THIS year’s Dancing on Ice semi-final will feature just 12 minutes of skating to fill a two-hour slot. The injury and illness-hit ITV show has just four celebrities left standing — former Olympian Colin Jackson, 54, rapper Lady Leshurr, 32, Faye Brookes, 33, and Capital DJ Sonny Jay, 27.
Each of them will perform two 90-second routines as they vie for a place in the rescheduled finale a week on Sunday. It leaves producers with the unenviable task of spinning it out into two hours of prime-time telly.
A source said: “With the reduced numbers, there’s going to be a lot of filling for time.” The show has been dogged by a spate of celebrity withdrawals — three with injuries and two following coronavirus infections.
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