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10 May, 2025
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'It's an honour to play the young Torvill and Dean'
@Source: bbc.com
Isla and Lewis are coached by their mums - sisters Suzanne Otterson-MacDonald and Gillian Forsyth. Suzanne represented Team GB at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. Gillian was a British champion in her own skating days. Suzanne told BBC Scotland News: "It's a massive honour for them to get this opportunity and be with these icons on tour. "They had heard of them, but it was more my era of skating so I was able to tell them about them. "They are on quite early in the show playing the young Chris [Dean] and Jayne [Torvill] and getting together at first after being single skaters." Both cousins are advance novice skaters and both have British championship titles under their belts as well as international medals. They train six days a week but they are both individual figure skaters, not ice dancers. Like the partnership they play in the show, they had to be brought together for the ice dancing magic to happen. Lewis said: "We've not skated together before – we are figure skaters so we had to train the basics on how to skate together and then come to rehearsals to learn what we are going to do in the show. "We were asked by the company to do it because they knew we were quite close and loved skating and knew we were cousins. "I think everyone is quite gobsmacked that we are able to do this and it is such an honour to do it."
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