JOE Swash has revealed he’ll celebrate tonight’s Dancing On Ice finale by going on a huge boozy bender after being sober for four months.
The telly star, 38, has warned he’ll be like a teenager again when he hits the bar: win or lose.
Joe Swash has revealed he’ll celebrate tonight’s Dancing On Ice finale by going on a huge boozy bender after being sober for four months
Speaking to the Daily Star, he said: “I’ve told Stacey after the final is finished she is going to take the kids home, and then I don’t want them to see me after that because I’ll be having a drink and it’s going to be bad.
“I’ve not had a drink for four months, so I’m going to be like a drunk 17-year-old.”
Joe is going head to head with Perri Kiely and Paralympian Libby Clegg, but the Diversty dancer is the overwhelming favourite.
In a recent interview with The Sun Online, Joe said he will take girlfriend Stacey Solomon and their baby Rex on holiday after tonight’s finale.
He admitted he’s been “absent” for the past four months as he trained for the ITV show and wants to make it up to his family.
Joe is whisking his family on holiday after the Dancing on Ice finale
Ahead of Rex’s first birthday in May, Joe said they’re going on a family trip to bond.
“I need to go home and reconnect with my kids.”
“I feel like I had a baby and then just disappeared for the last four months. He’s adorably cute, I’m so lucky.
“So me and Stace have got a holiday booked after Dancing on Ice finishes because it’s Rex’s birthday soon.
“We’ve also got a project we’re working on together – the first time we’ve done something together. That’s exciting.
Baby Rex will be a year old in May
“But apart from that I’m just going to try and have a lie in.”
He then joked: “So I’ve got the final to look forward to and then meeting the son I never met! It’s amazing.”
Joe’s position in the finale was threatened last week when he was rushed to hospital with a serious ear infection.
He’s now been forced to wear a head bandage to protect himself as he rehearses.
Stacey has found Joe’s head bandage hilarious
“It’s like a rugby player or a boxer with cauliflower ears,” Joe told The Sun Online.
“It all swelled up and got really infected.
“The paramedic looked at it and said ‘you’re in trouble mate you’ve got to go to the hospital immediately’.
“They had to drain it then cut the back out to get s*** out of it.
“When I saw the bandage, I thought ‘surely this is overkill’, but they say I’ve got to wear it all week.
“I can only take it off on Sunday for the performance – and they’re saying they want me to put it on for the wrap party. I’m not putting it back on!
“I look like Princess Leia with half a hairdo… Stacey hasn’t given me much sympathy.”
Stacey’s been in hysterics at his new look – and even likened him to Mother Teresa.
- Dancing on Ice’s finale airs tonight at 6pm on ITV
