Dancing on Ice and Coronation Street star Jane Danson suffers fall and faints on ice, Jane Danson History

 Jane Danson suffered a nasty fall on the ice during rehearsals on Sunday ahead of the live Dancing on Ice show. The actress had to be carried off in a stretcher, with an ITV spokesman revealing: "Jane fainted earlier today on the ice during a rehearsal for this evening's live show.

Jane Danson History

 

"IT'S SAD BUT I'VE TAKEN LEANNE AS FAR AS I CAN"

Coronation Street's Leanne Battersby has stunned producers by deciding to quit the soap.
Actress Jane Danson, who has played tearaway Leanne for three years, said last night: "It's time to move on and explore other roles.
"I'll be sad to leave the friends I've made but I feel I have taken Leanne Battersby as far as I can. I've had tremendous storylines which have really stretched me as an actress."
Frantic negotioations failed to persuade the 20-year old Jane to stay. Bosses of the ITV show even offered to make her it's highest-paid young star. But money was never an issue as she looked to the future.
Jane revealed that she agonised over whether to sign a new contract in July, then resolved not to.
Her move shocked programme makers. They had more plans for Leanne, who has already been controversially involed in abortion, casual sex and cocaine addiction.
Dismayed producer Jane Macnaught has pledged not to kill of Leanne, the first member of the Battersby family to leave the Street.
They were brought in by ex-producer Brian Park in 1997 to give the Manchester-based show a brash new look,
And bosses are sure that Leanne's scandals have boosted ratings.
At 16, she defied her parents and eloped to Gretna Green to marry teenager Nick Tilsley. She later had an abortion in an attempt to save her marriage, but had an affair too.
Three years on Leanne was still causing mayhem as a Rovers barmaid.
She has been caught up in a robbery, beaten and slept with a drug dealer to clear debts.
Now friends say Jane plans a new life in London with her actor boyfriend Robert Beck.
Robert left ITV's Emmerdale last month, in which he played bisexual Gavin Ferris.
A source close to the couple said:
"Jane's been pining for Robert since he moved back to London. They are very much in love and we wouldn't be surprised to hear wedding bells this year.
"Jane loves London and says she'll be able to go out and be ignored, where-as she can get hassle in Manchester.
"Word is that she could pop up in a major BBC series like Holby City, just like ex-Street pal Angela Griffin did."
At the Street's production HQ, Jane Macnaught said: "Jane has show immense commitment to the programme.
"She is a hugely talented actress and we are really sorry to see her go.
"We are leaving the door very much ajar for her to return at any time."

