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Dancing On Ice judges booed over Stef Reid score as she’s praised for skating with prosthetic leg
The audience felt Stef deserved higher than a 24 (Picture: ITV)
The Dancing On Ice judges suffered the wrath of the audience after giving what they felt was a low score for Paralympian Stef Reid.
Stef made her debut on the ITV competition on Sunday night, skating alongside partner Andy Buchanan to Give It Up by KC and the Sunshine Band using a specially designed prosthetic leg.
Her first performance came hours after she suffered a nasty tumble on ice in rehearsals, but the athlete powered on anyway.
As each judge – Ashley Banjo, Christopher Dean, Jane Torvill and Oti Mabuse – scored Stef and Andy with a six leading to a total score of 24 out of 40, boos rang out in the studio.
Stef said after the performance: ‘I loved the whole thing, learning how to skate, it’s just been awesome.’
Host Holly Willoughby cut Stef some slack and pointed out that she was skating, not only with a prosthetic leg, but a new blade that was created especially for her.
Stef Reid previously praised her ‘amazing’ prosthetic (Picture: ITV)
‘Three months in the making, that’s literally cutting edge stuff,’ Holly said.
Stef weighed in: ‘Truthfully it’s been really hard, there’s not a way forward but as we progressed with it, I found the balance.’
Oti hailed Stef’s achievement on ice as ‘exceptionally inspiring’ and said other little girls would be looking to her as a role model.
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Christopher added: ‘Earlier today in rehearsal you took a massive fall in a lift and you just got back up, ran through it again and delivered that performance.’
Other stars who skated tonight included rugby player Ben Foden, Love Island star Liberty Poole and Paul Gascoigne’s son Regan Gascoigne.
Dancing On Ice airs Sunday evenings at 6:30pm.
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