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FORMER EastEnders villain Charlie Brooks has signed up to appear in Dancing on Ice, we can reveal.

Charlie, 43, who played superbitch Janine Butcher in Albert Square, is the latest star to join the ITV celebrity skate show.

Charlie Brooks has signed up to appear in Dancing on Ice
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Charlie Brooks has signed up to appear in Dancing on IceCredit: BBC / Kieron McCarron

It comes after she won I’m a Celebrity . . . in 2012.

A telly source said: “Charlie’s a brilliant signing.

"She has a huge fanbase from EastEnders and has tons of personality and feisty energy.

“The ITV bookers hope she can recreate some of her on-screen I’m a Celeb magic.

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“They are making the most of the fact many female stars have avoided Strictly this year amid all the scandal.

"It’s going to be a belting line-up.”

Charlie left BBC1’s EastEnders in 2022 and has since played the Child Catcher in a West End production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

She joins former Towie star Ferne McCann, 34, The Traitors model Mollie Pearce, 22, and soap actress Chelsee Healey, 36, in Dancing on Ice 2025.

ITV said: “The line-up will be announced in due course.”

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