Love was in the air for a special Valentine’s Day Dancing on Ice and the show opened with all the celebrities dancing on ice to The Power of Love by Huey Lewis and the News.
The first couple on the ice were Actress Danniella Westbrook and partner Matthew Gonzalez skated to You’ve got the Love ( Florence and the Machine) scoring 20 out of 30. She said: “ I am over the moon I just love this, it’s a great show to be a part of.”
Karen Barber (scored 4) “Yes it was a new move and you did lose a few marks because of the mistake, but I love your work ethic you two give it hundred percent, such conviction when you skate I think your the dark horse in this competition, people are going to have to look out for you.”
Michael Ball (scored 4) “You look like a couple when you dance together, she looks like she is loving it. It’s so important for an audience member to see that enthusiasm, and to see that joy on the ice, and it was lovely to watch and the lifts were fabulous and itwas a shame about the little wobble there.”
Jason Gardiner (scored 4) “I absolutely agree but I am going to fine tune you now as we are half way through the competition and yes you are doing brilliantly, better then any of us expected, however there are things that you have to do to up your game.”
Actor Danny Young and skating partner Frankie Poultney skated to (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher (Jackie Wilson) and scored 17 out of 30. He said: “I enjoyed that so much.”
Jason Gardiner (scored 3.5 ) “ What it is from my point of view on a performance level is that it is still very unfinished and I keep saying this every week and that is why my marks are still the same because you still have this overall presentation where it’s unfinished. There are still a lot of things that you are still not doing in holding yourself particularly in your upper carriage .”
Nicky Slater (scored 3 ) “What I am seeing, probably from a different point of view , I am seeing the same as Jason. I am seeing an element done and you do difficult elements, you do lifts and you’re strong in them and then there is a gap. At times you skate out like you can go fast and then you stop to do the element so there is no seamlessness about it. Ice skating needs to flow from one move to another and needs to have speed, you have the ability to do that and that is why the marks are not higher, just knit it together and then the marks will go up.”
Actress Emily Atack and skating partner Fred Palascak skated to Saving All My Love For You (Whitney Houston ) and scored 13.5 out of 30. She said: “– I am disappointed but they know what they are talking about. I have struggled but it’s what the competition is all about.”
Emma Bunton (scored 2.5 ) “I’m afraid it wasn’t as good as last week, the others have a lot more context and I need to see more of that, I need you to push it a bit more.”
Karen Barber (scored 3 ) “I think the injury has really hindered your training this week we’ve had to think of new things to replace the original things , you are one of the most improved, but the performance wasn’t as strong and that was to do with the injury and nothing else.”
Michael Ball (scored 3 ) “On the plus side what you did do is you dug deep and you gave a performance but you were a bit passive in the partnership, I wanted to see more passion going into it but your are getting better and like I said the show must go on and you didn’t show it in your eyes.”
Boyzone’s Mikey Graham and partner Melanie Lambert skated to Love on a Mountain Top (Robert Knight) scoring 18.5 out of 30. Afterwards he said: “Sometimes you have good weeks and sometimes you have bad weeks and it’s about digging deep.”
Nicky Slater (scored 4 ) “Yes it was so much better than last week, not quite the same height as two weeks ago, but what I liked was the flow over the ice, the ice coverage. When you lost it and had the wobble moments you did pull it back together for the end and that’s great credit to you both.”
Emma Bunton (scored 3 ) “ Mikey I absolutely adore you, you are brilliant at what you do but I really want you to get the confidence back you had the first couple of weeks because through the whole routine for me you were looking down a lot and I want to see that gorgeous Irish charm back and I am missing that but you are great, but I want to see more performance.”
Former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies with skating partner Pavel Aubrecht skated to We Want the Same Thing (Belinda Carlisle) and scored 15 out of 30. She said: “It was great, a really fast routine and I really enjoyed it.”
Karen Barber (scored 3.5 ) “I thought it was a great routine there is a lot in there. I think you have finally accepted what Dancing on Ice is all about, for me we did turn a corner this week, not only do you enjoy the routine you now seem to be enjoying the experience, but I think those marks were lower than they should have been.
