Christopher Colin Dean, OBE, is a British ice dancer. He won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partner Jayne Torvill. Dean grew up in Calverton, Nottinghamshire. His mother left him when he was six and his father remarried.
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Christopher Colin Dean, OBE, is a British ice dancer. He won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partner Jayne Torvill. Dean grew up in Calverton, Nottinghamshire. His mother left him when he was six and his father remarried. Dean never talked about this with his father or stepmother, both of whom have died. He has regained contact with his mother. Dean was portrayed by Will Tudor in the biopic Torvill & Dean, released in 2011. Dean has been in a relationship with Karen Barber since 2011. In 2018, Dean choreographed the free program of Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot, who won the gold medal in Pair skating with a world record at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
He is also the chief choreographer for the Torvill and Dean team in the ITV show Dancing on Ice, which runs from January to March each year and then goes on tour to arenas across the United Kingdom. Dean and Torvill turned professional after their 1984 Olympic win. Under then existing Olympic Games rules as professionals they became ineligible to participate in Olympic competition.
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