ITV Dancing On Ice confirms EastEnders star as first contestant of 2023 show

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EastEnders actress Patsy Palmer has been named as the first contestant to sign up to Dancing on Ice 2023.Pasty, who played Bianca Jackson in the BBC soap, was confirmed by Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on This Morning on Monday.

The presenters had been teasing who it might be for a short time before they finally revealed Patsy as their guest who was live from Los Angeles, where she now lives, writes the Mirror. "I can't believe I'm the first one," the former EastEnders star told the presenters as she appeared via live link on ITV."No backing out now, we’ve revealed you." Holly joked as Patsy beamed on screen from Los Angeles, where she now lives.Quizzed on why she wanted to take part, Patsy said: “Well I didn’t obviously call them up and say ‘can I take part?’.

Just out of all the things that came through at that time, this was the one that I had to really think about.“Obviously I wanted to challenge myself, get back to work, get out of my comfort zone.“I just thought, I’ll just go for it.

It seems a lot of fun, I do like ice skating but I'm not an ice skater or figure skater."Phillip then dropped a bombshell and revealed that Patsy has been asked to do the show before but turned the opportunity down."Yes I know," Patsy explained, "because I've been absolutely terrified before but I feel like my pact that I made with myself when I was 50, which I was this year, was that I had to do things to challenge myself for the next couple of years and get out of my comfort zone because I don't want to get stuck in this thing of like 'Ah!