Ice stars will slide into city on tour

Celebrities from Dancing on Ice will be skating into the West Midlands in the spring for a glittering live tour.

Current contestant and Boyzone star Mikey Graham will join past celebrity skaters for the nationwide tour of the hit ITV show.

Former favourites Gaynor Faye, Chris Fountain and Ray Quinn have all signed up and the spectacular will be at Birmingham's LG Arena from April 30 – May 2.

Ray Quinn, who has just finished his run as Prince Charming at the Birmingham Hippodrome Christmas pantomime, was crowned the winner of the last series and following that won almost every night on last year's tour.

Actress Gaynor Faye was winner of the first series, whilst Hollyoaks star Chris Fountain was a runner up in the third series.

Pop star Mikey Graham is dancing in the current series and receiving great comments from the judges, he is ranked in second place in the series scoring at present.

All of the celebrities will be trained and choreographed by ice skating legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, who will also perform on the tour. More celebrities will be announced soon, organisers promised today.

The five-week UK tour will travel to arenas in Sheffield, Newcastle, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham and Belfast.

At each performance the audience will have a chance to vote for their favourite skating celebrity. Replicating the format of the show, they will be able to use their mobile phone to text vote for their favourite dancing couple.

The audience votes will then be added to the scores from the judges to decide the winner. Once the votes have been counted, the winning celebrity will join their skating partner to perform in the finale. As with the previous tours, all profits from text voting will go to charity, more than £80,000 has been raised to date.

To book tickets call 08444 99 99 55 or log onto www.dancingonicetour.co.uk. Tickets are priced from £32.50 to £65.00.

The ITV show has been pulling in millions of viewers on a Sunday night.

Tana Ramsay was the last contestant to be voted off the current series last week.

Gordon Ramsay's wife was skating to the Abba hit Waterloo and faced former Coronation Street actor Danny Young in the skate-off after they received the fewest votes from the voting public.

The judging panel voted unanimously to save Young who has been one of their favourites.