WEST SIDE STORY - AGGIE EXITS DANCING ON ICE

Television host Aggie Mackenzie has become the latest contestant to be voted off ITV1's Dancing on Ice.

The co-presenter of How Clean is Your House? lost out to former Olympic athlete Steve Backley after they finished in the bottom two of combined rankings from judges and viewers.

The show's judges unanimously voted to save Backley, although Jason Gardiner said "it's a shame we couldn't get rid of both of you".

Mackenzie earned just ten points from her routine to I Feel Pretty from West Side Story with partner Sergey Malyshev, with the dance being hit by a "nasty fall".

"I'm glad its all over I don't think my nerves could have taken much more," the presenter admitted afterwards.

Judge Gardiner was characteristically frank in his assessment.

"Aggie, first of all can I say in your defence, I feel pity for that song choice," he explained.

"That is a song about a young teenager experiencing love. How on earth you were going to emulate that I don't know. That didn't go well and I'm going to leave it there. I hope the viewers are not sadistic to keep you in darling."

Elsewhere ex-singer Suzanne Shaw braved a cracked rib to earn 22 points from the judges, while Hollyoaks' Chris Fountain won the judges plaudits and 25 points for his Rocky Horror Show routine.


04/02/2008 14:26:57