Coronation Street star Sam Aston has been announced for the next season of Dancing on Ice alongside British Olympian Steve Redgrave and reality TV stars Molly Pearce and Ferne McCann.
The actor, 31, is best known as Chesney Brown on the much-loved soap told ITV's This Morning: "I’m nervous but excited to get going."
Aston added: "It’s going to be nice for the public to see me for me, rather than Chesney."
Redgrave was also revealed for the next edition of the ice-skating competition on This Morning, he said: "There are all these people trying to persuade me now to do it, I can’t dance, I can’t skate, why am I doing this show? I’ve got no idea at all."
He added that he needs shoes made for him for skating as he is a wide size 12.
He said: "I must be closest to being one of the oldest, if not the oldest, on the show, but I’m certainly the heaviest that’s ever been on the show, 120 kilos, so that’s around 20 stone, so I’m not light, and I’ve been asking (for) somebody big that can lift me."
Pearce is known for making it to the final of the psychological game show The Traitors until she was betrayed by her friend Harry Clark, who won the second series.
Pearce told ITV's Lorraine: "It will be fun, I want to challenge myself, I’m ready for the challenge."
Previous contestant Adele Roberts sent her a video message saying this was the "most incredible news", before thanking her for also bringing awareness of stoma bags.
McCann, a former The Only Way Is Essex regular, said she was "so excited" to take on the "huge challenge".
A total of 10 more celebrities will be revealed at a later stage.
Last year, Holly Willoughby returned to present Dancing On Ice, this time with a new host in the form of Stephen Mulhern, with whom she previously presented ITV Saturday morning children's show Ministry Of Mayhem.
Mulhern replaced Phillip Schofield after he resigned from ITV having admitted to a relationship with a male This Morning employee.
Willoughby quit This Morning in October last year.
Source: Press Association
