Ben Shephard interviewed Kay Burley and Fred Palascak (who were knocked out of the competition on Saturday night) and judge Nicky Slater. First the discussion was about the overall performance to date of the competitors with Lee Sharpe and Kyran Bracken being encouraged to but in more performance, going from sportsman to performer.

Duncan James received special recognition as the most improved of the celebrities with his showmanship and natural skating skills, giving great performances. He and his partner Maria Flippox impressed all with their shimmering white outfits commented as looking like a snow prince and princess as they flowed across the ice. It was also said that Duncan related well to Maria and had both stance and speed.

Next, Judge Jason Gardiner came under fire by all at the interview with Kay saying she had nothing against him except she was very angry when he upset her child by nasty personal remarks he had made about her and that he must remember that there are children watching who would not be allowed to talk so ‘rudely’ to each other and that he should think before he says these things. She added that she saw him as a ‘pantomime bad guy’. Some of Jason’s unconstructive and vicious remarks were: ‘People vote for you to see your handsome partner or to see you take one of your many falls’ and ‘you look like a corpse on ice’. ‘Your smile makes you look demented’. ‘You probably would not even exude warmth if you were on fire.’ Etc etc. Her partner, Fred, said that these sort of destructive and cruel remarks have a bad effect on the performer. Judge Nicky stated that he preferred to be constructive in his criticism and also liked to encourage and give praise where deserved but cannot talk for another judge.

When given their ‘faces’ to stick on the picture of the person they thought would win, Fred said he should put it on Kyran because he is so proud of his wife, Melanie’s achievement with Kyran but he was putting it on the ‘under-dog’, Lee. Kay put hers on Kyran although she said we should keep our eye on Emily’s progress.

Apparently judging is made on the night’s show only, not past performance, which does make us wonder why Kay and Fred were chosen by the judges to leave and not Clare Buckfield with Andrei Lipanov, in the skate-off.