The Dancing On Ice stars caught Kissing In Street: So perhaps Karen Barber and Christopher Dean might stop denying they're an item

By Sara Nathan and Ben Todd



Clinch: Dancing On Ice colleagues Christopher Dean and Karen Barber embrace in public but they have denied any romantic link


Smooching in the street after a cosy dinner, maybe it’s time that Christopher Dean and his Dancing On Ice colleague Karen Barber stopped denying they are an item.

The couple have always maintained that they are no more than close friends, but their tender kisses outside a restaurant suggest otherwise.

Dean, 52, who stars on the ITV talent show with his Olympic skating partner Jayne Torvill, split last year from his second wife, U.S. skater Jill Trenary.


Miss Barber, 49, a former skating professional who helps mentor the celebrities on the show after being axed as a judge, is still married to Stephen Pickavance, a trainer on Dancing On Ice.

A source told the Daily Mail: ‘Karen and Chris’s closeness has been an open secret among everyone on the show.

'They obviously care about each other a great deal.’


Close: Dean split from his second wife last year, while Miss Barber is still married


Last year, it was revealed that Miss Barber had spent five nights at Dean’s rented flat near the show’s former studios in Elstree, Hertfordshire, while Mr Pickavance was in Lancashire teaching northern contestants.

At the time, a spokesman for Miss Barber described any suggestion of a romantic link as ‘nuts’ and said the couple had been ‘family friends for years’.

Yesterday Dean declined to comment on their relationship.

Miss Barber has two daughters, Emma and Laura, who are 17 and 19.

Dean has two sons, Jack, 12, and Sam, ten, who live with their mother in Colorado Springs.

He was previously married to former world skating champion Isabelle Duchesnay from 1991 to 1993.

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