Are Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean married?

FANS of Torvill and Dean will well remember the hypnotic Bolero routine which saw them win Gold at the Winter Olympics in 1984.

Due to the intimate nature of the dance, and also their close relationship, people have long since wondered if Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean are married.

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Are Torvill and Dean a couple?

People often think Torvill and Dean are a couple but the duo insist they only briefly snogged as teenagers and never got together.

For years the two youngsters practised at the same skating centre, but with different partners.

They only teamed up in 1975 when they both found themselves without partners, and Chris’s coach suggested they try getting together.

Chris was 16, and already training to be a policeman, and Jane was 17 and a clerk in an insurance firm.

And despite decades of denials that their had ever been any spark of romance between them, five years ago Jayne admitted that she lost her heart — briefly.

In their autobiography Our Life On Ice, Jane recalled of that day: “When I first saw Chris, I fell in love with him. But then we started skating together, that was it, it was done.”

However, Chris revealed that just once, their all-business attitude slipped — when in the back of a coach as teenagers “there might have been some kissing”.

But on the ice, they knew they were a perfect match, with Jayne having the dancing skills to pull off the creativity of Chris’s choreography.

Have Torvill and Dean ever been married?

The pair have never take their relationship further than that one kiss when they were kids.

Both have kept their relationship strictly professional.

During their time as skating partners, they have both settled down with other people.

Who is Jayne Torvill’s husband?

Jayne is married to husband Phil Christensen.

The couple wed back in 1990 and have been married ever since.

They have two children – Kieran and Jessica – who are both adopted.

Who is Christopher Dean’s partner?

Christopher lives in Colorado Springs, America with his partner and former Dancing On Ice judge Karen Barber.

Christopher was previously married to the French Canadian skater Isabelle Duchesnay from 1991 to 1993.

The pair met while he was choreographing for her and her brother Paul Duchesnay in the late 1980s.

From 1994 to 2010 he was married to American skater Jill Trenary with whom he has two sons – Jack Robert and Sam Colin.

It was confirmed in March 2010 that the couple had separated, but still till this day remain on good terms.