We took to the ice with Torvill and Dean ahead of their farewell tour

The 14th of February is a day that many of us celebrate our love for our partners, but for ice skating legends Torvill and Dean, it is known as Bolero Day as it was the date in 1984 that they won gold in the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

On the 40th anniversary of that moment, they announced that they would be retiring from performing next year and embarking on a tour celebrating their 50-year skating partnership and the iconic moments that have earned them the title of the world's greatest ice skating duo.

Ahead of their tour coming to Belfast for three performances in April, the duo stopped by the SSE Arena to chat to Belfast Live and put our political reporter on thin ice - literally.

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"When you say 50 years, gosh, that's a long time, but also you go, that was 50 years, just like that," Christopher Dean said.

"I think we're ready to do our last tour. I think whilst we can still feel fit and we can still skate in a way that we want to be able to see, I think this final tour is the right time for us."

This isn't the first time that the skating duo have called it quits as back in 1998, the pair decided to hang up their skates and Christopher moved to the US and Jayne focused on her family. However, back in 2006, the pair reunited as Dancing on Ice hit our screens on ITV which would eventually lead them to perform once again.

"In '98, we decided that that's when we were going to quietly retire, and we both had other things and so on," Jayne Torvill said.

"But then we got this phone call asking if they thought we could teach celebrities to skate, and we said no, no, no.

"When we first started the series, we were choreographing all the routines and then one of our producers said, Would you mind demonstrating some of the moves on camera? And we said, no, that's fine. They said, could you demonstrate them to the music? And we were like, well, that's like a routine. And she went, yeah. And so we ended up performing again, but once we started it, we just enjoyed it so much."

The pair told us that they credit the show for keeping them fit and said that their upcoming tour will be "nostalgic".

"We're going to take everybody back to the beginning where we started, and then we're going to go through some of our iconic pieces up to today," Christopher added.

"But we have 15 other world professional skaters that are going to be accompanying us and helping tell that story.

"We've got big multimedia screens, really talented skaters, and so I think it's going to be an inspirational night and it's going to be a celebration at the same time."

Torvill and Dean will be back on UTV every Sunday night in early 2025, as Head Judges on the 17th series of Dancing on Ice. but as for our political reporter, he is probably better suited to Strictly Come Dancing.

Video by Harry Bateman/Belfast Live

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