Fans should make the most of next weekend’s Dancing on Ice final – because it could be the show’s last ever episode.

Judges Torvill and Dean have now hung up their skates after giving a tearful live performance on the ITV programme last month… And channel insiders say the Sunday night series, presented by Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern, is likely to be dropped for next year after sinking to its lowest ever ratings – a far cry from its heyday when 12million tuned in.

Last year, the show scored its smallest live audience of all time when 2.9 million tuned in to one episode, a drop of 700,000 on the 3.6 million who’d watched the opener a few weeks earlier. This year, the show could only manage 2.9 million for the launch, and by the fifth episode another half a million viewers had melted away, leaving just 2.4 million.