Dancing On Ice’s Brendan Cole and new partner Brendyn face battle to stay on show as they ‘struggle’ with moves

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DANCING On Ice's Brendan Cole is facing a battle to stay on the show with his new skating partner Brendyn. Skater Vanessa Bauer was forced out of the competition with coronavirus - leaving Brendan scrambling to prepare for Sunday night's show.

He's being given extended rehearsal time to gel with his new partner Brendyn - but the pair have already faced their first struggle.

In an exclusive interview with The Sun, the show's creative director Dan Whiston insisted: "Rehearsals are going really well with Brendan and Brendyn.  "It's a really exciting opportunity for me as a choreographer and also for the show to do this. "Obviously, Vanessa can't perform this weekend and we'll really miss her but she is really behind the guys. "I've spent extra time with Brendan and Brendyn, we've extended rehearsal sessions because it's really hard for them to suddenly start a brand new skating relationship, they don't know each other on the ice and how they work but they've gelled really well." He added: "So far they have been struggling with the 'sliding lunge'.

It's difficult because one of them will be taking the other one's weight and they have to slide horizontally across the ice with one of them holding the other up.  @font-face{font-family:'The Sun';src:url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.woff2') format('woff2'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.woff') format('woff'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.ttf') format('truetype'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.svg#') format('svg');font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-display:swap;}@font-face{font-family:'The Sun';src:url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.woff2') format('woff2'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.woff').