Former EastEnders star Patsy Palmer has been introduced as the primary contestant for Dancing On Ice 2023.
The 50-year-old actress, greatest recognized for her position as Bianca Jackson within the BBC cleaning soap, was unveiled for the forthcoming sequence throughout Monday’s episode of This Morning.
Discussing her motivation for signing up, she advised the ITV programme: “I needed to problem myself and get again to work, get out of my consolation zone.
“And I simply thought ‘I’ll simply go for it’, it looks like a whole lot of enjoyable.”
Palmer admitted she had been requested to compete on the present earlier than however had been “completely terrified” about participating.
Explaining why she thinks now could be the fitting time, she stated: “I really feel like my pact that I made with myself once I was 50, which I used to be this yr, was I've to do issues to problem myself for the subsequent couple of years and get out of my consolation zone as a result of I don’t wish to get caught on this factor of ‘Ah, I’m 50’. It’s such a bizarre age.
“So that is for all of the 50-year-olds on the market that assume they will’t problem themselves, so be at liberty to comply with me and watch me do no matter I have to do.”
Presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby teased the information earlier within the present by exhibiting a pink wig and DJ decks.
Palmer starred as Natasha within the youngsters’s drama sequence Grange Hill in the course of the Eighties after which took on the position of Bianca Jackson in EastEnders in 1993, taking part in the half on and off till 2019.
She has additionally been DJing since 2012 and beforehand competed in Strictly Come Dancing in 2005 with skilled dancer Anton Du Beke.
– Dancing On Ice is ready to return to ITV and ITVX in 2023 with 11 new celebrities who will tackle the problem of skating dwell every week in a bid to impress each the panel and viewers at dwelling.