As Dancing on Ice returned to TV screens on Sunday evening, Holly Willoughby made her comeback after a three-month break. The presenter welcomed her new co-host, Stephen Mulhern, who is replacing Phillip Schofield. There had been rumors that Willoughby would also leave the competition when she quit This Morning in October, but ITV later confirmed she would continue to host the show.
Willoughby and Mulhern first worked together on children’s show Ministry of Mayhem and have also briefly hosted the skating competition together in 2022 after Schofield tested positive for Covid-19. When ITV announced the new presenter line-up at the end of last year, it said their reunion marked “the start of an exciting year for the show”. Earlier last week, Willoughby teased her return to TV screens by posting a photo of her Dancing on Ice script on Instagram.
The line-up also features celebrities such as Olympic gold medallist Greg Rutherford, actor Ryan Thomas, ex-boxing champion Ricky Hatton, and Hannah Spearitt from S Club 7. Judges Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Ashley Banjo, and Oti Mabuse are also back on the show.
Willoughby announced in October that she was quitting ITV show This Morning after 14 years “for me and my family”. A man was later charged with soliciting to commit murder over an alleged plot to kidnap the TV presenter.
Schofield earlier hosted both This Morning and Dancing on Ice alongside Willoughby, but left ITV last year after admitting he had an affair with a younger male colleague and lied to cover it up
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