James Jordan claims ‘Dancing On Ice’ has ruined his sex life.
The former ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ star – who is married to fellow dancer Ola Jordan – has shed more than two stone while training for the skating competition, but his spouse isn’t very impressed as she prefers him to be "thickset".
He said: "I would love to tell you that we’ve been going at it like rabbits since I lost all the weight but the opposite is the truth.
"It’s nice that I can see it again and bound up the stairs, but our love life has taken a beating. Ola actually prefers me more thickset."
The 40-year-old dancer – who piled on the pounds after quitting ‘Strictly’ in 2013 – admitted Ola has even been splashing out on his favourite foods in a bid to stop him losing weight.
He told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: "If there is food in front of me I’m eating it.
"Before Christmas, Ola went out and bought loads of chilli Doritos and chocolates, including a big box of Quality Street.
"I scoffed the lot in a couple of days so she had to go out and buy it all again."
James and his partner Alexandra Schauman topped the leaderboard on last week’s ‘DOI’, but he admitted he is still "terrified" of being on the ice because he has so little skating experience.
He said: "People need to understand how bad I was when I started preparing for this three months ago. I was ‘cling on to the edge of the ice rink’ bad.
"I was so useless I actually phoned my parents to ask if I had ever been ice skating before. They told me, ‘We took you once when you were a kid but you fell over and hit your head and we couldn’t get you to go again after that’.
"I am still terrified of ice skating to be honest. Every time I build up any speed I feel out of control.
"And when I lift Alex I am paranoid about dropping her because I am convinced that if I do drop her I am going to kill her."
And the former ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ contestant insisted his dance background hasn’t been the advantage people have claimed.
He said: "It’s completely unfair to say that having me on the show makes it a fix. What people don’t realise is that the way you move your body on ice is completely different to how you move it as a dancer.
"If I positioned my feet the way I dance in the same way on skates I would fall on my face. So I’ve had to re-learn everything.
"Yes, I have improved since I started training but so have all the other contestants. And what I’ve learned is that ice skating is really, really difficult…
"I want to skate faster and be more graceful but just turning on skates is scary and it really hurts when you fall. And my background actually counts against me in some ways.
"There are a huge number of things they have asked me to do that I simply can’t because my body is so beat up from all the years of dancing."
James Jordan: Ola prefers me ‘thickset’
