Skating With Celebrities

Skating With the Celebrities or sometimes called Skating with Celebrities was a short lived precursor to Skating with the Stars.

Broadcast
FOX 2006

Hosts
Summer Sanders

Scott Hamilton

Gameplay
The show paired six champion figure skaters with six celebrities who have various degrees of skating experience: Deborah Gibson, a novice; Dave Coulier played ice hockey in Canada; Kristy Swanson had taken lessons as a child; Jillian Barberie trained as a competitive figure skater into her teens. Each team was composed of one man and one woman and they had to perform a new routine during each episode. As part of their new routines, each celebrity had to demonstrate a specific figure skating skill.

Each pair received scores for technical merit and artistic impression from a trio of judges. The scores were added together to create a cumulative score. No teams were eliminated in the first episode.

Inventor
Based on the Austrailian game show, Dancing on Ice. That also aired in the UK