Somehow, in a bid to make the Sunday-evening-eating monster that is Dancing On Ice even more unpalatable, ITV have chosen to hire Michael Ball to replace Robin Cousins. The five-person judging team was overloaded anyway – I’d have been happy to have a four-person panel and more of Jason Gardiner’s classic spiteful comments!

Anyway, we’re covering Dancing On Ice live tonight – this post will have judge’s comments, a scoreboard and some of my own commentary on each act. Enjoy! And leave loads of comments!

Scoreboard

Judges scores for tonight’s show are as follows:

1. Hayley Tamaddon and Daniel Whiston – 26.0
2. Gary Lucy and Maria Filippov – 21.0
3. Daniella Westbrook and Matthew Gonzalez – 20.0
4. Kieron Richardson and Brianne Delcourt – 19.5
5. Mikey Graham and Melanie Lambert – 18.5
6. Danny Young and Frankie Poultney – 17.0
7. Sharron Davies and Pavel Aubrecht – 15.0
8. Emily Atack and Fred Palascak – 13.5
9. Hilary Jones and Alexandra Schauman – 12.0

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Michael Ball will be acting as a judge on Dancing On Ice this Sunday night.

The West End singing star will be replacing Robin Cousins on the panel, as he acts as a commentator for the BBC on the Winter Olympics. Though he has only been signed for one night, Michael may also return to judge on next week’s show as well.

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Did anyone else hear Mark Furze sing ‘Obviously’ tonight? He was out of tune and very flat the whole way through, and I didn’t think he looked very excited at all!

Martine McCutcheon commented on Mark’s tuning problems and pointed them out as an area Mark needed to work on. But in his critique of Marks performance, Michael disagreed with Martine, saying that he didn’t hear any flat notes at all.

Now either Michael Ball has severe hearing difficulties, or he was listening to his iPod during the whole song. If he had been listening to the same performance as the rest of us he would have heard a woeful, and out of tune version of a pretty catchy wee tune.