It has gone 9.30am, but Jayne Torvill hasn’t managed to get dressed yet and so apologises for keeping her Zoom camera firmly off. “It takes a long time when you only have one arm,” she explains, laughing with characteristic Torvill cheerfulness.
For the past couple of weekends, the skating star has appeared on the judging panel of ITV ’s Dancing on Ice in a sling studded in sequins to match her frock.
“We call it the bling sling!” her skating partner of 50 years, Chris Dean, interrupts from his own camera.
