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Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean’s perfectly-timed damehood and knighthood

A damehood for Torvill and a knighthood for Dean in the New Year Honours arrive at the end of their UK farewell tour.

The Independent UK · Dec 29, 2025

Dean says final performance with Torvill ‘almost felt like the Olympics again’

The duo announced their retirement from skating together in 2024.

Evening Standard · Dec 18, 2025

Torvill says secret to friendship with Dean is they ‘never got married’

The skating duo, who took home the Olympic gold at the 1984 Winter Games, announced their retirement from skating together in 2024.

Evening Standard · Jul 16, 2025

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Torvill and Dean ‘bow out on a high’ skating to Bolero in final performance

The duo announced their retirement from skating together in 2024, 40 years on from their Olympic gold success.

Evening Standard · Jul 13, 2025

The Best of the 2025 BBC Proms: 20 picks, from Chineke! to Mozart

As the Proms head back to London, another season of music variety beckons. Nick Kimberley picks out the ones worth grabbing tickets for

Evening Standard · May 16, 2025

Christopher Dean on another Dancing On Ice series: I don’t know yet

Dancing On Ice briefly ended after the ninth series in 2014, before making a comeback in 2018.

Evening Standard · Mar 24, 2025

"In all those children's stories, you take some kind of chemical and have a great adventure. Alice In Wonderland is blatant": Grace Slick on the inspiration behind Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit

Riffing on Lewis Carroll's Alice, inspired by Miles Davis, Grace Slick's two-and-a-half minute hallucinogenic classic would provide her with an income for life

Louder · Jan 29, 2024

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10 more of the best things Nottingham has given the world

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Nottingham Post · Oct 9, 2022

Dancing on Ice's Torvill and Dean give their verdicts on this year's three finalists

Regan Gascoigne, Brendan Cole and Kimberly Wyatt are set to take to the ice for the final of Dancing on Ice later this weekend, as another series of the ITV show comes to a close

Daily Mirror · Mar 27, 2022

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