DANCING On Ice’s Darren Harriott delivered an eye-popping efficiency final weekend, whipping off his kecks to disclose gold hotpants.
Whereas the enjoyable transfer went all proper on the night time, it was a unique story in rehearsal.
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The comic’s observe went so incorrect it introduced the place to a standstill as everybody inside view creased with laughter.
Explaining the unlucky wardrobe malfunction, Dan Whiston, the present’s artistic director mentioned: “My former skating accomplice Cheryl Baker carried out with The Fizz for Darren and Tippy’s routine, and it introduced again so many superb reminiscences from once we skated collectively a couple of years in the past.
“Regardless of my finest efforts, Cheryl wouldn’t pop her skates on for outdated instances’ sake, however we nonetheless had a extremely enjoyable day.
“As an alternative of the well-known skirt reveal, Darren ripped off his trousers to disclose gold Lamé shorts which had everybody laughing.
“Then throughout rehearsals he bought caught with one leg in and one leg out of his trousers and everybody ended up crying with laughter.
“We had been laughing so onerous that rehearsals had been delivered to a standstill till we’d managed to compose ourselves.”
Darren, 34, is now a darkish horse to make it to the latter levels of the competitors after impressing on the ice.
He scored a really respectable 26.5 placing him inside touching distance of the highest six stars, who scored 30 and above.
It was definitely sufficient for him to keep away from the chop, with Ekin-Su’s saucy routine not doing sufficient to save lots of her from elimination within the dance-off.
And standing head and shoulders above the remaining is Nile Wilson.
The gymnast topped the leaderboard once more with an excellent 34, and Dan believes he’ll be shifting on to some excessive degree strikes within the close to future.
He mentioned: “Nile’s avenue dance routine was jam-packed with troublesome strikes you hardly ever see this early within the competitors. I’m satisfied inside a couple of weeks he’ll be doing an axel.”
The sting leap, named after Norwegian skater Axel Paulsen, is skating’s most troublesome leap.
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