Coronation Street legend signs up for Dancing On Ice 2025, as announced on This Morning

CORONATION Street legend Sam Aston has revealed he has signed up for Dancing On Ice.

The father is trading the Cobbles for the ice rink after playing the role of Chesney Brown since 2003.

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Sam, 31, was announced today on ITV’s This Morning and appeared in the studio dressed as a snowman.

Presenters Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard were today tasked with identifying two of the celebrities and revealing who was in the costume.

Kat started singing, “Take it off, take it off, take it off!”

Sam told them, “I was glad I could take that off, I’m sweating!

“It’s something I always wanted to do. It came about and it was one of them. I hadn’t thought about it in the past, the press office said it and I thought yes.”

Sam said he auditioned to get an idea of ​​what it would be like.

He said, “They actually let you stand on the ice. But I got a real buzz from experiencing it a little bit.”

“My son is quite excited about it, he’s only young, but when I told him he said ‘can I come, can I come?’ He’s only four!”

He added, “It’s fun for the audience to see me as me and not as Chesney!”

Sam started his acting career at the age of five in an advert promoting school uniforms for Asda.

He was then chosen to appear in an advertisement for Warburton’s bread.

This morning it was previously announced that an Olympic legend had signed up for the new series.

The Sun also revealed that iconic EastEnders villain Charlie Brooks has signed up to appear.

Charlie, 43, who played super bitch Janine Butcher in Albert Square, is the latest star to join the ITV celebrity skate show.

It comes after she won ‘I’m a Celebrity’. . . in 2012.

A television source said: “Charlie is a brilliant signing.

“She has a huge EastEnders fan base and has a huge personality and feisty energy.

“The ITV bookers hope she can recreate some of her I’m a Celeb magic on screen.

“They are taking full advantage of the fact that many female stars have avoided Strictly this year amid all the scandal.

“It will be a belted lineup.”

Charlie left BBC1’s EastEnders in 2022 and has since played the Child Catcher in a West End production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Ferne and Charlie join The Traitors model Mollie Pearce, 22, and soap actress Chelsee Healey, 36, in Dancing on Ice 2025.