Dancing On Ice host Holly Willoughby announces huge shake up to to the way viewers vote for their favourite skating duo

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Dancing On Ice burst back onto our screens on Sunday night, and with it came a surprise. For the first time in history, voting will be free and only available online.

Hosts Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern stood side by side as Holly told viewers: ‘This series, for the first time ever, voting is online only and it’s totally free.’

Stephen, 46, turned to Holly, 42, with exaggerated shock and asked: ‘Free? As in you don’t pay anything?’

A tickled Holly cheekily replied: ‘That’s what ‘free’ means!’

ITV has opened a general page where you can choose which of their programmes you would like to vote in.

Dancing On Ice burst back onto our screens on Sunday night, and with it came a surprise. For the first time in history, voting will be free and only available online

Dancing On Ice burst back onto our screens on Sunday night, and with it came a surprise. For the first time in history, voting will be free and only available online

Hosts Holly Willoughby, 42, and Stephen Mulhern, 46, stood side by side as Holly told viewers: 'This series, for the first time ever, voting is online only and it’s totally free'

Hosts Holly Willoughby, 42, and Stephen Mulhern, 46, stood side by side as Holly told viewers: ‘This series, for the first time ever, voting is online only and it’s totally free’

Stephen, 46, turned to Holly, 42, with exaggerated shock and asked: 'Free? As in you don’t pay anything?' And she joked back: 'That’s what 'free' means!'

Stephen, 46, turned to Holly, 42, with exaggerated shock and asked: ‘Free? As in you don’t pay anything?’ And she joked back: ‘That’s what ‘free’ means!’

Then, all fans have to do is enter their phone number, receive a verification code, then enter that as well.

At the time of publication, the only options are Dancing On Ice and Love Island: All Stars, which begins on Monday.

ITV’s ice skating programme returned with a sixteenth series and featured judges Ashley Banjo, Christopher Dean, Jayne Torvill, and Oti Mabuse.

It will see six celebrities take to the ice for the live show – and no one will be voted off until next week.

Contestants S Club 7 star Hannah Spearritt, former Coronation Street actor Ryan Thomas, Emmerdale actress Roxy Shahidi, Love Island and West End star Amber Davies, former boxer Ricky Hatton, and Olympian Greg Rutherford are all set to perform.

This series also marks Holly’s return to television and she gave a ‘huge welcome’ to Stephen, supporting her through as a permanent presenter.

Holly left This Morning in October after 14 years on the breakfast programme. She has been hosting Dancing On Ice since 2006.

Dancing On Ice airs Sundays at 6:30 pm and you can catch up on ITVX. To vote for your favourite celebrity visit http://www.itv.com/vote or http://www.stv.tv/vote.

ITV has opened a general page where you can choose which of their programmes you would like to vote in

ITV has opened a general page where you can choose which of their programmes you would like to vote in

Then, all fans have to do is enter their phone number, receive a verification code, then enter that as well

Then, all fans have to do is enter their phone number, receive a verification code, then enter that as well

ITV's ice skating programme returned with a sixteenth series and featured judges Ashley Banjo, Christopher Dean, Jayne Torvill, and Oti Mabuse

ITV’s ice skating programme returned with a sixteenth series and featured judges Ashley Banjo, Christopher Dean, Jayne Torvill, and Oti Mabuse

Dancing On Ice airs Sundays at 6:30 pm and you can catch up on ITVX. To vote for your favourite celebrity visit http://www.itv.com/vote or http://www.stv.tv/vote

Dancing On Ice airs Sundays at 6:30 pm and you can catch up on ITVX. To vote for your favourite celebrity visit http://www.itv.com/vote or http://www.stv.tv/vote

Judge Ashley Banjo rose to fame on Britain’s Got Talent as the leader of dance troupe Diversity.

Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean make Torvill And Dean, Olympic gold medallists in ‘Ice Dancing’.

Oti Mabuse, who welcomed her first child in December, has a long dancing career, and worked on Strictly Come Dancing.

Her sister, Motsi Mabuse, is a judge on Strictly Come Dancing.

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