Anita: I’m too old to get skates on BUT I STILL L ANDED PART IN TORVILL & DEAN
ANITA Dobson has told how she landed a major part in new film Torvill And Dean despite being “too old” to skate.
The Eastenders legend, 69, plays Jayne Torvill’s skating coach in ITV’S
Christmas Day drama. She said: “I was very honest when I went for the audition.
“They asked, ‘ Do you skate?’ I said, ‘No absolutely not, I’m sorry’.
“Do I want to try now? No, I’m too old. I have to take care of this poor old body now, it’s falling to bits.”
Anita – whose action scenes are done by a body double – said viewers will be left sobbing by t the story of the ice dancer dancers.
“It “It’s beautiful, i it lifts you up, it’s inspirational,” said Anita, who played Angie oppo-
Asite Leslie Grantham’s Den in Eastenders in the 1980s.
The two-hour biopic charts the rise of Jayne and dance partner Christopher Dean from their humble beginnings in 1970s Nottingham to Olympic glory.
And it recreates the legendary Bolero ro routine, which won them gold old in 1984.
Game of Thrones actor Will Tudor, or, 31, and Poppy Lee Friar, 23, play the lead ad roles, wi t h Stephen phen Tompkinson n and
Jamie Winstone stone also starring. . It is on Christmas s Day at 9.15pm on ITV.