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The only thing more daunting than ice-skating on live television for the first time has to be the idea of being judged by a former colleague \u2013 however, Dancing on Ice<\/a>\u2018s Brendan Cole is \u201cexcited\u201d by this prospect ahead of his debut on the ITV show.<\/p>\n The former Strictly Come Dancing professional has spoken about his former castmate Oti Mabuse joining the Dancing on Ice judging panel, adding that she\u2019ll make \u201can incredible judge\u201d.<\/p>\n Speaking to\u00a0RadioTimes.com<\/a> and other press at a roundtable ahead of this Sunday\u2019s show, Cole said: \u201cI think Oti is going to be absolutely amazing.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s a phenomenal person, on and off the dance floor. She has great dance experience which she\u2019ll bring to the show and I think you\u2019ve got to have different elements from each of the [judges].<\/p> \u201cIf all the judges were the same, it\u2019d be really boring. I think she\u2019s going to make an incredible judge. Her personality is larger than life and she\u2019s a great friend of mine so I\u2019m really excited for her.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd likewise she\u2019s excited for me. [We\u2019ve had] various conversations about this since it\u2019s all been announced so it\u2019s really exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n Cole, who was a professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing for 15 series, joined the Dancing on Ice 2022 line-up<\/a> last year and will be skating alongside Vanessa Bauer in the upcoming shows.<\/p>\n ITV announced that Oti Mabuse would be joining the Dancing on Ice<\/a> judging panel after John Barrowman was confirmed to be leaving the show, with Mabuse saying: \u201cIt\u2019s more than an honour and I already can\u2019t wait to join the family.\u201d<\/p>\n By Lauren Morris Published: Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 12:00 am The only thing more daunting than ice-skating on live television for the first time has to be the idea of being judged by a former colleague \u2013 however, Dancing on Ice\u2018s Brendan Cole is \u201cexcited\u201d by this prospect ahead of his debut on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9883,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/dancing-on-ices-brendan-cole-says-oti-mabuse-will-make-an-incredible-judge-this-year.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/dancing-on-ices-brendan-cole-says-oti-mabuse-will-make-an-incredible-judge-this-year-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/dancing-on-ices-brendan-cole-says-oti-mabuse-will-make-an-incredible-judge-this-year-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/dancing-on-ices-brendan-cole-says-oti-mabuse-will-make-an-incredible-judge-this-year.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/dancing-on-ices-brendan-cole-says-oti-mabuse-will-make-an-incredible-judge-this-year.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/dancing-on-ices-brendan-cole-says-oti-mabuse-will-make-an-incredible-judge-this-year.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/dancing-on-ices-brendan-cole-says-oti-mabuse-will-make-an-incredible-judge-this-year.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Lauren Morris Published: Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 12:00 am The only thing more daunting than ice-skating on live television for the first time has to be the idea of being judged by a former colleague \u2013 however, Dancing on Ice\u2018s Brendan Cole is \u201cexcited\u201d by this prospect ahead of his debut on the…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/9882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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