Dancing on Ice's Jayne Torvill shares health issues ahead of retiring with Christopher Dean

Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean person announced their status from skating, with them acceptable to execute for the last clip connected unrecorded TV connected the caller bid of ITV's Dancing connected Ice

Renowned crystal skater Jayne Torvill has spoken astir her wellness up of retiring alongside Christopher Dean.

Jayne, 67, and Christopher, 66, person been skating unneurotic for decades but person announced that they volition soon beryllium retiring. They are acceptable to skate for the last clip connected unrecorded TV successful the caller bid of Dancing connected Ice, which began past week.

Ahead of their retirement, the Olympic golden medalists person been reflecting connected their careers successful interviews. Jayne shared precocious that the brace person "never truly stopped skating," teasing that it has kept them "fit and healthy". She nevertheless revealed that determination are "aches and pains" each truthful often.

Speaking to Prima magazine, arsenic reported by the Express, she said: "We've ne'er truly stopped skating, and if we're successful a play erstwhile we're not grooming together, we some usage the gym rather a batch and support acceptable that way." Jayne said that adjacent aft periods of having not skated, their abilities are "back" wrong 20 minutes of returning to the crystal and are "always there".

Jayne added: "It's a spot similar riding the motorcycle story. But we've done it our full lives and I deliberation that's a large plus successful keeping america acceptable and healthy, though determination are aches and pains each present and then."

Jayne and Christopher's vocation unneurotic has included winning a golden medal each astatine the Winter Olympics successful Sarajevo successful 1984 pursuing their show to Maurice Ravel's Boléro. The pals person besides been world champions.

Speaking to the Mirror astir their retirement, Christopher said successful an interrogation published recently: "This volition beryllium our past unrecorded skate - present connected Dancing connected Ice. We're doing our past circuit this twelvemonth arsenic good truthful erstwhile we've finished our past skate connected tour, we won't beryllium performing again. There are tons of endings." He added: "We've been doing it a agelong clip and radical our property shouldn't beryllium doing it now. So we're conscionable blessed that we tin inactive bash it."

Although they volition nary longer execute connected Dancing connected Ice, the brace are acceptable to stay connected the judging sheet of the ITV amusement alongside Diversity's Ashley Banjo and erstwhile Strictly Come Dancing prima Oti Mabuse. Jayne has teased that the amusement feels similar their "baby".

She told us: "Dancing connected Ice feels similar our babe due to the fact that we were approached by ITV successful the aboriginal days and we came up with this format unneurotic of however it mightiness work." She added: "We didn't cognize overmuch astir TV but they didn't cognize however skating works truthful together, the programme developed and it's large that we were determination from the beginning."

Their last tour, Torvill & Dean: Our Last Dance, is acceptable to tally from April to July. The adjacent occurrence of Dancing connected Ice volition aerial connected Sunday astatine 6.30pm connected ITV and ITVX.

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