Dancing On Ice fans slam show bosses for making celebrity skater look like ‘a joke’

DANCING On Ice fans person deed retired astatine telly bosses and accused them of making 1 of the skaters look "a joke" and "a plonker".

Furious viewers of the ITV amusement deed retired aft Sir Steve Redgrave, 62, made his debut successful the rink.

The Olympic champ was partnered with nonrecreational skater Vicky Ogden and they performed a regular to the 1973 opus Rock The Boat.

But they were some dressed successful sailor costumes, with Steve - who is 6ft 5in gangly - bizarrely wearing shorts teamed with bluish and achromatic stripy socks with his skates.

Taking to X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, disgruntled fans shared their annoyance aft seeing Steve's archetypal skate connected the ice.

One wrote: "Oh silly outfit for Sir Steve. Don’t marque him a joke. Everyone ballot for Steve let’s messiness up the show. They’ve acceptable him up with that outfit."

Another added: "Sir Steve has been made to look a close plonker."

A 3rd said: "Done Steve soiled determination with that outfit."

And different fumed: "Omg wtf is this lol Steve Redgrave successful them shorts."

Sir Steve is the oldest contestant to instrumentality portion successful this year's bid of Dancing On Ice.

Despite fans' concerns, the retired sportsman - who is the astir palmy antheral rower successful Olympic history aft winning 5 golden medals - helium isn't bothered astir the costumes.

Earlier this month, Steve spoke to The Sun's TV Mag and admitted what helium wears is 'the slightest of his worries'.

The dad-of-three suffers from diabetes and arthritis and said helium is much concerned astir his creation moves connected the ice than sequins.

In fact, helium had hoped his opening nighttime ensemble would beryllium "over the top".

Sir Steve said: "With the benignant of skating we’re doing, portion of it is astir being elegant connected your skates, and that doesn’t travel casual to me.

"When I archetypal signed up, they said to me: ‘What astir the sequins?’ That’s the slightest of my worries! I don’t caput that broadside of it.

"They mentioned astir the spray tan erstwhile we had our archetypal get-together. That was conscionable aft a holiday, truthful  I was reasonably good tanned.

"By the clip we get to the archetypal show, I’ll astir apt beryllium airy conscionable with the worry, truthful I’ll request immoderate spray tan."

He added: "I’m not definite however glammed  up I’ll beryllium – I’m hoping it’s implicit the top. I conscionable don’t privation radical to deliberation that’s usually however I would dress!"

Steven and Natalie are among the 2nd batch of celebrities to marque their skating debut.

The brace scored a full of 17.5 from DOI judges Christopher Dean, Jayne Torvill, Oti Mabuse and Ashley Banjo.