FHM October 1999 - No More Plain Jane The "victim" has always been the plum role for the hopeful TV extra - often acting as a golden ticket to the Chocolate Factory of fame. Budding starlets know that success is but a whisker away when they are chosen to be dragged out of some huge industrial accident - inevitably involving a deadly corrosive liquid - and hauled into an A&E ward on gurney. A machine starts bleeping urgently, the defibrillator paddles are warmed, someone shouts "Clear!" - and seven years of RADA training culminate in spasming realistically with a straight face. Jane Danson can claim the battered, bandaged Victim Crown. At the tender age of eight, she was strangled by Robert Lindsay's character in GBH; then she had her legs broken and set in plaster on The Ward; and was hanged in ITV series The Grand. Then, taking the well-trodden path of any female celebrity worth her salt, she was assaulted as a 14-year-old northern runaway on an episode of The Bill. The tragic list goes on and on. "I was always dripping in blood or wrapped in bandages," Jane laughs. "I've been covered in vegetable soup - posing as vomit - so many time, I haven't been able to eat it for years." Her situation hasn't improved much. Now, as rough diamond Leanne Battersby in Coronation Street, she's been impregnated, talked into an abortion against her will, witnessed a cot death and watched her marriage disintergrate. Worst of all, the man responsible was the Street's latest teen pop wannabe Adam Rickitt - but it could have been worse. "In Corie, Linda's just had an affair with Mike Baldwin. That could have been me. I'm lucky in that department - I get all the good-looking ones. I gave a sigh of relief when they handed out that role to someone else." Her thespian ill-fortune had humble beginnings - a voice over for a KP snack promotion as a mewling ten-year-old. "I had to sit there, trying to say 'These are really tasty!' through a mouthful of crisps. It was really naff - I didn't even get any free samples to take home." You may think the trappings of success - her own house in home town of Bury, people staring at her in the supermarket - would compensate for her early disappointment, but the 20-year old still has things to worry about on the nation's favourite soap. "We don't get any chocolate free from the sponsors - Cadbury's - you know. We were all after Easter eggs, but nothing. It's just like the KP snack thing all over again." TV Quick 13-19 March 1999 When teenage sweethearts Nick Tilsley an Leanne Battersby ran off to Scotland and married, no one thought they'd last. A year down the line they're still together, but they could be facing a challenge that will change their lives for ever. When she breaks the news to Nick that she may be pregnant, Leanne takes a test which confirms her fears. Now they know the truth, they have to do some serious thinking about whether they want to be parents. It's soon apparent that Nick is more than nervous about the prospect than his young wife, and he isn't entirely convinced the baby is as much of an accident as Leanne claims. This Sunday, Nick and Leanne decide they're going to keep the baby, and they spend the following day enjoying their precious secret. But once the shock has worn off and they think about the implications of becoming parents so young, will they both feel as happy about what the future has in store? 'The pregnancy is a complete accident - Leanne didn't plan it at all,' says Jane Dansonwho plays the mum-to-be. 'But once she gets used to the idea, I think Leanne is quite happy. 'Right from the start, she realises that Nick's not so certain. They haven't got a lot of money, they haven't got their own place to live, so they're not in the ideal position to have a baby. And they're very young. There's all that to take into account. 'Having said that, as far as Leanne is concerned, the situation is: "I'm pregnant, there it is. Let's just deal with it."' But at the end of the day, will Nick embrace the challenge - or want to run a mile? Inside Soap Issue 122 Leanne's pregnant, but how will Nick take to the idea of becoming a dad? Many people said that they were too young to get married, but Coronaiion Street sweethearts Nick and Leanne Tilsley proved the sceptics wrong to become one of the most solid couples in Weatherfield. But for how much longer? This fortnight, Leanne is shocked to discover that she is pregnant - and actress Jane Danson, who plays the mum-to-be, reckons it's going to be make or break time for the young couple. "This is the thing which is either going to pull them together or pull them apart," says Jane. Personally, I always thought they got married too young, but people do make a go of things at their age, so who knows? It would be hard, but it is possible that it could be the making of them. "That said, it's a big thing to deal with at their age and they are understandably quite apprehensive about it. Secretly, I think Leanne is rather pleased about being pregnant but I have to say that I'm not so sure about Nick." It's not long before the couple's friends and family start voicing their opinions ' about the big news. "Everyone starts sticking thier oar in," reveals Jane. "Nick and Leanne end up taking all their opinions on board instead of focusing on each other. Everything begins to get confused in their minds after that." Whatever they may decide, the long-term forecast for the couple is not too rosy. Adam Rickitt, who plays Nick, has announced that he will be leaving Corrie in a few months' time to pursue a music career. "I'm going to really miss working with Adam," admits Jane. "You become good mates when you work together in a job like this. It was the same when Jo Froggatt, who played Zoe, left. "However, it is really exciting for me as hopefully it will mean that we'll see some big changes for Leanne. I only had a few months of Leanne being single before she got together with Nick, so I'm looking forward to seeing her beign more her own person again. Who knows? Maybe she will rebel and turn into a real man-eater!" While Leanne is heading for big changes, Jane admits that the long-term forecast for the her life has been rather less eventful since starting on the Street almost two years ago. "It's funny - sometimes I think that the two years have just flown by, and then sometimes I feel like I've been here forever," she says. "But there have been no dramatic changes in my life just because I'm on television. I've had to get used to people pointing at me and that sort of thing, but I still go out to the same places that I used to and I still do things like go to my mum and dad's for my tea." One thing that certainly hasn't changed is Jane' relationship status. The pretty 20-year-old is still single. "There is still no one, she sighs. "Adam is the same. I think we must be the only two on Coronation Street who don't have anyone!" So presumably any plans of following Leanne's example and starting a family of her own are some way off? "Certainly not for a long time!" she laughs. "I can hardly do it on my own, can I?" FHM February 1999 Some actresses believe in truly suffering for their art - and Jane Danson is one of them. "I've been strangled, hung, fallen down a hillside and broken both legs," says the 20-year-old Mancunian as she reels off the indignities she's been forced to endure since making her TV breakthrough in an episode of GBH. And after joining the cast of Coronation Street nearly two years ago, Jane has tolerated everything at being spat at by jealous of her on-screen romance with Corrie heart-throb Adam Rickkit, to her character Leanne Tilsley's pink streaks and "second-hand Spice Girl" look. But while Leanne has more or less put her wild ways behind her in favour of married life, Jane has been single for more than a year. "Not through choice," she sighs, citing pressures of work - although she admits that she's got her eye on someone and is waiting for him to make the first move. "He knows I fancy him," she laughs, her 5ft3in frame shaking uncontrollably. But despite much probing, Jane steadfastly refuses to divulge any other details, except that her mystery man is a celebrity. So until this plonker asks her out, she's spending her nights alone in her new three-bedroom semi near Bury, sharing her pink and pine bedroom with a stuffed bunny to remind her of home. And what do her neighbours think about the famous girl-next-door? "I haven't met them, to be honest," she says, collapsing into another fit of giggles.