Dancing On Ices Holly Willoughby quits ITV show as new | UK News

Dancing on Ice presenter Holly Willoughby has give up ITV’s You Bet! after only one sequence. Holly and her longtime pal Stephen Mulhernrelaunched the traditional Eighties sport show in December 2024, however it has now been confirmed that Holly will not be returning for season two, leaving Stephen to entrance the show on his own.

The second sequence, which is anticipated to return later this yr, comes after 2024’s profitable reboot grew to become ITV’s greatest Entertainment launch for youthful viewers for over two years. An ITV spokesperson instructed TV Zone: “Unfortunately Holly couldn’t commit to the dates to host the new series of You Bet!, but will hopefully appear as a guest panellist on one of the shows in the new series.”

You Bet! initially aired on ITV for 10 sequence and a quantity of specials between February 1988 and April 1997. It was first hosted by Bruce Forsyth from 1988 to 1990, then Matthew Kelly from 1991 to 1995 and eventually Darren Day in 1996 and 1997.

The show sees a panel of celebrities guess on the flexibility of members of the public to realize unlikely challenges and stunts within a restricted quantity of time. The studio viewers would additionally place a guess on the outcomes and the panellists would obtain factors for every end result they predicted accurately, primarily based on the share of the studio viewers that additionally positioned a right guess.

At the top of the show, the studio viewers votes for his or her favorite challenger, who takes home £10,000. At the identical time, the celeb with the very best rating wins £10,000 for his or her chosen charity, whereas the celeb with the bottom rating takes on the ultimate forfeit.

The information comes after the long run of Dancing On Ice was thrown into doubt after a dramatic decline in scores.

The ITV show launched in 2006 with Holly and Phillip Schofield on the helm. It ran till 2014 earlier than returning in 2018. Stephen changed Phillip in 2024 after his resignation from ITV after admitting to his affair.

Recent figures have proven a worrisome downward development, with an all-time low of simply 2.9 million viewers for one episode in 2024, plummeting from the three.6 million who had tuned in for the season’s begin. The decline continued into 2025, seeing the launch episode’s viewers stay at 2.9 million and dropping to 2.4 million by its fifth week.

Insiders concern that if the numbers don’t choose up, this might be the final sequence of the long-running show. A source instructed the Mirror: “There are very real fears this is the end of the road for Dancing on Ice. It’s had a good run for nearly 20 years and has a very loyal set of viewers who really love it but the sad truth is there’s just not enough of them. We need bums on seats but the ratings have dropped to a point where it’s difficult to justify the cost.”

ITV has spoken out on the destiny of Dancing on Ice, with a spokesperson telling the publication: “The Dancing on Ice team is fully concentrating on the much anticipated series finale this coming Sunday and therefore no decision has been made.”