Ferne McCann is first contestant named for Dancing On Ice 2025

Ferne McCann has become the first contestant named for next year’s edition of Dancing On Ice.

The former The Only Way Is Essex regular made the “really difficult decision” to quit her ITVBe reality show My Family And Me earlier this month, and will compete on the 2025 series of the ITV ice skating show.

She told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “I’m so excited, it’s going to be a huge challenge but I’m excited for the glitz and glamour of the show.”

A total of 11 more celebrities will be revealed at a later stage.

McCann, 34, also explained her decision to leave her own reality series, which had been titled First Time Mum after first launching in 2017.

She told GMB that her six-year-old daughter asked her if she “was famous”, and this troubled her.

McCann said: “I know it sounds really contradictory, because we’ve had the reality show, and it’s all Sunday’s ever known, it’s actually…. normal for her to film (the) show, and it really just stopped me in my tracks, and it made feel really uncomfortable.”

McCann added that she made “the decision to be famous”, but her child did not, and she thought it best to take a break so she “does not have to come home from school and film”.

The reality star also featured on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! in 2015, and shares another girl named Finty with her fiance, property developer Lorri Haines.

Sunday is from a relationship with her ex-boyfriend Arthur Collins.

Last year, Holly Willoughby returned to present Dancing On Ice, this time with a new host in the form of Stephen Mulhern, who she previously presented ITV Saturday morning children’s show Ministry Of Mayhem with.

Mulhern replaced Phillip Schofield after he resigned from ITV having admitted to a relationship with a male This Morning employee.

Willoughby quit This Morning in October last year.