Irish Sunday Mirror

I can’t wait to have an ice night in with my boyfriend

Jake: I never want to give up skating

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ICE FINAL: BROOKE’S LOVED UP

JAKE Quickenden hopes to skate off with a new career tonight if he lifts the Dancing on Ice trophy. The X Factor and I’m a Celebrity... star is bookies’ favourite for the ITV show. And he says he would love to become a profession­al skater after discoverin­g a talent for the sport. Jake, 29, has topped the leaderboar­d ever since Week Three – and earned the first perfect 40 of the series in last week’s semi-final. He said: “I love skating. I’m 100 per cent going to carry it on. “It’d be great to do it for a living – Disney on Ice came in and I was proper trying to get in the guy’s ear… ‘Do you need another Aladdin? Need a Prince Charming?’ I played Peter Pan in panto and I can’t fly… so anything is possible.” Ice-mad Jake this week revealed he will install an ice rink at his wedding to fiancee Danielle later this year. But he will not be encouragin­g his biker father-in-law Carl Fogarty to hit the ice. “Carl’s a daredevil,” he said. “He’d likely try to get his bike on there.”

Jake, who lost his dad and brother to cancer, says Carl has been “so supportive”.

He said: “Danielle videos him sometimes when he’s watching and he’s on the edge of his seat. He’s obviously my mate and my fatherin-law.

“But he’s also like a father figure to me as well. The fact I’ve made him proud is kind of nice.” Jake even plans a skate-themed do

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