October 27, 2024 • 7 mins
British ice skating legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean join Jonesy & Amanda ahead of their Australian tour.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jo Jersey and Amanda gam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
They are the duo that shook the world in nineteen
eighty four. This music is so evocative. They skated to
this incredible ballero and went on to become world champions.
They received the highest figure skating score of all time
in the eighty four Olympics.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yes, nine sections four in the first set. That is
thirteen sections, the most sexes ever scored by any skaters
in comportation.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
What a way to go out on top of the world.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
That is amazing, amazing, And forty years on, Jane Torvill
and Christopher Dean are still known as the Ice King
and Queen, but they're preparing for their final state at
skate together for a farewell tour called Our Last Dance.
Hello the two of you, Good morning. Have you skated
together in all these intervening years.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yes, yes, we have it. Next year will be fifty
years of skating together.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
So it's not.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Started when we were fifteen, no one one.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
So it's not like when all of the big brew
ha haa finished. You sort of went your separate ways
and only now coming back together. You've been skating together
all this time.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yes, In fact, in nineteen eighty four, after the Olympics.
Sydney was the first place that we came to as
when we turned professional, So we came down here with
the intention of doing like ten shows and then we
ended up staying for three months. They kept adding shows
and we just then.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Off the back of that, we put together our own
tour and then we eventually stayed down here for a year.
So it's great to be back and it's great to
be finishing here as well, so it feels like full circle.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Then when you do an ice skating show, how long
does it go for? Because I think you know because
I know it from the Olympics. When you guys did it,
you're on the ice for what three and a half minutes?
So when you go onto a big ice show, obviously
people will want more than three and a half minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
No, it's like a proper show. It's two fifty minute
halfs yep. But we're bringing lots of other professional skaters
with us, other talents as well. But the thrust of
this particular production is that it's going to be sort
of our life story and that we'll be talking in
between and skating in between, and then some of the
(02:20):
well known numbers that we've done in the past. We're
sort of building out and creating stories behind them, but
hugely emotional.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
What kind of toll does skating take on your body?
Great fitness regime, but what kind of injuries do you sustain?
I assume you haven't sliced each other's fingers off or anything.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, Jane's managed to break my nose, managed to haven't
I with my blade blade through the hand, lots of
puncture wounds in my shins, back issues, I mean, just
you regularly the usual kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Yeah, and Jane's come out, You've come out unscathed with it.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
It seems that I do think that Chris has had
more injuries than I have. But you know, we're so
lucky that we haven't had more than what we've had,
considering how much we've done, how many shows we've done
over the years, and we just were still.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Going as dancers rule. The dancer's rule is do you
never drop your partner, or if you do have to
go down, you go down first and they land on you.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I've done that many golden rules.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Which is why you've hit the hit the dick first.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I was reading that you saved Jane's life Chris, when
you were having an anaphylectic moment. Is that right, Jane, Oh, yes,
notalogy that odd thing.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yes, oh, the old EpiPen come out, because when it happens,
it's it's really dramatic, isn't it. I mean almost like
the omen or what is it? When it headspins round?
And she sounded like her said, Jane, what's happening? And
we we apt to be in Alaska actually in the
middle of nowhere, the middle of nowhere, and they were
about to call a helicopter in and she said, no,
(03:57):
it's just the epi pens and goes.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
The You did that? Yeah, amazing, What an amazing partnership
you've had.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Absolutely, But you guys must know each other so well.
There must be stuff that irritates you about each other.
