Dancing on Ice coach Karen Barber has said the show is doing well without Jason Gardiner. Barber told a tabloid newspaper that she has not spoken to the acid-tongued choreographer following their on-air spat during the show last year.

Gardiner told Karen: "If your opinion still mattered, you'd be on the panel." Karen told the Daily Mirror that she believes that the ice dance show is doing well with Jason and his outspoken criticism.