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BBC News
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
'It's an honour to play the young Torvill and Dean'
Two skating cousins have achieved the highest honour of their careers, by taking on the roles of two legends in their Forsyth, 12 and Lewis Macdonald, 13, from Ayrshire, have been playing a young Torvill and Dean in the Olympic champions' farewell 50th anniversary Our Last Dance Tour will bring to an end the sporting careers of the most iconic skaters of all young cousins will perform in front of thousands in Glasgow this weekend, bringing more glory to their family's skating legacy. Isla and Lewis are coached by their mums - sisters Suzanne Otterson-MacDonald and Gillian represented Team GB at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. Gillian was a British champion in her own skating told BBC Scotland News: "It's a massive honour for them to get this opportunity and be with these icons on tour."They had heard of them, but it was more my era of skating so I was able to tell them about them."They are on quite early in the show playing the young Chris [Dean] and Jayne [Torvill] and getting together at first after being single skaters."Both cousins are advance novice skaters and both have British championship titles under their belts as well as international train six days a week but they are both individual figure skaters, not ice the partnership they play in the show, they had to be brought together for the ice dancing magic to said: "We've not skated together before – we are figure skaters so we had to train the basics on how to skate together and then come to rehearsals to learn what we are going to do in the show."We were asked by the company to do it because they knew we were quite close and loved skating and knew we were cousins."I think everyone is quite gobsmacked that we are able to do this and it is such an honour to do it." Isla, who has been skating for almost as long as she has been walking, said she had thought being asked to take part in the tour was a prank."I was coming back from a skating comp in Bucharest," she said. "I was in an airport. My mum phoned me and said 'Isla you won't guess what's happened'."She said she thought it was a prank."The youngsters were excited to meet Torvill and Dean, admitting they were the feeling is Dean told BBC Scotland News: "We put out the search and they were perfect for the spot. They carry it off really well."They were great, very impressive. For them performing in front of the huge audiences it was a big experience for them." Jayne Torvill added: "We hope they will learn a lot from this experience and grow and develop as skaters. Who knows, in 50 years they might be doing something similar."Torvill and Dean became household names after their gold medal-winning performance of Bolero in 1984 at the Winter Olympics in became the highest-scoring figure skaters of all time for a single programme. when judges gave them a dozen perfect 6.0s and six 5.9s, which included artistic impression scores of 6.0 from every farewell tour Our Last Dance is a retelling of their with personal moments of narration.
Sky News
30-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Sky News
Britain gets first world figure skating medal since Torvill and Dean in 1984
Team GB has its first world figure skating medal since Torvill and Dean in 1984, ending a drought of more than 40 years. Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson secured a bronze medal at the World Figure Skating Championships on Saturday. Their free dance to a Beyonce medley gained them a total score of 207.11 at Boston's TD Garden. The last time Britain secured a medal at the championships was when Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean had a run of four through to 1984. Fear, 25, said she "cried non-stop" after winning the medal and that it was "a dream come true". "I can't even describe my feelings. I'm still shaking," she added. Gibson, 30, also said the pair's achievement was a dream come true and thanked those who cheered them on. "The crowd here was amazing, and insane," he said. "I think we got to the moment we really worked for, they were so loud and supportive, we are thankful to the audience." Fear told Sky Sports last month that it was a "huge honour" to be considered in the same sentence as Torvill and Dean, after Gibson was inspired to take up skating by the pair. Torvill and Dean are best remembered for winning the gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics, after their Bolero routine. The duo, who recently announced their retirement, are about to embark on a farewell tour, called Torvill And Dean, Our Last Dance. They also served as judges on Dancing On Ice, which was recently put on ice by ITV, who confirmed there were no current plans for a new series.