Because Amanda and I have been doing this radio show
for twenty years. We're married to separate partners. But there's
always stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Very similar, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
It is very And it's like ice skating. Sometimes someone's
bum ends up in your face.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
We won't go there, but yes, you two must know
the ups and the downs of each other's lives very well.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Well.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
We grew up together, you know, We were fifteen years
old when we started skating together. So we've gone through
this twenties, thirties, marriages, children, all of that thing, and
now almost retirement.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And how will you feel as you wrap up this tour.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I think it will be emotional, But at the moment,
we're just starting to prepare to get ready for it.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
It's exciting at the moment because of all the cast
that we're having and the creativity that you're putting into
a show. You want to make it the biggest and best,
and so at the moment we're sort of really excited
by it. But I'm sure when it comes to that
last dance, yeah, they'll be Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We did this.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Actually, we were thinking that we were retiring back in
nineteen ninety eight, and we didn't tell anybody, and it
was I think it was in Seattle or something.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
We're in the States as part of another show. It
wasn't our own show, so.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
We didn't tell anybody, just ourselves and we sort of
had a last hug and somebody took a picture and
that's sort of on our wall. But then a few
years later in the UK, we started a TV show
called Dancing on Ice and that's been going for seventeen
years now and that's kept us alive and we perform
each season on that as well. So we've just kept
(05:45):
on skating and touring off the back of that.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Well, I wonder, I imagine there'll be some dramatic moment
and hopefully it's not slicing off fingers or that allergies,
and hopefully it's a majestic and wonderful and tear field moment.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
And certainly not bum in face or that could be
beyoncre Well.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
You know, there is a number that we do in
the routine that's familiar. You played the music earlier that
we may be finishing with that.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Because is that hard to do?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
That's because you're a bit older than you were back
in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well, when you said forty, I sort of had a
bit of a jolt for at the moment.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
But that's and how physically tiring is it because people
are going to expect you to do it.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well, we do age appropriate skating okay, but at the
same time, it's still challenging foras and we're hopeful that
it will conjure up the memories of when we were
skating together.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Or may your skates be sharp and the ice feed icy.
And that's the relationship. Crisp, and the relationship not in
any way be icy. It's so great to see you guys.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
It's lovely to be here. And the view that you
have here, it's all right, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Do they pay you to come to work?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
It's amazing, isn't there some days? Or do you pay
the bosses? Would be very happy to do this job
for nothing.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Just to look at that, well, you probably just keep
that on the deck.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I get your tickets now to see Total and Dean
our last dance at ticket Tech.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Jane Tuvill, Christopher Dean, thank you for joining us. Thanks
so much,
Jo Jersey and Amanda gam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
They are the duo that shook the world in nineteen
eighty four. This music is so evocative. They skated to
this incredible ballero and went on to become world champions.
They received the highest figure skating score of all time
in the eighty four Olympics.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yes, nine sections four in the first set. That is
thirteen sections, the most sexes ever scored by any skaters
in comportation.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
What a way to go out on top of the world.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
That is amazing, amazing, And forty years on, Jane Torvill
and Christopher Dean are still known as the Ice King
and Queen, but they're preparing for their final state at
skate together for a farewell tour called Our Last Dance.
Hello the two of you, Good morning. Have you skated
together in all these intervening years.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yes, yes, we have it. Next year will be fifty
years of skating together.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
So it's not.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Started when we were fifteen, no one one.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
So it's not like when all of the big brew
ha haa finished. You sort of went your separate ways
and only now coming back together. You've been skating together
all this time.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yes, In fact, in nineteen eighty four, after the Olympics.
Sydney was the first place that we came to as
when we turned professional, So we came down here with
the intention of doing like ten shows and then we
ended up staying for three months. They kept adding shows
and we just then.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Off the back of that, we put together our own
tour and then we eventually stayed down here for a year.
So it's great to be back and it's great to
be finishing here as well, so it feels like full circle.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Then when you do an ice skating show, how long
does it go for? Because I think you know because
I know it from the Olympics. When you guys did it,
you're on the ice for what three and a half minutes?
So when you go onto a big ice show, obviously
people will want more than three and a half minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
No, it's like a proper show. It's two fifty minute
halfs yep. But we're bringing lots of other professional skaters
with us, other talents as well. But the thrust of
this particular production is that it's going to be sort
of our life story and that we'll be talking in
between and skating in between, and then some of the
(02:20):
well known numbers that we've done in the past. We're
sort of building out and creating stories behind them, but
hugely emotional.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
What kind of toll does skating take on your body?
