Dancing on Ice 2025 line-up so far

Dancing On Ice has begun announcing its celebrity cast for the 2025 series, with the first group of stars confirmed to be competing in the ITV show.

The series does not start until the new year, but celebrities commit to months of training in advance for the notoriously gruelling competition.

Now, the contestants for the forthcoming series are beginning to be named, with more announcements expected over the coming weeks.

Dancing On Ice 2025 confirmed line-up

Sam Aston

Coronation Street legend Sam Aston, who has played Chesney Brown for 21 years, was the fourth contestant announced on 30 September.

Aston arrived on This Morning dressed as a snowman, where he was unmasked as the latest Dancing On Ice cast member.

He has starred in Corrie since he was 10 and said: "Coming into the show as a young child, you don't really think about doing Dancing On Ice, I'm A Celebrity, anything like that. But I've got kids myself now and my son's really excited, he keeps asking if we're going ice skating today."

Plenty of Aston's co-stars have taken part in the show before, including Ryan Thomas who won it earlier this year. Aston laughed: "I had a chat with Ryan, he was like, 'biggest mistake of your life!'."

He added: "It's nice for the public to see me as me rather than Chesney. But Chesney's a good guy, so it's ok."

Sir Steve Redgrave

Olympic rower Sir Steve Redgrave was announced for the series by This Morning on 30 September, but played down his chances of doing well on the show. He said he had "plenty of doubts" about taking part, adding: "Rowers row because they can't run, throw or catch a ball."

Redgrave laughed: "I retired 24 years ago from competing. Some of my friends are saying it's a mid-life crisis - I'm too old for a mid-life crisis."

The 62-year-old has won gold medals in rowing at five Summer Olympic Games, but at one point also began training in bobsleigh and told This Morning: "I've always wanted to go to a Winter Games."

He said: "I must be the closest to being one of the oldest of not the oldest on the show. But I'm certainly the heaviest. I've been asking for someone big who can lift me because I don't want to do any lifting. "I can't dance, I can't skate, why am I doing this show? I've got no idea at all."

Mollie Pearce

The Traitors star Mollie Pearce was the second contestant announced for the 2025 series, telling Lorraine on 30 September about her hopes for the competition.

Pearce, who reached the final of The Traitors and was famously betrayed by best pal Harry Clark, said: "My mum used to take me skating a lot, but I haven't done it in years. I'm hoping it's going to be one of those things like riding a bike."

Like Adele Roberts who took part in Dancing On Ice earlier this year, Pearce has a stoma and said there was no reason it would hold her back.

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She said: "For me, my stoma's given me my life back completely, I would have struggled more to do it before. But watching Adele was amazing, she's just so inspirational. I had a lot of messages after The Traitors...all the fears we have before surgery, it really helps to show that it's not always like that and actually you can lead a really cool, happy life."

Lorraine Kelly also asked Pearce about her limb difference on her right arm, but she shut down any suggestion it could make the contest more difficult for her. Pearce said: "It's my normal, I was born like it so I've always adapted I suppose. I've never let it get in the way before so I'm definitely not going to start now."

She added: "I really want to do the headbanger. My parents are going to go mad." Pearce said it would be very different from The Traitors "but I'm looking forward to a more physical challenge rather than mental."

Ferne McCann

Former The Only Way Is Essex star Ferne McCann told Good Morning Britain that while she was planning to quit reality TV, she already had her next project in the spotlight lined up - she will be getting her skates on for the new series.

McCann is turning her back on her ITV reality series My Family & Me after deciding she wanted her children to have a normal childhood away from the cameras, leaving her with time to train for the tough contest.

She told Susanna Reid and Ed Balls on Monday, 30 September: "I am doing Dancing On Ice." But as they asked if she could skate, she admitted: "That's a really difficult question. Kind of, I've done Winter Wonderland and things like that with the children. But the penguins that the kids have got, I'm hunched over one of them."

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McCann added that she had "no idea" who her pro skater partner was yet. She said: "I'm such a huge fan of the show, the glitz and the glamour, it's going to be brilliant."

TV star McCann has already appeared in shows including I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!, Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, and Celebrity Best Home Cook, so she is no stranger to competing.

She said: "I want to be good, I am competitive. I'm looking forward to the challenge. We haven't started training yet, we start next week. It's perfect timing with the end of My Family & Me."

Who else is rumoured for Dancing On Ice?

As usual, a host of reality stars, actors and athletes are rumoured to be headed for the ice rink next season.

Kelly Brook is said to be taking on the show as her next challenge after Race Across The World.

EastEnders star Shona McGarty is thought to have signed up, as well as Hollyoaks' Owen Warner who found a new fanbase on I'm A Celebrity.

Athletes Linford Christie and Dina Asher-Smith, and diver Tom Daley are also said to be training for their next competition on the ice.

When does Dancing On Ice return?

The show is not due back on our screens until the new year, but contestants begin training much earlier to get their skating skills up to scratch.

Dancing On Ice usually begins on ITV in January, with the cast announced well before Christmas.

The show's judges and presenters are yet to be confirmed. Last year, Holly Willoughby continued hosting the show but was joined by Stephen Mulhern in place of Phillip Schofield.

This article originally appeared on Yahoo TV UK at https://uk.news.yahoo.com/dancing-on-ice-2025-line-up-074310366.html