Steve Is Booted Off Ice

Olympian Steve Backley is the latest celebrity to bite the dust on ITV's Dancing on Ice.

The javelin star, who took part in the series despite having a prosthetic hip, was in the bottom two following the public vote and lost out to actress Zaraah Abrahams in the skate-off.

He said: "I'm disappointed to go and there is no getting away from that. I am gutted. Having the prosthetic hip is a big deal, my stumbling block is getting over that but I am delighted to have got this far."

Meanwhile, tennis player Greg Rusedski received the brunt of the judges' criticism on the night, with Jason Gardiner telling him he had "the charisma of cardboard".

"There is no oomph in your performance," he said. "It starts at one level and doesn't move. You are dull as dishwater."

The judges also clashed about Suzanne Shaw's performance, after judge Nicky Slater gave her a score of four points, lower than the other judges.

The show had a Sixties theme and for the first time all the celebrities took to the ice together.