CORONATION Street’s Lisa George has revealed she’s terrified of skating on Dancing On Ice after suffering ‘flashbacks’ to nasty childhood skating injury in training.
The 49-year-old actress is best known for playing Beth Tinker on the ITV soap, but is swapping the cobbles for the ice rink to take part in the ITV reality show.
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Speaking on today’s Lorraine after being confirmed as the sixth celebrity, Lisa admitted she used to ice skate as a child, until she had a nasty injury.
She said: “I did it for a couple of years until I was about nine.
“I was in a competition and I stuck my blades in the ice, the ice shot up like a shard and cut my chin open so that was the end of my skating career.
“I’m 49 this year so I haven’t been on the ice for 40 years.”
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Despite so much time passing since her nasty injury, Lisa still felt strange getting back on the ice for her first training session yesterday.
She told Lorraine: “I was scared, the ice was really glossy and I thought ‘oh that’s when I fell’, so I had a flashback.”
But Lisa explained how she wanted to overcome her fears and embrace the challenge ahead of her milestone 50th birthday next year.
She said: “It’s a huge birthday for me, I thought, if I don’t do this now I’ll never have the chance to do this again.
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“I can’t believe I’m going to go back on the ice, when I stepped on the ice yesterday I felt like a nine year old again
“I just felt free and I was really buzzing, I got in my car and I was quite emotional afterwards.”
Earlier today, Steps singer Ian ‘H’ Watkins confirmed his place on the show, hours after The Sun revealed the full line-up.
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