Brian McFadden: Dancing On Ice star attempts to BRIBE judge in awkward exchange
BRIAN MCFADDEN, who is a contestant on Dancing On Ice 2019, attempted to bribe judge Jason Gardiner in an awkward Twitter exchange ahead of his performance tonight.
Dancing On Ice: Brian McFadden skates to Westlife's Mandy
Dancing On Ice 2019 star Brian McFadden, 38, humorously tweeted Jason Gardiner, 47, telling him he had bought him a Rolls-Royce after receiving a low score from the judge last weekend. In view of his 344,000 Twitter followers, he commented: “@officialJasonG I need your address please. “The rolls Royce I bought for you will be delivered this week. Looking forward to seeing my scores this week.” Shutting down the Westlife star’s bribery, Jason replied: “You can't even get a bribe right!
The Rolls Royce I bought for you will be delivered this week
“I prefer Bentley over Rolls. I look forward to seeing your scores too! [blowing kiss emoji].”
Brian, who dances with Alex Murphy on the show, jokingly replied: “Ah s*it!!!”
Brian’s tweet came after Jason scored him a low 3.5 out of 10 last weekend.
His fellow judges Ashley Banjo, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean each scored Brian and Alex a 5.5, bringing his total to 20 out of 40 points.
Jason told him: “If only that was as funny and good to watch as you are off the ice because you have got a good personality.
“The only problem is that it came off looking like a couple… slightly overdressed… hogging up a general skate session and what it needs to have is more of the emotion Chris [Dean] was talking about.
“Think of the literal content.”
Jason then turned to Brian’s dance partner Alex and said: “Also Alex, I don’t understand why the conscendo of such a beautiful song like that, you did nothing.
“All you did was skate up to him and grab him from behind.
“You could’ve done a lift there. You need to think of other things.”
Ahead of his performance last weekend, Brian suffered a shoulder injury which delayed his rehearsals.
An ITV spokesperson said: “Brian had an injury today. He’s partially dislocated his shoulder and damaged his rotator cuff, he cannot rehearse anymore today.”
Brian also spoke out about his injury on the show.
He said: “It’s so annoying because all the work I’ve put in to get here and I felt so good after the dress rehearsal I was like ‘yes I’m ready to go’ and then now to possibly not even being able to do the show because of an injury.
“So annoying. So frustrating. And such a stupid thing to do as well.
“If I’d have fallen over on my skates or something but just to have been practicing lifts and pop out a shoulder is ridiculous.”
Dancing On Ice continues tonight at 6pm on ITV.