The wife of ice skating star Christopher Dean has claimed that his mentoring role on Dancing On Ice, was responsible for the breakdown of their marriage.
Jill Trenary-Dean has admitted that it was she who filed for divorce a year ago, after his obsession with the ITV ice skating show kept him away from their Colorado home for six months of the year.
We just love how forthright Dancing On Ice judge Jason Gardiner is. Instead of denying all knowledge of an affair between coaches Christopher Dean and Karen Barber, Gardiner has just poured some fuel on the fire.
Rumours emerged last week that former olympic champion Chris had left his wife and was now seeing married Dancing On Ice judge and coach Karen Barber.
Dancing On Ice star Christopher Dean has split from his wife of 16 years and is reportedly romancing married co-star Karen Barber.
The former Olympic champion married American skater Jill Trenary in 1994 and they lived in Colorado with their two teenage sons. Chris has recently been spending long periods of time in the UK as he worked on ITV’s Dancing On Ice and announced his marriage breakdown yesterday.
Proving that Dancing On Ice is one of the most dangerous reality TV shows around, Jayne Torvill almost managed to slice off Christopher Dean’s thumb in rehearsals this week.
As the pair were practicing the notorious headbanger move, which sees the male skater swing his partner up and down by her feet, Jayne’s skate blade caught Chris’s thumb and sliced him pretty deeply.
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have said that this year’s Dancing On Ice will be a great competition!
The pair have trained all 14 celebrities for this year’s series and said that the mix of different personalities will make for an interesting battle.
“I think this year’s cast are going to be different personalities, they are going to have different challenges and they are going to have different problems. But at the same time, I think they are going to give us a good competition this year,” Torvill told the show’s official website.
Ice Skating legend, Christopher Dean has been told that he won’t be able to perform when Dancing On Ice returns to ITV1 this month after sustaining a shoulder injury.
Christopher seriously injured his shoulder whilst filming for the show’s Christmas Special and was rushed into hospital for surgery. He is now recovering and will be able to appear and mentor on this years Dancing On Ice however we will miss out on his and Jayne Torvills stunning performances until he is back on top form.
An insider told The Sun: “Everyone was really worried as he is a key part of the show.
Former Olympic champion, Christopher Dean, has become the latest Dancing On Ice casualty.
The skating coach was practicing his new routine for this weeks show with partner, when the blade of her skate sliced his arm.
Christopher said: “The blood squirted out like a fountain. But I got patched up and went back on to the ice.”
A source told The Sun: “Paramedics were called and Chris got emergency treatment. It was a shock but he’s fine.”
They’ve enjoyed an incredibly successful career spanning several decades, won countless medals and even counted Princess Diana, Placido Domingo, Gene Kelly and Jack Nicholson amongst their fan base. So, when did Christopher Dean realise he and Jayne Torvill were such huge stars?
“When it became harder to go to Marks & Sparks and buy my socks,” he laughs.
And it’s that very British sense of modesty combined with their astonishing talent that has made Torvill and Dean arguably the best-loved and most well-known stars in their field.
Jayne and Chris were both born into working class Nottingham families: Jayne in 1957, Chris a year later. Jayne first took to the ice
on a school trip to the local skating rink aged eight. It all came fairly naturally and the next day she was back. Chris got his first pair of skates for Christmas aged ten, and after two weeks of stomping around on his mum’s linoleum, he was finally taken to the city to try them out on the ice.“It wasn’t an epiphany or anything,” he remembers.“I just started doing it and I kept on doing it.”
Having both discovered that they quite enjoyed skating Jayne and Chris became frequent visitors to the rink,both teaming up with a partner and taking lessons. Success came quickly, with Jayne becoming a British Senior Pairs Champion and Chris winning the British Junior Ice Dance competition.
It was through their skating teacher that Jayne and Chris were first paired up as potential dancing partners, at the age of 16 and 15 respectively, after both being ditched by their previous partners.“We got on well right away. I think it was because we’d both been dumped,” laughs Jayne. Read more & comment »
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