Dancing on Ice judges Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have broken their silence regarding the Caprice Bourret and Hamish Gaman drama.
Neither Hamish nor Caprice have directly addressed what prompted them to stop working together, although shortly afterwards, the former model decided to leave the show.
When asked about what went on behind-the-scenes, Jayne explained that after they found out, they ‘didn’t really get involved’.
Christopher commented: ‘It was information passed on to us. It just sounded like they weren’t getting on. Caprice wanted to stay in the competition and that was the only way they could resolve it. So that’s what the producers decided to do.’
Speaking about how the atmosphere was left on set after Caprice’s departure, he continued: ‘Everyone was, to begin with, asking, “What’s happening?” But now everybody’s really concentrating on their own performance and what they have to do. You’d be surprised – everyone needs to be somehow blinkered on what they need to do.’
‘Mostly partnerships do have to get on. When you bring it to the ice, there has to be equal respect and trust. And so you have to make that work. And usually, in partnerships where that doesn’t happen, they don’t last that long in the competitive world,’ Jayne added to Mirror Online.
Caprice has remained tight-lipped about what went between her and the dancing pro on due to ‘contractual reasons’.
However, the mum-of-two has admitted that reading the rumours about the drama have been ‘really tough’.
‘The worse thing was I couldn’t say anything because of my contractual obligation,’ she began.
‘So, somebody was really taking advantage of the fact that I couldn’t talk, I didn’t have a voice. It was frustrating, it was hurtful, I had to shut down my Twitter account as a result.’
‘It was totally slanderous and untrue, I would say 98 percent of them,’ she continued to the Express.
Hamish recently decided to sit out of a live show after confessing he felt ‘extremely vulnerable’, and that it had been ‘the worst three months of my life’.
He added in a statement shared to his Twitter page: ‘I desperately want to move on from all of this and focus on the skating. I’ve done absolutely nothing wrong, and was told by the team who reviewed all the rehearsal footage that I was an “exemplary pro”.
‘I can only hope that this will all be over soon.’
Metro.co.uk has contacted Caprice’s publicist and Dancing On Ice for comment.
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