EastEnders star Charlie Brooks has been announced as a contestant for the 2025 series of Dancing on Ice.
Brooks, who plays Janine Butcher in the BBC soap, will join Olympic rower Steve Redgrave, reality stars Mollie Pearce and Ferne McCann, and Coronation Street actor Sam Aston on the ITV ice-skating show with more contestants set to be revealed.
Brooks won the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special in 2011 and I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2012, beating campmate Ashley Roberts of the pop group The Pussycat Dolls.
She was welcomed to the ice-skating show by fellow competitor McCann, former Dancing on Ice professional skater Matt Evers, and fellow EastEnders actor Ricky Norwood, who featured in the ITV programme's 2024 edition.
Replying to Brooks's announcement, Norwood said: "Yes Charlie, you're going to love it."
McCann added: "Yes @charlie--brooks--xx this is going [to be] so much fun. Can't wait to meet you babe."
On her Instagram story, Brooks posted a video of herself falling over on the ice, with the caption "This should be fun."
Along with her role in EastEnders, Brooks has also presented a best-selling fitness DVD, appeared as a contestant on 10 episodes of Richard Osman's House of Games, and starred in the 1996 children's sitcom Out of Tune.
Source: Press Association
