Get in the mood for the seventh series of spectacular celebrity skating action with our list of fascinating facts about the show!
Since Dancing on Ice started, over 700 pairs of fake eye lashes have been used.
The blades on ice skates are made of steel and are approx 4mm thick.
The Dancing on Ice team, including the crew is made up of about 250 people!
There are two physiotherapists on duty, two paramedics to tend to the celebs and skating professionals.
There is a superstition that it’s bad luck to touch the flowers the eliminated skater used in rehearsal as skaters think it means they will be out of the competition.
On average between 5500 -6000 crystals are used per dress, all individually stuck on by hand! That means over 1.2 million crystals were used in series 5 alone, and around 6 million since the show began!
Since Dancing on Ice hit TV screens in 2006 around 1000 individual costumes have been made.
Over 4.3 million crystals have been hand stuck onto costumes since the first series of Dancing on Ice.
The most expensive colour crystal used on costumes is gold.
A special paint is used to paint the ice which comes from Canada and is used to paint all of the hockey rinks in Northern America. Painting takes place once there are about 4cm of ice. A spray boom with a very fine nozzle is used to spray the ice white. The paint has a secret formula.
The most famous daring move performed on Dancing on Ice is the head banger – The celebrity is held by the ankles and lies flat out in the air. The skating partner spins them around whilst swinging them high up in the air and low down near the ice – hence it is called a headbanger as the head is dangerously close to ice.
Last year’s champion, Sam Attwater is the only male celebrity to have performed the headbanger – will anyone join him in the Dancing on Ice hall of fame, this series?
As well as increasing their fitness, many of the celebrities have lost substantial weight from training to ice skate. The record amount of weight shed by any Dancing on Ice celebrity is held by Donal McIntyre who lost over 3 stone in series 4.
Suzanne was the first celebrity in Dancing on Ice history to score full marks from the Judges gaining the perfect score of 30.0 twice in the final.
Ray was the first celebrity in Dancing on Ice history to receive the highest score for every week he skated.
Both Aggie MacKenzie and Todd Carty scored the lowest score every week of the competition they were in.
The tallest celebrity to skate on the show was Steve Backley in series 3 at 6ft 5 inches.
The shortest celebrity to skate on the show was Bonnie Langford in series 1 whose height is 5ft 1 inch.
The oldest female celebrity to have skated in the series is Angela Rippon, who was 66 at the time of competing in series 6.
The oldest male celebrity to have skated on the show is Dr Hilary Jones who was 56 when he skated in series 5.
To date Torvill and Dean have choreographed over 450 routines. At the 1984 Winter Olympics the pair became the highest scoring figure skaters of all time (for a single programme) receiving twelve perfect 6.0s.