By Lorna Cooper, TV Editor |  |
Dancing On Ice Trivia
Olympic legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean put a new team of well known names, including Gemma Bissix, through their paces on ITV's popular skating celebrity show.
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Dancing On Ice hits our screens for its fourth series. Here's some fun facts about the show.
1. 325 canisters of fake tan are used per series
2. 220 fake eyelashes are used for the girls.
3. The Dancing On Ice rink has been purpose built at Elstree Studios, Hertfordshire. To produce the specially designed ice rink, an approximate 40,000 LTS of water is used. This takes 48 hours to freeze to get the depth of ice right for the first show.
4. In addition to the main studio rink, there has been a special training rink also built on site. The main studio rink measures 29m x 14m and seats 470 spectators. The training rink is 30.7m x 13m. There is 16,071 metres of aluminium cooling system under the two rinks to keep the ice frozen.
5. The set is made of 10 tonnes of steel, 6000 screws hold it in place with eight miles of cables running through.
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6. 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 while swinging them high up in the air and low down near the ice - which explains why it's called a headbanger - the head is dangerously close to ice as anyone who saw Bonnie Langford's headbanger in series one will know.
7. On average, the celebrities train 20 hours per week on the ice for each new routine
8. The Dancing On Ice team is made up of about 250 people including production, editorial and general crew. There are two physios on duty, two paramedics and a team of four people looking after the ice itself.
9. A special paint (which has a secret formula) is used to paint the ice which comes from Canada. It's used to paint all of the hockey rinks in northern America. Painting takes places once there is about 4cm of ice. A spray boom with very fine nozzles is used for the spraying.
10. The coolant running through the ice pipes is basic glycol (anti-freeze) mixed with water. This is mixed so that it will not freeze until -30 degrees C. There is over 10km of pipework running under each rink.
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