The gorgeous Donal MacIntyre is all set to release a book about his time on ITV’s Dancing On Ice.

The Irish journalist came in second place on this years series and said his new book ‘From Beginner To Bolero’ is a light hearted look at his time on the show.

He said: “It is a kind of light-hearted whimsical diary on my time on the ice – it’s kind of really a travel book more than anything, about my times, while I was training for Dancing On Ice, around the world.”

MacIntyre revealed he’s also working on a few other projects.

“I’ve been working on my radio stuff and writing some books and articles and doing some work over in Ireland so generally busy paying the mortgage,” he said.

Dancing On Ice runner up Donal MacIntyre and his wife have been attacked by friends of a Chelsea football hooligan he exposed nine years ago.

Donal and his wife were drinking in a wine bar when four men set upon him. His wife tried to help and received a punch for her trouble.

Donal told The Sun: “I’ve had kidnapping threats, been assaulted before, had my car trashed and I’ve had to move many times.

“I’ll take those slings and arrows, but it crosses a line when my wife gets caught in the crossfire.

“They launched an assault by punching me. My wife tried to protect me when I was on the floor.

“They were trying to get me, missed me and then got her.” She suffered bruising to her face, arms and legs. He added: “She is extremely distressed.”

Dancing On Ice runner up Donal MacIntyre, has begged his local council to build him a new ice rink so he can continue to practice his skating.

A famous rink where Torvill and Dean once practised was knocked down and never rebuilt, a fact which leaves Donal devastated.

Donal, who lives in Richmond, South West London, told The Sun: “Many people started their careers there, including all the judges on the show — all have fond memories.

“The ice rink was knocked down and replaced by riverside flats, and not rebuilt, which was the plan.”

Not really a shock result but former Brookside star, Ray Quinn, has won Dancing On Ice 2009.

Ray was joined in tonight’s final by Jessica Taylor and Donal MacIntyre. Jessica was first to be voted out, visibly upset at not being able to skate her Bolero routine.

Donal and Ray then went head to head and though Ray was technically perfect and superior, I personally thought Donal’s routine had more soul.

I bet when they were about to announce the results Ray’s X Factor experience flashed before his eyes. It wasn’t that long ago after all, when he had the winners title of that show snatched away by Leona Lewis.

The three remaining contestants on ITV’s Dancing On Ice have had a rough week as they practice for the show’s final this Sunday night.

The Sun reports that Ray Quinn fainted whilst practising his wire routine and needed oxygen before he could continue. “He was in a bad way on the high wire as he suffers from motion sickness,” a source told the paper.

Jessica Taylor ended up in floods of tears as she had difficulties grasping her version of Torville and Dean’s Bolero. Maybe she’ll get lucky and be the first contestant voted off on Sunday night, meaning she wouldn’t have to perform the routine.

To top it all off Donal McIntyre has sustained even more brusing after a lift went wrong with his partner Florentine Houdiniere.

“Everyone was thinking ‘is this jinxed’?” an ITV insider said, “So little was going right.”

Dancing On Ice contestant Donal MacIntyre has revealed that he has no desire to win the series in Sunday nights final.

Speaking at a press conference in London, Donal said: “I don’t want to win. That’s not my journey… for Ray and Jessica I think it probably is they want to win… For me it is only about enjoying the ride… I shouldn’t be here.

“My motivation to be in the final is to be the best I can be… Trying to win is something that’s outside your control.”

Donal added: “If I don’t get to do the bolero I won’t be too disappointed because it requires me to throw myself on my bruised bum and hip at speed, in that classic ending.”

Donal MacIntyre wowed the Dancing On Ice judges last night and was awarded his best score ever on the show.

The TV hardman managed to perform a spellbinding routine along with his new partner….a broom! All that and he had a bruise that covered half his leg as you can see from the picture above.

I have to say that Donal is by far my favourite contestant on this years ITV series. He improves week by week and the show really has been a journey for him. The fact that he is absolutely gorgeous…a real man if you know what I mean….doesn’t hurt either

Donal MacIntyre has hit out at claims that his journalistic credibility is not being undermined by his appearance on ITV’s Dancing On Ice.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, MacIntyre explained: “I can’t imagine why anyone would think that learning from Torvill and Dean, two of the greatest cultural icons in the world, would be in any way demeaning.”

Asked what attracted him to the ITV1 skating competition, he replied: “I was shanghaied into this by my wife and two daughters. There is no, ‘Bring your Daughters to Work Day’ when your job is exposing criminals, so I was very keen to do a show where my girls could actually see Daddy at work.”

Dancing On Ice competitor, Donal MacIntyre, has admitted that he doesn’t expect to last much longer on the ITV reality TV show.

The investigative reporter, told MSN: “Well, I have been an endangered species from the very first edition of the show, I survived that so I am hoping that my evolutionary progress in the ice skating tree of life will bring me through a couple more shows.”

“There is no chance of me winning it,” he aded, “but I hopefully won’t either kill myself of anybody else by the end of the show.

“It’s great, it’s been lots and lots of fun. I spend the day stealing Christopher Dean’s digestive biscuits and playing rugby with Ellery Hanley on ice.”

Donal MacIntyre is hoping to pirouette through on Sunday’s night Dancing On Ice. Surviving a skate off against ex-footballer Graham Le Saux, he enlisted the help of a local ballet company to teach him how to dance.

And the young troupe (including his two daughters, Allegra, aged 6 and Tiger aged 21 months) give the investigative journalist some dance tips to help with his latest routine and Donal is hoping to be tutu good for his the opposition this week.

Donal is hoping to make it a double celebration if he gets through on Sunday as he also celebrates his 43rd Birthday.