Couples' Conversations from the Cellar: Torvill & Dean
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Well we had to didn't we?
Throughout February we're celebrating the best of the couples' conversations we've shared over the past seven years, and with the Winter Olympics under way in Italy we're reliving one of Team GB's most iconic moments on ice with Jane Torvill & Christopher Dean.
WE KNOW their relationship is a professional one, and a decades-long friendship - but here on White Wine Question Time we think Valentines can be for those partners in life who just make everything better - so this episode is dedicated to the best friends, mates, and pals who are always there for us no matter what!
Enjoy the conversation and good luck to the newest generation of Olympians in Milan.
Cheers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to white wine question time, the podcast that asks its guests, three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. And today we're heading back down to the cellar for another vintage episode from the archives. And across the course of February, we're celebrating the month of love by revisiting some of our |
| 0:21.6 | favourite couples, although this duo are entirely professional. And because it's the Winter |
| 0:26.6 | Olympic season, there really is no better time than to uncork this conversation. These British |
| 0:33.3 | Olympic legends won gold and became the highest scoring figure skaters of all time in the |
| 0:38.5 | 1984 Winter Olympics. An event watched by British television audiences of more than 24 million. |
| 0:45.9 | We'll hear about the sliding door moments that led to that historic event, their legacy, |
| 0:50.4 | retirement from skating and the incredible friendship that continues to this day. So come with me as |
| 0:56.3 | we head back to 2020 and sit down with Torvalindine. How are you both and where are you both? |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah, well, I'm out in Colorado in the US of LA and thanks for inviting us. It's great for us because Jane and I, you know, |
| 1:13.1 | we don't get to see each other as much as we would normally now. So we're a podcast like this, |
| 1:18.9 | we, although it's just sound, we can actually see each other as well. Well, I'm in, |
| 1:23.0 | this is great. I'm in the UK in East ofsex, having some really warm weather today, so yeah. |
| 1:30.8 | It's nice, isn't it, Jay? But where I'm sitting, it looks like you could almost be in a tropical |
| 1:36.0 | rainforest with the backdrop, but we've got behind you. Your garden is amazing. Shit, I also, |
| 1:41.4 | it's a screensaber, but it's real. |
| 1:57.2 | When I started reading back on your story, it struck me that there was this kind of almost sliding doors moment where you both discovered skating. |
| 1:59.5 | And it was almost by accident. |
| 2:02.8 | Chris, for you, it was a relatively new stepmother who bought you a pair of skates. Was it for Christmas? That's right. Yeah, no, Christmas. I lived in a little |
| 2:09.0 | village called Calverton in Nottingham and it was only 10 miles from the city centre, but it could |
| 2:14.4 | have been 100 miles because transport and getting there was very |
| 2:18.6 | far and few between. And so I got the pair of ice skates when I was 10 for Christmas. And it was |
| 2:26.3 | two weeks before I actually got to the skating rink to be able to get on the ice and try them out. |
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