Dancing On Ice judges Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have defended their decision to keep Lemar in the competition in Sunday’s show, despite his stumble on the ice. Waring later said she was “confused” over her departure when her rival had teetered on his skates, but Torvill and Dean insisted that Lemar was the stronger skater overall. ⛸️ @torvillanddean on their decision to send @Steph_Waring home over @Lemar on Sunday's @dancingonice: 'It wasn't a hard decision for us because it is a skating competition and, stumbling aside, Lemar did more skating.' So sad to see @Steph_Waring and @slongchambon skate home 😢 #DancingOnIce pic.twitter.com/Ej0PfY7GOT — Dancing On Ice (@dancingonice) January 22, 2018After Waring and Lemar faced each other in the skate-off, judges Jason Gardiner and Ashley Banjo opted to save the actress from elimination. Dean plumped for Lemar, and Torvill, who acted as this week’s head judge, cast the deciding vote and opted to save him.

Source: Irish Examiner January 24, 2018 10:52 UTC