Dancing On Ice’s Ben Hanlin jokes producers ‘want him out’ after stitch-up
Dancing On Ice star Ben Hanlin has joked that show bosses want him out after 'stitching him up' with his latest skating routine.
This weekend, all the celebrities will have to skate a dance-inspired routine – from tango to street dance.
Unfortunately for magician Ben, he's been landed with morris dancing.
Speaking to Lorraine Kelly on the ITV daytime show, he said: "It's getting to the point where everyone's a bit good and you need to get higher up that leaderboard. Genuinely, I've felt the pressure this week.
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"Now I'm feeling like we can't go back a gear so we're having to step it up a bit, which could be a problem with the song we're doing this week."
When probed, he continued: "So it's dance week, so everyone's got a dance number. You've got salsa, you've got jive, you've got jazz. They've given me… morris dancing."
Lorraine quipped: "Oh I'm so sorry."
"Yeah," he replied. "They looked at me and went, 'Yep, you look like a morris dancer'."
"Oh gosh, I don't know how I would take that," Lorraine admitted.
Meanwhile Carlotta admitted that she hadn't even known what morris dancing was.
Ben added: "I mean, it could be genius but I thought the producers just wanted me out!
"How they sold it to me was that 'it's never been done before' – there's a reason for that. If it was good you'd have given it to Ray Quinn a few years ago."
*Lorraine airs weekdays at 8am on ITV
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