ITV has revealed the first celebrity to join the Dancing On Ice 2025 line-up.
Ferne McCann announced on today’s Good Morning Britain she would be swapping reality TV for the ice rink.
The 34-year-old told presenters Susanna Reid, 53, and Ed Balls, 57, she was ‘so excited’ about her new gig.
‘It’s going to be a huge challenge but I’m excited for the glitz and glamour of the show,’ the First Time Mum star added.
A source had previously claimed Ferne had signed up for Dancing On Ice to ‘win over the public’ after being embroiled in a scandal.
In 2022, Ferne was heard in leaked voice notes calling the woman attacked with acid by her ex-boyfriend Arthur Collins ‘an ugly f*****g c**t.’
Collins, the father of her daughter Sunday, six, was jailed for 20 years for for throwing acid and injuring multiple people in a nightclub in 2017.
Ferne later apologised to Sophie Hall and the other victims of the 2017 attack but maintained the voice notes were ‘manipulated, edited and taken out of context.’
It was claimed the I’m A Celebrity star hopes DOI will give her the chance to ‘knuckle down’ and change the tide of opinion about her.
A source told The Sun: ‘It’s been a rough few years for Ferne but she has always been an ITV star, with her roots on Towie and then with her first steps into the mainstream on I’m A Celebrity in 2015.
‘So Dancing on Ice will be a chance for her to knuckle down, work hard and win over the public.
‘But her casting will raise eyebrows given her background.’
More to follow.
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