TV HIGHLIGHTS Dancing On Ice needed abreak. We’d broken most of the celebs who would have taken part... I

F your new year resolution is to get fit in 2018 then Dancing On Ice could be just the thing to inspire you. Legendary skating duo Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean are back, joining judges Jason Gardiner and Ashley Banjo to put a new line-up of celebrities through their paces.

Taking to the ice in the new-look show are Coronation Street favourites Antony Cotton and Brooke Vincent, singer Lemar, presenter Donna Air, singer Cheryl Baker, Good Morning Britain weatherman Alex Beresford, Great British Bake Off winner, Candice Brown, Love Island’s Kem Cetinay, Hollyoaks actress Stephanie Waring, X Factor finalist Jake Quickenden, athlete Perri Shakes-Drayton and rugby player Max Evans.

So what do hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield think of the show’s return? The greatest show on ice is skating back to ITV after a four year break. finds out why Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby think the time is right for a comeback

But what I loved is that it What is really nice is I finished with great dignity. I was have found a new appreciation so proud of the last show. It was for this kind of show (which I a beautiful show. I do always love) since having the kids. It is think it’s a bad idea to cancel exactly the type of show we sit anything. and watch as a family.

If you cancel something, it We love Strictly, The X Factor can’t come back. If you rest it and we love sitting there then it can come back. If I were a watching those big family event TV executive, I’d never cancel TV moments. It is nice that my anything. I would just rest children are now old enough to everything! come and watch and enjoy We had such fun on Dancing On Ice that when the position became vacant on Good Morning, I said ‘Holly is the only person I want’

I can’t wait. There have been rumours the show was coming back for a couple of years and I was asked if I’d be interested if it were and obviously it was that bite your hand off kind of thing.

It is the right time. It definitely needed a break. We had broken most of the people who would have done it!

We had to hatch some more celebrities to break because it is so hard. But it is not a case of bringing it back – it is a reboot.