Great fitness regime, but what kind of injuries do you sustain?
I assume you haven't sliced each other's fingers off or anything.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, Jane's managed to break my nose, managed to haven't
I with my blade blade through the hand, lots of
puncture wounds in my shins, back issues, I mean, just
you regularly the usual kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Yeah, and Jane's come out, You've come out unscathed with it.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
It seems that I do think that Chris has had
more injuries than I have. But you know, we're so
lucky that we haven't had more than what we've had,
considering how much we've done, how many shows we've done
over the years, and we just were still.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Going as dancers rule. The dancer's rule is do you
never drop your partner, or if you do have to
go down, you go down first and they land on you.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I've done that many golden rules.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Which is why you've hit the hit the dick first.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I was reading that you saved Jane's life Chris, when
you were having an anaphylectic moment. Is that right, Jane, Oh, yes,
notalogy that odd thing.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yes, oh, the old EpiPen come out, because when it happens,
it's it's really dramatic, isn't it. I mean almost like
the omen or what is it? When it headspins round?
And she sounded like her said, Jane, what's happening? And
we we apt to be in Alaska actually in the
middle of nowhere, the middle of nowhere, and they were
about to call a helicopter in and she said, no,
(03:57):
it's just the epi pens and goes.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
The You did that? Yeah, amazing, What an amazing partnership
you've had.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Absolutely, But you guys must know each other so well.
There must be stuff that irritates you about each other.
Because Amanda and I have been doing this radio show
for twenty years. We're married to separate partners. But there's
always stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Very similar, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
It is very And it's like ice skating. Sometimes someone's
bum ends up in your face.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
We won't go there, but yes, you two must know
the ups and the downs of each other's lives very well.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Well.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
We grew up together, you know, We were fifteen years
old when we started skating together. So we've gone through
this twenties, thirties, marriages, children, all of that thing, and
now almost retirement.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And how will you feel as you wrap up this tour.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I think it will be emotional, But at the moment,
we're just starting to prepare to get ready for it.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
It's exciting at the moment because of all the cast
that we're having and the creativity that you're putting into
a show. You want to make it the biggest and best,
and so at the moment we're sort of really excited
by it. But I'm sure when it comes to that
last dance, yeah, they'll be Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We did this.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Actually, we were thinking that we were retiring back in
nineteen ninety eight, and we didn't tell anybody, and it
was I think it was in Seattle or something.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
We're in the States as part of another show. It
wasn't our own show, so.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
We didn't tell anybody, just ourselves and we sort of
had a last hug and somebody took a picture and
that's sort of on our wall. But then a few
years later in the UK, we started a TV show
called Dancing on Ice and that's been going for seventeen
years now and that's kept us alive and we perform
each season on that as well. So we've just kept
(05:45):
on skating and touring off the back of that.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Well, I wonder, I imagine there'll be some dramatic moment
and hopefully it's not slicing off fingers or that allergies,
and hopefully it's a majestic and wonderful and tear field moment.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
And certainly not bum in face or that could be
beyoncre Well.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
You know, there is a number that we do in
the routine that's familiar. You played the music earlier that
we may be finishing with that.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Because is that hard to do?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
That's because you're a bit older than you were back
in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well, when you said forty, I sort of had a
bit of a jolt for at the moment.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
But that's and how physically tiring is it because people
are going to expect you to do it.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well, we do age appropriate skating okay, but at the
same time, it's still challenging foras and we're hopeful that
it will conjure up the memories of when we were
skating together.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Or may your skates be sharp and the ice feed icy.
And that's the relationship. Crisp, and the relationship not in
any way be icy. It's so great to see you guys.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
It's lovely to be here. And the view that you
have here, it's all right, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Do they pay you to come to work?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
It's amazing, isn't there some days? Or do you pay
the bosses? Would be very happy to do this job
for nothing.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Just to look at that, well, you probably just keep
that on the deck.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I get your tickets now to see Total and Dean
our last dance at ticket Tech.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Jane Tuvill, Christopher Dean, thank you for joining us. Thanks
so much,
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