Olympic gold medallists Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have revealed they shared a secret kiss as teenagers, but never pursued a romance. The revelation comes nearly 50 years after the pair first teamed up as skating partners.
In an interview with Radio Times, Torvill confessed: “We did actually kiss once – before we were a skating couple. We were in the back of the bus going to a league match, and it just happened.” She described it as a “one-off” that was never discussed afterwards, adding: “We laugh about it now.”
Dean, now 66, explained that their focus was always on skating. “We were 14-years-old, and teenagers in the most naive sense. We didn’t talk about it much after. The skating was everything and having a relationship just didn’t occur to us,” he said.
The duo, who met in Nottinghamshire in the 1970s, went on to win gold at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and bronze in 1993. They have been judges on Dancing On Ice since 2018.
