DANCING On Ice viewers will be gutted to learn they will have to wait to find out the show’s winner as tonight’s grand final has been postponed.
In a major scheduling shake-up, ITV has confirmed that they are pushing the skating competition show’s final episode back a week due to a clash with a football match tonight.
The channel’s coverage of the FA Cup quarter-final match between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool is due to kick off at 5.15pm and run for at least three hours, meaning that it will clash with Dancing on Ice, which usually commences at 6.30pm.
The finale will now next Sunday, 27 March, and to make up for the last-minute change, it’s been revealed that fans can look forward to an extra-long episode.
On last week’s episode of the show, all the remaining celebrity contestants skated twice, and two were sent home.
While viewers voted for Strictly star Brendan Cole and Regan Gascoigne to go through to the finals, Pussycat Dolls star Kimberley Wyatt battled it out in the skate-off with Olympic athlete Connor Ball and Vamps singer Kye Whyte.
After judges Jayne Torvill, Christopher Dean, Ashley Banjo and Oti Mabuse voted unanimously to save Kimberly, who had scored highest in the episode, Connor and Kye were sent home in a dramatic double elimination.
Meanwhile, host Phillip Schofield presented the show solo for the first time after Holly Willoughby was forced to skip it after testing positive with COVID-19 just hours before the show began.
A spokesperson for Dancing on Ice said: “Unfortunately, Holly Willoughby is unable to host tonight’s show after testing positive for Covid-19.
“We look forward to Holly returning for the Dancing on Ice Live Final.”
It’s believed that Holly will be back for the final, given that her self-isolation period will have ended by then.
