forfeited. One particular person commented on X/Twitter: “I’ve never seen anything more rushed in all my life.”

The Independent has contacted Spearritt for remark.

Spearritt, who mentioned she was “disappointed” by her early departure, suffered a fall forward of her elimination from the present. Addressing her followers earlier than the episode started, she mentioned in an Instagram video: “The show starts in three hours, I’ve had a fall. It is just a reminder that it is quite a dangerous thing that we’re doing.”

This yr’s Dancing on Ice marked Holly Willoughby’s return to TV after a three-month hiatus; the previous This Morning presenter stop the breakfast present final October, within the wake of co-host Phillip Schofield’s departure in May.