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Tom Vigar

Who is Jayne Torvill? Nottingham born Winter Olympic gold medallist set to return to Dancing on Ice as judge

Nottingham's Jayne Torvill is expected to return as a judge on Dancing on Ice when the new series starts in January 2023. Fans of the show are already getting excited with the full celebrity line-up now announced - but who is the East Midlands ice skating star who'll be judging their moves?

Jayne Torvill was born in Clifton, Nottingham, in 1957. She fell in love with ice skating as a child before meeting her long time dance partner, Christopher Dean, also from Nottinghamshire, in 1975.

The pair went on to break the Russian dominance of ice dancing, taking the gold medal at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics - the first time the event had been won by a non-Russian couple. They returned to the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994, this time taking bronze, making Jayne one of the oldest figure skating Olympic medallists.

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