Stephen Mulhern has been on our TV screens for a few years, however the Dancing on Ice presenter is feeling the stress like by no means earlier than – and it’s all due to his co-host Holly Willoughby.
The 46-year-old was anxious about “wanting like an fool” if he wore one thing that clashed along with his glamorous colleague’s garments. The answer? They alternate WhatsApp messages to co-ordinate their outfits forward of every present. “I say to Holly: ‘What are you sporting this week?’ so we will get a little bit of a color scheme occurring,” Stephen informed HELLO! at London’s Toy Honest, the place he was selling Large Sky Video games, an organization he owns along with his brother.
© ShutterstockHe stated he had been clueless about how passionate Dancing on Ice’s followers are about his co-star’s type: “I didn’t realise how a lot they love what Holly wears and that they watch the present due to all that.”
Because of this, he will get a “heads-up” from her every week so he can meticulously plan his outfit. “You possibly can’t get away with the identical go well with and even the identical color. It’s acquired to be actually accompanying what Holly is sporting as a result of in any other case, I’m going to appear to be an fool.”
© GettyRegardless of the sartorial stress, Stephen was “loving” being reunited on display screen along with his good good friend of 20 years, a “dream associate”, he informed us. When requested to listing her finest qualities, he didn’t hesitate for a second: “She is gorgeous and she or he has an important sense of humour. She’s caring. I feel she’s an incredible mum. For me, she’s the whole package deal. She’s an incredible good friend. We’re there for one another.”
The 2 first labored collectively in 2004, once they had been “discovering our ft”, on kids’s TV present Holly & Stephen’s Saturday Showdown, which ran for 2 years. “Now it’s gone full circle and it actually may be very, very particular,” Stephen stated. “It’s giving me goosebumps simply speaking about it.”
© ShutterstockThey’ve each come a good distance since these early days and now have proved successful with Dancing on Ice viewers. And, he informed us, sharing the display screen with anybody else was by no means on the playing cards. “Would I’ve achieved the present with out Holly? I don’t assume I might. And curiously, I don’t assume she would have both.”
That stated, the prospect to work along with his good good friend wasn’t the one large draw. Stephen stated watching the contestants be taught one thing new was thrilling, too.
© Getty“I like Strictly Come Dancing, I feel it’s superb. I like I’m a Movie star… Get Me Out of Right here!, it’s a superb present,” he stated. “However on Dancing on Ice, you be taught such talent.”
Nor was he averse to the thought of placing on skates and having a go himself. “Am I going to strive the ice? I’ve put it on the market. [Judge] Christopher Dean heard I used to be speaking about it, so if the producers will let me, I’ll be on the ice quickly,” he stated with amusing.
