EVER since Dancing on Ice made its debut on ITV in 2006, hapless celebrity amateurs have attempted elegant figure skating with various degrees of success.
Every year celebrity contestants seem to skid into trouble, splitting their costumes and injuring themselves on the ice.
In the dance off Pammy’s boobs fell out of her dress as she stumbled[/caption]
This Sunday, Dancing On Ice is due to crown its seventeenth winner, with Michaela Strachen favourite to take the crown.
But almost every series has been plagued with embarrassing moments – from wardrobe malfunctions to shocking falls.
Here we look at the cringe-making moments that kept us glued to the ITV show.
Pammy’s flash dance
Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson was voted off Dancing On Ice in 2013 after suffering an excruciating wardrobe malfunction.
During the dance-off with her professional partner Matt Evers, the actress’ tight dress failed to contain her ample cleavage.
She was one of the biggest celebs to ever compete in the show when she signed onto compete in the eighth series of the competition.
Despite a decent score from the judges, she failed to impress the viewers at home with her skating ability, as she found herself in bottom two in the first week.
However, her second performance did not go to plan as she stumbled into a major malfunction when her dress fell off, and it was game over.
Fortunately the wardrobe team was prepared for disaster and Pamela, 57, was wearing matching white and silver nipple covers under her frock to protect her modesty.
It was just as well since her right breast almost completely escaped from the tight dress during the performance.
Joey’s awkward snog
Joey Essex and Vanessa Bauer appeared to confirm their relationship with a snog[/caption]
Towie star Joey Essex shocked TV audiences in 2023 when he leaned in for a toe-curling attempt at a smooch with dance partner Vanessa Bauer at the end of their performance.
The pair had been linked together off screen too, but never confirmed or denied their real life romance.
Joey, 34, appeared to confirm what was going on behind the scenes as he attempted to plant a kiss on her lips.
But Vanessa laughed and leaned away uncomfortably at the last second.
The GC hits the floor
The GC hit the deck after losing her grip on Matt Evers in 2019[/caption]
Series 11 did not go well for Gemma[/caption]
Gemma also got into a furious row with head judge Jason Gardiner[/caption]
Towie fans rejoiced when Gemma Collins signed up for the eleventh series of the show in 2019.
But amid rumours of her diva-like backstage behaviour that year, Gemma also had a furious bust up with judge Jason Gardiner and 83 angry viewers complained to Ofcom when the TOWIE star accused the judge of being ‘a bully’.
What had started as a dream, turned into a nightmare for the reality TV star as rumours swirled surrounding her behaviour off set, thanks to comments made by judge Jason Gardiner.
On the week that Gemma performed an underwhelming routine to Diamond’s Are A Girl’s Best Friend, Jason gave her blistering criticism afterwards.
But Gemma did not take his comments lying down, as the pair came to blows when the reality star accused the choreographer of “selling stories” to the press about her.
She went on to blame him for her lack of confidence on the ice too.
When Jason tried to fight back, she completely dismissed the judge as she loudly exclaimed: “Boring … Next,” starting a shouting match which left the hosts, Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, forced to step in.
The following week, Gemma, 44, gave it her all as she tried to up her game for a more graceful skate to Celine Dion’s romantic ballad, It’s All Coming Back to Me Now.
However, she was left devastated as she slipped and fell to the ice in the most dramatic way, leaving her motionless on the ground for a split second.
Bum deal
Last year, former Brookside actress Claire Sweeney, 53, was left red-faced after she fell and gave skating veterans Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean an eyeful of her bum.
Following the super awkward incident she recalled: “I’m trying to be cool.
“I get in the dressing room and I’m hyperventilating and then I catch myself in the mirror and my leggings are ripped from the top of my bum to the bottom.
“I’d been skating around with my bum hanging out! Literally my bum hanging out.
“I just thought I’ve got to own this.”
Claire Sweeney’s leggings had an embarrassing hole in the bum[/caption]
Claire Sweeney and partner Colin Grafton styled it out in Series 16[/caption]
Actress Claire was mortified when she flashed her bum at the judges[/caption]
All on his Todd
Former EastEnders star Todd Carty was branded the John Sergeant of Dancing on Ice after he bungled his routine as badly as the veteran news reporter had done during his notorious stint on Strictly Come Dancing.
EastEnders actor Todd had an unforgettable run during the fourth series in 2009.
His first two routines failed to impress the judges, but it was during week three when he lost total control.
The former Grange Hill star stumbled and then, in a panic, completely slid out of vision away from the cameras into the backstage area.
Todd Carty’s accidental crash left Susie Lipanova on her own[/caption]
Todd Carty had no idea how to stop[/caption]
Todd was a contestant in 2014[/caption]
After Todd, 61, spun out of control, he quickly realised he had no idea how to stop himself.
The actor skidded off stage down a tunnel and left his professional partner, Susie Lipanova to finish the routine alone on the ice.
Eventually, the actor made it back into the rink for the final pose as the dance was just coming to an end.
By then the judges, studio audience and viewers at home were all in absolute hysterics.
Judgement day
In 2011 former Olympic skater and ex Dancing on Ice judge Karen Barber got caught up in a furious row with notoriously acid-tongued fellow judge Jason Gardiner.
The backlash that followed was so intense that Jason was almost axed from the show.
Jason lashed out at Karen, saying: “If your opinion still mattered you’d be on the panel” in a vicious spat over points given to contestant Johnson Beharry VC.
Days later Karen saved him from the chop, telling show bosses: “Don’t fire him, I just want to move on.”
Split decision
Singer Sinitta was the first celebrity to be voted off Dancing on Ice after a costly mistake in the skate-off in 2012.
When a complicated move called a ‘frog lift’ went wrong, the pop star ripped her skating partner Andrei Lipanov’s trousers.
As she came to the end of her routine – performed to Halo by Beyonce – the blade of her skate cut through her partner’s trousers, leaving a gaping hole in the material.
After being told she was leaving the show, a shocked Sinitta said: “I had such high hopes for this.
“I was starting to love it. I can hardly speak.”
Sinitta and skating partner Andrei Lipanov in 2010[/caption]
Sinitta split her partner’s costume in an embarrassing blunder[/caption]
Seaman’s own goal
Former Arsenal FC goalkeeper David Seaman may have had a safe pair of hands as a goalkeeper but he dropped his partner on the chin during a dress rehearsal for the first series.
Then, on a subsequent live show, he dropped his replacement partner as well – and took a tumble himself in 2006.
Although he already had experience from Strictly Ice Dancing, and he ended up in fourth place, his journey was turbulent.
David Seaman with DOI partner Pam[/caption]
During one rehearsal, he attempted the dreaded “headbanger” move, only to drop his partner Pam O’Connor face-first into the ice, where she was rushed to hospital needing stitches.
It seems that David might have been cursed during the series as he and skater, Natalia Pestova – who stood in for Pam – were sent crashing to the ground as David botched another one of their choreographed lifts.
