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Jasmine Allday

Dancing On Ice tech blunder sees show favourite nearly sent to bottom of leaderboard

Dancing On Ice was hit by a tech blunder on the ITV skating show tonight.

The four judges were giving their verdicts on Regan Gascoigne's performance on the show tonight but a technology blunder whilst they were giving their votes nearly saw a show favourite end up at the bottom of the leaderboard.

After Regan's dance, a bit of commotion could be heard between the judges as the commentator ad-libbed and continued to make pun references to Regan's dance to Little Mix and CNCO's track Reggaetón Lento (Bailemos).

The camera then panned over to the four judges who were sitting and waiting to give their scores.

Chris pointed out the blunder (ITV)

Ashley Banjo started, giving his score of 8.5, whilst Oti Mabuse was next as she gave Regan nine out of 10 points. Jayne Torvill gave the dancer nine points whilst Christopher Dean also handed a nine out to Regan.

Explaining what happened in the tech blunder, he said: "I don't know what it came up with [on the front of the desk]. I put nine in and three's showing on my little remote thing - but it's a nine from me!"

That gave Regan a total score of 35.5 out of 40 points - but without Chris' nine, he could have easily been left with 29.5 points and a place much further down the leaderboard.

Regan danced to Reggaeton Lento (ITV)

Regan previously denied to The Mirror that he has any special advantage on the show because he is a trained dancer.

"It's very different from dancing. It's so different. To be dancing on the floor, you have friction and you have stability," he said.

"This is just - you don't. You're holding your core in a totally different way to how you would be dancing. Lifting people is totally different, it is a completely different skill. The ice is a completely different element."

The four judges on the ITV show (ITV)

He added: ""hat I would have during dancing, like I said the friction of the ground, is completely taken away. So I find there are parts of my body I'm using differently. When you do backward crossovers, you're using muscles that you don't usually use.

"When I'm dancing, my feet are turned out but this is quite a lot of turning in. Parts of my body I haven't really used before. It's so different."

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