Dancing On Ice evictee
Heidi Range has laid into one of the show’s judges Katarina Witt, as her fellow former contestant Sebastien Foucan admits he cried after their exit from the show.
Heidi, who was voted off Dancing On Ice on Sunday night, has spoken out about what she feels were unfair comments made by judge Katarina.
The former Olympic skating champion had told Heidi: ‘I hope you don’t take it personally â you can move your hips and you’re a great dancer but your feet are not moving with you.’Your step sequence was very slow and you are preying on the strength of Andrei and that he’s able to do all those great lifts with you.’
Heidi has now hit back, telling TV Biz magazine: ‘It was unfair because it was never said to any of the other girls, “Oh he puts you in your lifts…”
‘With the other girls it was always acknowledged what they’d done to hold themselves and get into that lift.’But with mine she seemed to dismiss how much effort I put into them. You have to go for it and hold yourself in there and it is terrifying. It was never said to any of the other girls.
‘I took it personally because it was a point she made every week.’
The Sugababe admitted that she didn’t know why Katarina took against her in the way that she did: ‘I don’t know. If it was said to all the other girls, OK, but it wasn’t and when they did a lift they were praised for it.’They are really tough the lifts, they are something the audience are waiting for, that is part of the show. Your skating is important but for the audience at home, they want to see the big lifts.’Heidi claims she and skating partner Andrei Lipamov dedicated time and effort to getting the lifts right.
‘Andrei and I would go and practise for an hour each day off the ice â lifts, so I was getting used to the feelings so we could put those big elements into the routine.’So I worked really hard on them and then it wasn’t, it was just like, “Oh he put you there.”‘Meanwhile, axed DOI hopeful Sebastien Foucan has revealed that the tears some viewers thought they saw after his exit on Sunday were real and that he was crying because his daughters became emotional.
He told The Sun: ‘It was a nightmare. I feel like I forgot everything, it went blank.’You don’t even look anyone in the eyes because you know there are so many people with expectation and love. That was pretty painful. My daughters were crying, they were watching on TV.’
VIDEO:Heidi and Sebastien get the boot from Dancing On Ice