Olympic rower Sir Steve Redgrave has joined Dancing On Ice along with reality stars Mollie Pearce and Ferne McCann and Coronation Street actor Sam Aston. Sir Steve, 62, was confirmed for the 2025 series of the ITV ice skating show on Monday after McCann and Pearce. He told ITV’s This Morning that the production team has told him not to practise skating until the first official training session for the reality show.
Sir Steve also said: “There are all these people trying to persuade me now to do it, I can’t dance, I can’t skate, why am I doing this show? I’ve got no idea at all.” The five-time Olympic rowing champion dismissed a suggestion his experience would help, saying: “It ends up being people who are not very co-ordinated because it’s a repetitive sport doing the same movements over and over again.” He also said it is “like going back to being an athlete again” as he retired 24 years ago, and claimed his friends think him taking part on Dancing On Ice is a “midlife crisis”.
Sir Steve said: “I’m too old for a midlife crisis, I’m far past that end.” He added that he needs shoes made for him for skating as he is a wide size 12. Sir Steve said: “I must be closest to being one of the oldest, if not the oldest, on the show, but I’m certainly the heaviest that’s ever been on the show, 120 kilos, so that’s around 20 stone, so I’m not light, and I’ve been asking (for) somebody big that can lift me.
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