Ice pair given frosty reception

Surveillance: Monkey took to the ice at Lee Valley Ice centre in Leyton, east London last week only to find that half the rink has been commandeered by an ITV film crew. Being put through their paces were two of the celebs for this year's Dancing on Ice - Gareth Gates and Linda Lusardi. Just imagine. Gates was easily the better skater on this evidence, pirouetting and spinning and, pretty much everything else besides with his dance partner, while lovely Linda was taking things a bit more gently and barely managed anything beyond skating hand in hand with her partner. The rest of the punters were a bit peeved, mind, finding things a little bit crowded with only half the rink to play with.