Skating on Thin Ice was a short-lived Australia

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Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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Celebrity

A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media...

 reality television

Reality television

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 programme broadcast on the Nine Network

Nine Network

The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

 in 2005. Hosted by Jamie Durie

Jamie Durie

Jamie Durie is an Australian landscaper and television personality. Formerly a prominent personality for the Nine Network, Durie has hosted a variety of programs for them, mostly "lifestyle" shows, such as Backyard Blitz, Renovation Rescue and The Block.Jamie previously was the host of the Seven...

, nine celebrities learnt to skate with the ultimate goal being to perform with Disney on Ice

Disney on Ice

Disney On Ice is a touring ice show produced by Feld Entertainment under agreement with The Walt Disney Company. Aimed primarily at children, the shows feature figure skaters dressed as Disney cartoon characters in performances that each derive their music and plot from elements collected from...

, with proceeds going toward children's charity, CanTeen

CanTeen

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.

The celebrities included:

• Deni Hines
  Deni Hines
  Dohnyale "Deni" Sharon Hines is a solo R&B artist who had chart success in the 1990s in Australia and New Zealand. She is the daughter of Marcia Hines....
  
   - singer
• Kim Kilbey - presenter
• Imogen Bailey
  Imogen Bailey
  Imogen Bailey is an Australian model, actress and singer. She is currently based in Sydney and is best known for her role on the long-running Australian soap Neighbours as Nicola West.-Modeling:...
  
   - model
• James Blundell
  James Blundell (singer)
  -Music:He won a Golden Guitar Award for best new talent of 1987.Blundell's eponymous first album, in 1989, followed up by "Hand It Down", which was released in the United States in 1990 following its success in Australia. Successive albums were This Road and Touch of Water. This Road included the...
  
   - singer
• Belinda Green
  Belinda Green
  Belinda Roma Green won the 1972 Miss World contest, representing Australia, at the age of 20.Growing up in Sydney, she became the second woman from her country to win the title; the first, Penelope Plummer, was crowned Miss World in 1968...
  
   - former beauty queen
• Regina Bird
  Regina Bird
  Regina "Reggie" Bird was a contestant and winner of Big Brother 2003 Australia. Small in stature with an unusual nasal intonation, she earned public admiration with her down-to-earth charm, strong work ethic, and naivety...
  
   - Big Brother 3 winner
• Vince Sorrenti
  Vince Sorrenti
  Vince Sorrenti is one of Australia’s best known and leading comic entertainers, a respected and successful Australian stand-up comedian from Punchbowl, New South Wales. He is of Italian heritage. Sorrenti performs at many functions and events, such as the AFL Grand Final Breakfast...
  
   - comedian
• David Whitehill
  David Whitehill
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   - presenter of Hot Source
• Peter Everett
  Peter Everett
  Peter Everett is an Australian television host. He hosted the Australian adaptation of cook show Ready Steady Cook on Network Ten. He is known for appearing on Changing Rooms which aired on the Nine Network in 1998. He also took part in the reality figure skating series Skating on Thin Ice in...
  
   - presenter and home designer

Nine revived the concept more successfully in 2006 as Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice

Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice

Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice is an Australian reality television series which was based on the original British version, Dancing on Ice. The series premiered on the Nine Network on Tuesday, 11 July 2006 at , and involved celebrities ice dancing on a specially constructed ice rink located in...

, also hosted by Durie.