Legendary EastEnders star ‘signs up’ to Dancing on Ice after winning I’m A Celebrity

An EastEnders legend is said to beryllium returning to ITV for the caller bid of Dancing On Ice, aft being crowned Queen of the Jungle connected I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! more than a decennary ago.

According to reports, Charlie Brooks volition beryllium taking to the ice, joining a rumoured enactment up of The Traitors prima Mollie Pearce, Hollyoaks histrion Chelsee Healey andFerne McCann.

The Janine Butcher actress, 43, is said to beryllium competing successful the ITV programme aft being crowned victor connected I’m A Celebrity successful 2012, with bosses hoping she’ll ‘recreate immoderate of her on-screen magic’.

A root claimed: ‘Charlie’s a superb signing.

‘She has a immense fanbase from EastEnders and has tons of property and feisty energy.

‘The ITV bookers anticipation she tin recreate immoderate of her on-screen I’m A Celeb magic.’

They added to The Sun: ‘They are making the astir of the information galore pistillate stars person avoided Strictly this twelvemonth amid each the scandal.

‘It’s going to beryllium a belting line-up.’

An ITV spokesperson told Metro.co.uk: ‘The lineup for Dancing connected Ice 2025 volition beryllium announced successful owed course.‘

This comes aft The Traitors finalist Mollie Pearce was rumoured to beryllium joining the personage fig skating contention aft winning implicit the federation contempt being tricked by winning traitor Harry Clark earlier this twelvemonth successful the vicious crippled of bluff.

Sources claimed the doorway was opened up aft Love Island prima Tasha Ghouri signed up for BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, with some women antecedently successful talks for Dancing On Ice.

‘Mollie captured the federation with her devastation erstwhile Harry brilliantly conned her connected The Traitors and she’s not enactment a ft incorrect since,’ an insider antecedently told The Sun.

‘She’s gorgeous and TV fans volition emotion the accidental to get down her arsenic she takes connected a caller competition.

‘There’s a definite irony successful ITV signing the standout prima of the BBC’s world amusement whilst the BBC instrumentality 1 of the Islanders for Strictly – but everyone’s a victor cos some girls are terrific and merit the success.’

Meanwhile, insiders besides precocious claimed Hollyoaks prima Chelsee Healey is swapping the ballroom for the skating rink, with ‘high hopes’ that her creation moves volition impressment viewers.

The Goldie McQueen actress, 36, who has besides held roles connected Waterloo Road and Casualty, appeared connected Strictly successful 2011, wherever she was partnered with Pasha Kovalev and came 2nd to Harry Judd and Aliona Vilani.

She’s present said to beryllium joining Ferne McCann connected Dancing On Ice.

A root said: ‘Chelsee is perfectly hilarious and of people incredibly glamorous. She made it to the last of Strictly backmost successful 2011 truthful determination are precocious hopes that she volition erstwhile again wow viewers with her creation moves.

‘Bosses are determined to get a sexy pistillate enactment up particularly fixed the deficiency of women connected Strictly this twelvemonth and Chelsee is 1 of the hottest soap stars retired there.

‘Everyone is precise excited to person her connected board.’

The insider added to The Sun that Chelsee ‘can’t wait’ to instrumentality to the ice.

They said: ‘Strictly was truthful agelong agone and this clip there’s the added information of performing connected ice.

‘She knows it’s going to beryllium pugnacious but she’s truly excited to get retired there.’

The archetypal sanction to beryllium rumoured to person joined the line-up was Towie prima Ferne.

A root said the 34-year-old world prima wants to ‘win implicit the public’ aft being embroiled successful a scandal.

In 2022, Ferne was heard successful leaked dependable notes calling the pistillate attacked with acerb by her ex-boyfriend Arthur Collins ‘an disfigured f*****g c**t.’

Collins, the begetter of her girl Sunday, six, was jailed for 20 years for for throwing acerb and injuring aggregate radical successful a nightclub successful 2017.

Ferne aboriginal apologised to Sophie Hall and the different victims of the 2017 onslaught but maintained the dependable notes were ‘manipulated, edited and taken retired of context.’

It has been said the I’m A Celebrity prima is hoping DOI volition springiness her the accidental to ‘knuckle down’ and alteration the tide of sentiment astir her.

A root told The Sun: ‘It’s been a unsmooth fewer years for Ferne but she has ever been an ITV star, with her roots connected Towie and past with her archetypal steps into the mainstream connected I’m A Celebrity successful 2015.

‘So Dancing connected Ice volition beryllium a accidental for her to knuckle down, enactment hard and triumph implicit the public.

‘But her casting volition rise eyebrows fixed her background.’

In 2023, Ferne addressed the ungraded connected her amusement Ferne McCann: First Time Mum and said it ‘destroyed’ her.

She said: ‘My full satellite feels similar it’s falling isolated and it’s destroying maine truthful overmuch and I can’t bash thing to hole it.

‘When I heard the dependable notes I instantly remembered who I’d sent them to but I judge they’ve since been edited to region their context.

Ferne continued: ‘Why? Because I deliberation that idiosyncratic is trying to destruct maine and inflict arsenic overmuch harm into my beingness arsenic possible.’

Since the scandal, Fern has welcomed a 2nd girl Finty successful July 2023 with her fiancé Lorri Haines, 33.

She antecedently told Metro.co.uk her commencement was ‘magical, 1 of the champion experiences of my life,’ saying it is ‘insane, incredible, that women tin bash this.’

Earlier this month, she besides revealed that she volition not beryllium returning to her world TV series, Ferne McCann: My Family and Me, aft 13 bid and 7 years connected screen, pursuing a ‘difficult decision’.

Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern are besides said to beryllium returning to contiguous the January 2025 bid of Dancing On Ice, according to reports.

Earlier this year, Holly returned to contiguous the skating contention alongside caller big Stephen, who replaced Phillip Schofield aft helium resigned from ITV having admitted to a narration with a antheral This Morning employee.

The past winners of DOI were Coronation Street histrion Ryan Thomas and nonrecreational skater Amani Fancy.

Metro.co.uk has contacted Charlie’s reps for comment.

Dancing On Ice is returning to ITV and ITVX adjacent year.

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