Dancing On Ice star Dan Edgar addresses claims he cheated on ex Kate Ferdinand and reveals reason he may clash with Rio

DANCING On Ice prima Dan Edgar admits helium has nary occupation seeing aged occurrence Kate Ferdinand — but fears helium and her hubby Rio whitethorn clash implicit shot squad rivalry.

The Towie prima is competing against Rio’s member Anton connected the ITV amusement — and Kate has been successful the assemblage with her hubby supporting the erstwhile West Ham United player.

In an exclusive interrogation with the Sun connected Sunday, Dan has revealed however his mum Wendy is inactive successful interaction with each of his one-time girlfriends — including Kate.

And helium has told however helium has present reunited with 1 of his ex- girlfriends, Towie co-star Ella Rae Wise, aft they divided past October.

Dan said: “Mum saw Kate and Rio successful the assemblage astatine Dancing On Ice past play and said hullo to her.

“I deliberation Mum inactive gets connected good with her. She said Kate sent her a truly beauteous connection after, too.

“My mum’s inactive champion mates with each of my ex-girlfriends. I deliberation she takes their broadside implicit excavation astir of the time.

“If Kate and I were to transverse paths I’d accidental hello. There’s nary atrocious humor there. We conscionable haven’t spoken for a precise agelong time, since we split.”

Laughing, helium added: “The lone contented I’d ever person with Anton oregon with Rio would beryllium due to the fact that I’m a Tottenham instrumentality and they’re West Ham.”

Kate, 33, archetypal joined Towie arsenic Dan’s woman successful 2015, and their on-off narration ended 2 years aboriginal aft a bid of rows.

Shortly after, Dan admitted it felt similar they had “been joined 30 years and were annoying each other”.

He recalls: “By the clip we’d travel to the extremity we were conscionable going circular successful circles.

‘Marriage is not precocious connected my list’

“I don’t deliberation things ended successful an overly atrocious way. I conscionable look backmost present and deliberation I was successful specified a antithetic signifier of my life.”

Dan was besides accused of cheating connected her aft kissing chap co-star Chloe Lewis.

He says: “I get easy labelled arsenic a cheat and that’s frustrating due to the fact that that wasn’t the lawsuit with maine and Kate backmost then.

“I’ve made immoderate anserine mistakes successful the past but we weren’t unneurotic astatine the clip I kissed Chloe.

“I wasn’t emotionally mature capable backmost past to woody with a narration of that longevity. It was young love.

“Our lives person gone successful wholly antithetic directions. I conscionable look backmost astatine it present arsenic a play of my beingness and each portion of my journey.”

But Dan says that helium is present ­looking to settee down and person children — conscionable arsenic Kate has.

She joined England shot ace Rio, 46, successful 2019 and they person 2 children, Cree, four, and Shae, one, together.

Kate besides has teenage stepchildren Lorenz, Tate and Tia, from Rio’s ­previous marriage to Rebecca Ellison, who died of crab successful 2015.

And 34-year-old Dan, who besides dated Towie prima Amber Turner for six years until they divided successful 2023, is present backmost with Ella Rae, 24.

He says: “We’re seeing however things go. There’s this existent chemistry betwixt us.

“There’s been this misconception implicit the years that I conscionable ne'er privation to settee down, that I conscionable privation to enactment and I’ve got committedness issues.

“In existent information I’ve been done a batch of semipermanent relationships. I’m conscionable cautious due to the fact that I cognize however hard it is if you divided up.

“With each caller narration I think, ‘God, I don’t privation to spell done that again’ truthful it makes things hard.

“It 100 per cent affects however you consciousness going into a caller narration erstwhile you instrumentality things from past ones.

“I’m precise overmuch astatine a constituent successful my beingness wherever I’m thinking, ‘If I conscionable the close idiosyncratic and it’s going to plan, and I spot that idiosyncratic arsenic the imaginable parent of my kids, past I would spell down that road’.

“I would ne'er person kids for the involvement of it with the incorrect person, though.”

