Dancing on Ice viewers complained that the judges were 'far too harsh' on Michelle Heaton, after she made ended up bottom of the leaderboard on Sunday night's show.
The Liberty X star was one of six celebrities to be in action as the show returned for a new series, 17 years after its first. In her first VT, Michelle revealed that she'd actually been asked to do Dancing on Ice before, but turned it down as there was 'no way' she'd have been able to do it at the height of her battle with alcohol addiction.
Michelle is now close to two years sober and stepped onto the ice with one major mission - to do her family proud, as husband Hugh Hanley and children Faith and AJ sat cheering her on in the studio audience. Ahead of her live show debut, which saw her and pro partner Lukasz Rozycki skate to Shania Twain's comeback hit Waking Up Dreaming, Michelle was given a big boost when Shania herself commented on an Instagram post to wish her well.
