Dancing on Ice’s Michaela Strachan revals why her ‘not encouraging’ partner won’t be in audience
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TV star Michaela Strachan has admitted that her partner, Nick Chevallier, won’t be cheering her on as part of the live audience when Dancing on Ice launches this weekend. The Springwatch presenter, who lives in Cape Town, South Africa, has temporarily based herself in the UK to train with professional ice dancer Mark Hanretty, while Nick remains at home. “We haven’t made a plan for Nick yet because he is in South Africa,” she explains. “He may come over later on, it depends on how far I get. Certainly my mum's coming, my brother's coming, my son's coming, my stepdaughter's coming. So yeah, a lot of people are. And we've made a plan for them to have a party back at home to be able to watch it.”.
Michaela adds that Nick has “not been very encouraging” about her deciding to sign up for Dancing on Ice 2025. “He just says it’s mad, but he doesn’t know the show, you know, he’s South African. He doesn’t know dance.” Another reason Nick may not be thrilled about Michaela competing is because he watched videos of skating accidents on YouTube with her before she signed up which “he thought was really bad.”.
She also admits she has already had some injuries training for the show. “I’ve got some good bruises,” she says. “I actually had an injury before I got on the ice. I sprained my ankle quite badly. In fact, two months before we started I was actually on crutches.” The injury had nothing to do with skating, however. “I was running and I went over on my ankle and sprained it, and I did think ‘oh, it’s all right,’ as I hobbled back down the mountain. My partner’s going, ‘You’re doing Dancing On Ice! This is really not good.’ I thought yeah, that’s not good - injuries before you even hit the ice.”.