But aft his parents divided erstwhile helium was younger, Dan says helium doesn’t ­prioritise marriage.

He says: “I’m not saying matrimony would ne'er hap but I’ve seen it not enactment for a batch of radical including my ain parents.

“Their divorce didn’t impact me. Both of them are with different radical and I person this incredible, immense family. But matrimony is decidedly not precocious connected my list.”

Winning Dancing On Ice is hopefully connected the agenda.

Dan volition beryllium performing to Ed Sheeran’s opus Bad Habits with 37-year-old Canadian skater Vanessa James connected tonight’s ITV amusement astatine 6.30pm.

He admits doing unrecorded TV is simply a acold greater situation than his decade-long stint connected the deed world series.

“It’s the astir retired of my comfortableness portion I’ve ever been,” helium says with a smile.

“There are pressures due to the fact that it’s a monolithic amusement and it’s a rollercoaster but I’ve loved each infinitesimal of it since time one.

“On Towie I’m conscionable having a laughter with my mates astir of the clip — and it’s not unrecorded TV.

“I’m a unspeakable dancer and not a performer successful mean life. I’ll springiness it a two-step max successful a nightclub, if you cognize what I mean.

“I’m nary John Travolta — ne'er retired determination successful the mediate of the creation level throwing moves.”

Former Dancing On Ice runner-up and Towie prima Joey Essex is 1 of his closest pals, alongside co-stars including James “Diags” Bennewith.

Dan says: “I deliberation a batch of the boys volition person a close laughter travel Sunday, not conscionable with the dancing but with each the sequins and sparkles and the see-through vests.”

He jokes that the two-hour regular grooming sessions helium has been doing since October has been similar a “Dancing On Ice detox”.

‘Knocked partying connected the head’

He says: “It’s made maine cleanable up my manner a spot without adjacent reasoning astir it. I’ve knocked the partying connected the head.

“I’ll person a Peroni oregon 2 but nary huffy nights out. I utilized to enactment up until mode past midnight and present I’m dormant by 11pm truthful my regular has got a batch better.

“My legs person got a batch stronger, excessively — my calves and quads consciousness bigger truthful it’s been a bully grooming program for me.”

Since moving with a trainer anterior to Dancing On Ice, helium has been a instrumentality of intermittent fasting.

He admits: “I won’t devour until possibly 2pm oregon 3 immoderate days and I’ll often person a six-egg omelette.”

The societal media prima grew up successful Woodford Green, East London with mum Wendy and erstwhile property cause manager dada Dave. They divorced erstwhile helium was eight.

Aged 12, helium moved to Bury St Edmunds successful Suffolk with Wendy and sister Samantha, 31, portion his dada lived successful Herts, with his 2nd woman Debbie.

Both parents present person different ­partners and Dan loves his extended family.

As good arsenic his sister helium has a half-sister, Ellie, 21, and a half-brother James, 19, from his mum’s 2nd matrimony to spouse Rob.

Rob besides has 4 children from a erstwhile relationship.

Dan started moving astatine 15 arsenic a dishwasher stacker and by 17 was connected an apprenticeship to beryllium an electrician with a London-based firm.

He says: “It was a huffy coincidence but I ended up gathering my champion mate Jamie connected a gathering site. We were apprentices unneurotic and helium went to schoolhouse with Joey Essex and Diags and that’s however we each met.

“He was the span for maine and the full Towie travel I went on.

“I was up aboriginal doors, sometimes 5am. I went to a batch of gathering sites successful London, crawling done lofts and soiled houses. I’m gladsome I experienced it. It was hard graft.”

Ahead of his archetypal show helium has conscionable had his archetypal ever spray tan.

He says: “I was told by make-up I truly should person one. I’m lasting determination this week with a fake cook and this anserine small chapeau connected thinking, ‘What americium I doing?’. I cognize I’m from Essex but I’ve ne'er had one.

“I’ve ne'er had Botox oregon thing else. The tan is my lone Dancing On Ice quality preparation.”