BY JASON WRIGHT (Entertainment Expert)
FOR the last few weeks, the remaining celebrities had been practicing their jumps and steps skills but now, they had to learn the spin element and then incorporate all three into the Ultimate Skills Test.
Chloe Madeley & Michael Zenzini
Skated to: Little Bird
It had been a stressful week for Chloe, with the big test looming. However, this routine was her weakest of the competition so far. A very decent effort with the skills, but there was a lack of additional presentation.
SCORES: Jason 5.5, Robin 5.5, Emma 7.5 TOTAL: 18.5 (4th)
Johnson Beharry & Jodeyne Higgins
Skated to: She Will Be Loved
A tough challenge indeed for Johnson, there was not only the matter of impressing in the test but in continuing to win Jason over. Everything came together in this performance but strangely, the marks went down as the judges believed like Chloe, he focused more on skill instead of additional content.
SCORES: Jason 4.5, Robin 5.0, Emma 5.0 TOTAL: 14.5 (7th)
Laura Hamilton & Colin Ratushniak
Skated to: Stop
Laura came into the test with streams of confidence. She eased through the skills with flying colours, executed other elements with such great ease and by merit, she won top place to herself on the leaderboard.
SCORES: Jason 8.5, Robin 8.5, Emma 8.5 TOTAL: 25.5 (1st)
Jeff Brazier & Isabelle Gauthier
Skated to: Forget You
A pattern had seemed to emerge at this point in the show as several celebrities were sacrificing the presentation of their routines in favour of concentrating on the skills. Jeff was another of those who went down this route. This was a noticeably weaker performance in comparison to recent weeks.
SCORES: Jason 5.5, Robin 5.5, Emma 5.0 TOTAL: 16.0 (6th)
Denise Welch & Matt Evers
Skated to: True Colours
Denise has really given everything in the competition and on skills week, she well and truly surprised everyone. Hard training all week paid off and she easily earned her best marks of competition. It’s more proof that she is winning the public over with her determination.
SCORES: Jason 5.5, Robin 5.5, Emma 5.5 TOTAL: 16.5 (5th)
Sam Attwater & Brianne Delcourt
Skated to: She Said
Accusations of a fake romance with partner Brianne and being given the dreaded headbanger move has made this a difficult week for Sam. A slight mistake in the headbanger routine cost him dear and Jason’s mark shoved him off top spot.
SCORES: Jason 7.5, Robin 8.5, Emma 8.5 TOTAL: 25.5 (2nd)
Kerry Katona & Dan Whiston
Skated to: Hush Hush
Dear oh dear, this is getting embarrassing! All of Kerry’s weaknesses were exposed in this routine; the fact being she can’t skate. Jason Gardiner was right; her skating level is practically extinct nothing exists at all. Kerry Katona is perhaps the worst contestant in DOI history; even Aggie Mackenzie could beat her fair and square!
SCORES: Jason 2.5, Robin 3.0, Emma 3.5 TOTAL: 9.0 (8th)
Vanilla Ice & Katie Stainsby
Skated to: Ice, Ice Baby
What is most associated with Vanilla Ice? Of course it is his hit track Ice, Ice Baby. Obviously it was a huge challenge to skate to his signature song but he absolutely made it work to easily give his best performance so far. Don’t write him off yet to make a late challenge.
SCORES: Jason 7.5, Robin 7.5, Emma 7.5 TOTAL: 22.5 (3rd)
The Result
In terms of the Ice Panel scores and public votes combined the most likely situation that was going to happen did as Kerry and Jeff ended up in the skate-off, both for the second time.
Jeff was too timid first time around and his second try was much more spot on and when Kerry slipped out of a lift in her routine, it was game over. All three judges finally gave Kerry the long overdue boot, and a one-way ticket to Majorca.
So with the inept skater gone, the question now is who is next for the chop, it is now anyone’s game for elimination and next week won’t be made any easier of course. Next week is yet another theme night, as Dancing on Ice goes global with each routine having a distinct flavour towards a certain country.
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