Michael Ball (scored 3 )“There is one thing that I’ve been dying to say to you Sharron are an incredible physical specimen, and if you would just beware of lifting the head up, your neck is always going forward and it ruins the lines, finish of your moves because you just glory in the way you look physically..
Jason Gardiner (scored 2.5 ) “Well the reason why I have a problem with you Sharron is because it’s mechanical it’s like almost watching an android, you don’t physically express anything, you do the movements and it’s all there and Michael is right you have a tight upper back and neck and there is no release.
Actress Hayley Tamaddon and partner Daniel Whiston skated to Endless Love (Diana Ross and Lionel Richie) scoring 26 out of 30, highest score of the series so far She said: “Thank you that’s all I can say.”
Karen Barber almost in tears after that performance (scored 5 ) “ You know when you watch a performance and yes we have to submit a mark, but that was so emotional to watch that it was beautiful I was very proud of you both.
Jason Gardiner (scored 5.5 ) “ That was quite simply sublime it swept a long from start to finish, you soften to his touch everyone was just beautifully placed I felt the love tonight from the two of you, it was spectacular.”
Michael Ball (scored 5 ) “ To see a couple connect, it was beautiful congratulations.”
GMTV’s Dr Hilary Jones with his skating partner Alexandra Schauman, skated to Higher Love (Stevie Winwood) and scored 12 out of 30. He said: “It felt great, it’s lovely to do little bit of dancing.”
Emma Bunton (scored 2 ) “I absolutely adore you and I think you have achieved wonderful things, but I don’t think the competition can really start while you’re still here.”
Nicky Slater (scored 2 ) “There were elements of Todd Carty in that program in the nicest possible well, I see you doing the movements and then you wait for Alex to catch up and then you do the next movement, so there is a comedic quality in it and some flow over the ice and there were some good points but goodness! I think you need to be competing with passion and it’s safe to me, I think you know you can hurt yourself and your not really giving yourself as much as you could.”
Karen Barber (scored 3 ) “There is a lot of effort and there is improvement and my marks show the improvement and you clapped in time.”
Hollyoaks actor Kieron Richardson and partner Brianne Delcourt skated to Don’t Know Much (Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville) and scored 19.5 out of 30. A stunned Kieron said: “I don’t get scores like that!”
Michael Ball (scored 4 ) “It was a different skater than last week, the thing he’s got to really concentrate on now, (because technically I don’t know, I think he has the moves) is the body again. It’s finding that strength in the neck, dropping the shoulders and having that attack, but the partnership is so believable, it’s lovely to look at.”
Nicky Slater (scored 4.5 ) “I think moving over the ice you definitely do, still your arms at time’s are weak but you were relating to each other and as a skating performance I was impressed. “
Gary Lucy and partner Maria Filippov skating to My Cherie Amour (Stevie Wonder) scoring 21 out of 30. He said: “It such a beautiful song so thank you for that I couldn’t of asked for a nicer song and I am happy with that.”
Nicky Slater (scored 5 ) “I was so impressed, from the start it was gentle, easy on the eye for me and you were leading your partner and dancing together. I love the way that some of the movements were seamless, it was one movement linking into the other and there was a connection and I loved it.”
Jason Gardiner (scored 3 ) “ Gary the romantic lead that you have in your back pocket - I think you sat on him and crushed him. You have one smile on your face and that’s it all the way through, yes you moved beautifully overt the ice and I get frustrated because I can see you could give us so much more but you hold back every week with the performance.”
Dr Hilary Jones was the sixth celebrity to leave the competition. Danny and Dr Hilary Jones found themselves in the bottom two with the lowest combined scores from the judges and the public vote. All the judges voted to save Danny meaning that Dr Hilary Jones left.
On hearing the news Dr Hilary Jones said “Terrific fun I’ve loved been a part of it all, I loved all the guys I’ve skated with. It was the right decision Danny was far better skater.”
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