Dancing On Ice to need a crash helmet, but Happy Mondays star Bez is still standing. Just. No one is more shocked that he lives to fight another day than the man himself, and as he prepares to take to the ice again tonight Bez admits he feels guilty better skaters are being dumped from the show.
He even says he wouldn’t be there at all if it were a “proper skate competition”. “I can’t see me lasting too long because I am such a rubbish skater!” he admits during a chat after another gruelling training session with his professional partner Angela Egan, 34. “I feel terrible about it because if it was a proper skate competition, well, I wouldn’t even be in the competition. “But it’s just the nature of the show, unfortunately. “The only thing that makes me feel better about better skaters going out rather than me, is the final decision is with the judges in the skate-off, and they’re judging purely by skating skills. “So that makes me feel a little bit better about being really rubbish because as soon as I’m in the skate off, I’m out!” Rugby ace Ben Foden, 36, and ITV ’s Lorraine’s entertainment presenter Ria Hebden, 39, have already been frozen out after they failed to get enough votes from fans at home to keep them out of the dreaded skate-off.
But after taking to the ice in a helmet designed to look like a melon – a cheeky nod to the Happy Mondays lyric “You’re twistin’ my melon, man” – dad-of-three Bez has quickly become one of the show’s stand out stars.
At 57 he’s the oldest male celebrity competing each week and says that, along with Coronation Street legend Sally Dynevor, 58, he hopes to inspire others in their 50s to try something new. “Me and Sally, we’re in our 50s, you know what I mean?” he says.
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