The day that we have all been waiting for has finally arrived, the final of Dancing On Ice 2012. I don’t know about you but I can’t believe how quickly this years series has gone and there us no doubt in my mind that it has been the best one yet.
Anyway, Chico, Matthew and Jorgie are the celebrities who have made it and no matter what happened in the final, they can all be proud that they have reached this far. The way the final was set out was that the first part of the programme would see one of the celebrities voted off, with the remaining two being left to skate against each other in the second part of the show to become the winner of Dancing On Ice, 2012.
As it turned out, the first ice skater to leave was Chico, and even though he was in fact the favourite to be the first one to go, he didn’t really help matters when he almost dropped his skating partner Jodeyne Higgins. I don’t think it was down to nerves but instead a simple mistake which happened at the wrong time, the final!
All of the judges were extremely complimentary about Chico, and quire right too. At 40 years of age he was one of the older contestants and he never once let himself down. Don’t forget that he was a last minute entry after Chesney Hawkes was forced to pull out of the competition due to a broken leg. Chico never gave less than 100% and when he was voted off he took it all with good grace. Like most of the other competitors, it was quite clear that he had experienced the time of his life and with his wife and child in the audience, he thanked everyone, from his family to his dancing partner Jodeyne Higgins who he said was the most incredible lady.
So, the second part of Sunday nights show saw the final between Matthew Wolfenden and Jorgie Porter and to say that it was a closely fought contest would have to be the understatement of the year. Matthew was the favourite with the bookies but we all know that they have been known to get it wrong sometimes and there was no way that Jorgie was not going to give it her very best shot.
Both finalists danced the bolero which was made famous by Torvill and Dean and it was actually Jorgie who impressed the judges more than Matthew, scoring a fantastic 59 points to Matthews 58.5 but when it came to the viewing public it turned out that the bookies were correct again and Matthew was crowned the winner of Dancing On Ice 2012.
When he was interviewed afterwards it was quite astonishing when Matthew revealed to Philip and Christine that when he went on the ice for the first time he thought that everyone would laugh at him because he was so bad and he wasn’t at all confident that he would do well at all. He also added that the training and the competing in the competition had in fact been the hardest experience of his life and that if he was asked to take part again he didn’t know if he would. His dancing on ice partner, Nina Ulanova, said that the past 6 months had been really hard but she was obviously just as delighted at Matthew at being crowned the champions.
When Jorgie was interviewed, she joked that the thing that she had most enjoyed about Dancing On Ice was the fact that she had got to dress up in lovely glittering costumes every week but joking aside, she really did do very well indeed and when Jane Torvill was asked about Jorgie she was quite emotional, she said that Jorgie performed so well she looked like a ballerina and I don’t think that anyone would disagree that she should be extremely proud of her achievement in this years competition.
Even though this was the final I don’t think that I have ever seen the judges on Dancing On Ice so impressed by the performances, there is little doubt that any of the finalists, as well as a couple of the other contestants who didn’t get this far, could actually go on and ice skate as their main occupation.
Anyway, that’s Dancing On Ice over for another year and there is no doubt that Matthew Wolfenden is a worthy champion but a big well done to everyone who took part, they all really made it a series to remember.
