SHE'S bravely putting her body on the line to compete in Dancing On Ice - and it's all for her two young daughters. Hollyoaks star Chelsee Healey, 36, has been partnered with pro skater Andy Buchanan for the 2025 series and is hard at work learning to twizzle around the rink. The actress isn't holding back, declaring "I'm game for anything", and just wants to make her girls Cookie, 11 months, and Coco, seven, proud.
But she also has fears that attention from the primetime show's big audience could lead to some nasty online comments aimed at her and her family. It's something she's had to deal with in the past from disgusting racist comment aimed at her eldest daughter on Twitter , to mum-shaming posts following the birth of her second child. Speaking exclusively to The Sun on behalf of Ali Express , she said: "I think that's always in the back of my head.
I'm older now, I'm definitely wiser, my headspace is happy and content in my life that anybody that could say anything negative towards me wouldn't really affect me. "The thing that really upsets me is when they direct it at my children, that's the one thing that you know scares me a little bit coming into Dancing On Ice is that they can be targeted." Chelsee doesn't have any past skating experience and is refusing to get ahead of herself by harbouring dreams of reaching the final, but she is determined to give her all and try all manner of daring maneuvers.
"I'm up for anything," she said. "I love a challenge and I think I'.