Dancing on Ice, episode three: Disco Week shocker sees Hollyoaks actress Stephanie Waring sent home

• Soap actress Stephanie Waring eliminated after surprise skate-off defeat to singer Lemar

• Serial reality star Jake Quickenden topped the scoreboard and looks favourite for title

• Bucks Fizz diva Cheryl Baker was bottom again but saved by viewer votes

• All the couples skated on same show for the first time

Everyone had Sunday night fever for Disco Week on the rink. Here's all the talking points and social media reaction from episode three...

Stephanie Waring becomes second celebrity sent home

She's looked pretty petrified during both outings on the ice but Hollyoaks actress Stephanie Waring can still consider herself unlucky to be eliminated so soon. Her white-clad wobble around the rink to Earth, Wind & Fire's After The Love Has Gone scored 17.5pts and left her fifth from bottom of the scoreboard, but a lack of viewer votes meant she plummeted into the bottom two. 

Even after a stiff skate-off, she looked better than Lemar, especially when he stumbled at the end of his routine. Yet the ice panel were split and head judge Jayne Torvill's casting vote saw the Mancunian actress become the second celebrity sent home.

Waring joins Bake Off's Candice Brown on the skating scrapheap. Male celebrities certainly have the ascendancy in this contest. I blame the patriarchy.

Lemar and Cheryl can count themselves lucky

Crooner Lemar was parachuted into the contest late, after cricketer Monty Panesar broke his ankle in training, so he's playing catch-up. He duly appeared in the dance-off for the second consecutive week.

Despite tripping over at the climax of his "save-me skate", he somehow miraculously survived. Yet he looks unsteady and uncomfortable on the ice and is surely for the chop soon.

Cheryl Baker, meanwhile, seems to be getting this year's sympathy votes. The bubbly Bucks Fizzer has finished bottom of the scoreboard both times she's skated but been saved by viewers. A winning personality and misty-eyed memories of Eurovision skirt-ripping go a long way, it seems.  

At 63, Baker is the oldest celebrity in the contest by a clear two decades, so deserves some support. She also has warm, winning chemistry with popular pro partner Daniel Whiston - and clung onto him for dear life during their Abba routine. Come Monday morning, Whiston might find some Baker hand-shaped bruises on his shoulders. 

Could Jake Quickenden finally win a reality contest?

He appeared in two series of The X Factor and was a runner-up on I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here. Now might serial contest-botherer Jake Quickenden finally win one?

After an infectious routine crammed with content, cartwheels and breakdance moves, the strapping lad from Scunthorpe topped the leaderboard with 27.5pts, the highest score of the series so far. He's now bookies' favourite for the Dancing On Ice crown.

"Me nipples are like bullets after that worm," Quickenden announced. Too much information but bravo for the skating. 

Torvill and Dean were scoring copycats

It was reminiscent of how Bruno Tonioli and Len Goodman used to be on Strictly Come Dancing. The right hand side of the ice panel, Olympic heroes Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, couldn't stop awarding the same score. Their marks were identical for nine out of 11 couples - and even in the other two, they were only half a point apart.

It meant that each round of scoring ended with thudding predictability. I know they're soulmates who are always in sync but this was ridiculous. Presenters Pip 'n' Holly even felt the need to mention it.

Torvill's comments were also repeatedly bland and rather boring. Perhaps the much-loved pair would be better as coaches than judges after all.

Disco theme was thoroughly flogged

This episode began with a frankly demented group number, complete with blue-haired pros, alien-helmeted backing dancers and Bacofoil sci-fi outfits. The judges joined in with disco pointing. Jason Gardiner was hoisted aloft doing the splits, his rictus grin resembling somebody who'd just strained a groin, ripped his slacks or had a hernia. 

It signalled the start of disco theming overload. Seventies song titles were crowbarred into the script at every turn. There was even a special retro font on the title cards, with the show billed as "Disco On Ice". Viewers were certainly in no danger of missing what the theme was.

Donna Air was most improved skater

She was announced, somewhat humiliatingly, as the "Byker Grove star" - even though her stint in the kiddie soap finished fully 25 years ago and all traces of her Geordie accent have mysteriously vanished.

Yet Donna Air shone on the ice tonight, striking some elegant shapes during her silver jumpsuited Chaka Khan routine. It was a six-point improvement on last week and meant she finished joint second on the scoreboard. Air also looks to be thoroughly enjoying herself.

Along with Perri Shakes-Drayton, she's the female in with the best shot of breaking the male domination. 

Kem was over-marked, Antony was arrogant

Did Kem Cetinay's comedy routine, clad in a furry pimp coat and featuring old-school bottom-spanking, really deserve 23.5pts and joint second place on the scoreboard? Probably not. As the reigning champion of fellow ITV franchise Love Island, there were rumblings online that he was getting preferential treatment. "You were like a wasp in a bottle," said judge Christopher Dean. "But, erm, a really good wasp."

Not as many rumblings, though, as about Coronation Street actor Antony Cotton's bad attitude. He kept interrupting both presenters and judges, took criticism badly and generally acted like a sulky schoolboy. But it was deeply unfortunate when Christopher Dean announced: "Antony, you're bent". Awkward.

Virtual scoreboard needs to go

Typical ITV. Rather than an old-fashioned, easy-to-read leaderboard graphic, producers opted for a flashy virtual one, with the couples lined up on the ice like a Sky Sports football formation.

Just two problems: it had to be split into two, so viewers couldn't get an overall picture of the standings. And it also malfunctioned at a crucial moment, leaving host Philip Schofield visibly irritated. Time to admit defeat, abandon the gimmick and keep it simple.