Skating with Celebrities is an American figure skating talent show that began airing on Fox on January 18, 2006. The show also aired in Australia on Network Ten in early 2006 and in New Zealand in October 2008. The show was the U.S. version of Dancing on Ice, which also aired in the United Kingdom during the same time period. Skating with Celebrities was met with far less success than the British original and lasted only one season. The show was at the center of a controversy involving allegations that one of the competing couples, Lloyd Eisler and Kristy Swanson, were involved in an extramarital affair. The duo defeated the team of television personality Jillian Barberie and U.S. pairs champion John Zimmerman to win the show's first - and only - championship. On March 2, 2006, production was cancelled and it was announced that the show would not return for a second season. Synopsis Following the success of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, Fox started airing its own celebrity competition revolving around skating instead of dancing. The show produced by Rob Dustin paired six champion figure skaters with six celebrities who have various degrees of skating experience, including Deborah Gibson, a novice; Dave Coulier, who played ice hockey in Canada; Kristy Swanson, who had taken lessons as a child; and Jillian Barberie, who had training as a competitive figure skater into her teens. Each team was composed of one man and one woman together as a pair, and they were 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. Cast Celebrities and their partners Hosts & judges The show was hosted by Olympic champion swimmer Summer Sanders and Olympic gold medal figure skater Scott Hamilton and judged by Olympic figure skating legend Dorothy Hamill, skating coach John Nicks, and journalist Mark Lund. Former pair skater Randy Gardner served as choreographer. Averages Technical and Artistic are one skate each Episodes Episode 1 The Featured Skill was Spins. In this episode, teams skated to music from the movies. During rehearsal, Dave Coulier, a hockey player, was frustrated at the fact that he kept tripping