Ryan Thomas crowned winner of Celebrity Big Brother
Former Coronation Street star Ryan Thomas is reportedly the latest name added to the Dancing On Ice 2024 lineup.
The 39-year-old dad of three, who shares two children with TOWIE star Lucy Mecklenburgh and a daughter with former Corrie co-star Tina O’Brien, played Jason Grimshaw in the ITV soap but left the Cobbles back in 2016.
He would join the already announced contestants – boxer Ricky Hatton, 44, former S Club 7 singer Hannah Spearritt, 42, West End and Love Island star Amber Davis, 26, and current Coronation Street Star Claire Sweeney, 52.
“Ryan has a big personality so will make cracking reality TV,” a source told The Sun.
Although the show doesn’t return until January, contestants are already being announced by ITV, although Ryan’s participation is yet to be confirmed.
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Express.co.uk contacted ITV who declined to comment saying that “any names linked are purely speculative”.
This wouldn’t be Ryan’s first foray into reality TV as he appeared in The Games last year and previously triumphed in Celebrity Big Brother on Channel 5 in 2018.
Unfortunately, his experience on that show was tainted when fellow housemate Roxanne Pallett accused him of deliberately hurting her, later admitting she got it wrong.
Ryan was slapped with a formal warning and made to sleep in a room away from the rest of the house when the 40-year-old claimed he hit her “like a boxer punches a bag” during a play fight.
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Viewers leapt to Ryan’s defence and the incident prompted more than 25,000 Ofcom complaints, making it the most complained-about TV show of the decade.
Roxanne later admitted she got it wrong and decided to leave the house on Day 17.
Ryan went on to win the show and said he was “glad” the Big Brother house had “24-hour surveillance”.
He said in his exit interview: “It was a sign of affection… there was nothing in it.
“As it unravelled, as it became bigger and bigger, then it scared me. We all know how something like that can stick on a man.”
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