Nicky Slater

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Nicky Slater
Full nameNicholas Mark Slater
Other namesNicky Slater
Born (1958-04-06) 6 April 1958 (age 66)
Liverpool, England
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Figure skating career
Country Great Britain
Skating clubRichmond Ice Dance & Figure Skating Club
Medal record
Figure skating
Ice dancing
Representing  Great Britain
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1983 Dortmund Ice dancing
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 1976 Megève Ice dancing

Nicholas Mark Slater (born 6 April 1958) is a former ice dancer and TV and theatrical performer.

Personal life

Slater's parents, Joan Dewhirst Slater and John Slater, competed together in ice dancing, winning silver at the 1952 and 1953 World Championships.[1] They were also World Professional champions.[citation needed] They retired to coach at Liverpool Rink then Manchester Ice Palace and finally Altrincham Ice Rink.

Slater attended Parr Lane County Primary School and North Cestrian Grammar School in Altrincham.[2] He is married to Christiane and has a son, Benjamin Edward 'Tiger', born in February 2008.[3][4]

Career

Competitive career

With partner Kathryn Winter, he won the 1976 World Junior Championships.[5] When that partnership ended, he teamed up with Karen Barber. They won the bronze medal at the 1983 European Championships.[6] They represented Great Britain at the 1980 Winter Olympics, placing 12th, and at the 1984 Winter Olympics, where they placed 6th. They were British ice dance champions in 1985.

Post-competitive career

Slater has produced ice events, his first being Sport Aid at the NEC in 1986 in aid of the Band Aid Trust. He conceived and produced skate-along a national skating fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis Trust launched on Blue Peter and ran ice gala tours in the UK to benefit cystic fibrosis research and as independent productions.

He was Marketing and Communications Director of The Shaftesbury Society for five years, during which time he gained a Masters in Marketing from Bristol Business School at The University of the West of England. After this he endeavoured to develop ice rinks in the UK for five years.

He has produced ice spectaculars in the US as CEO and Creative Producer with his company Adventure On Ice working in partnership with Robin Cousins and Disson Furst and Partners. Together the partnership produced:

  • Improv-Ice for USA Networks (3) *The Starskates Series (8) for NBC *Skaters Tribute to shows for ESPN (2)

In 2005, he produced and starred in The Finding a Wife Tour a UK theatre show. In 2008 he created and starred in Ice Times and toured UK theatres skating with Louise Owen and Charlotte Aitken.

Slater has also contributed to Sense-National Deafblind and Rubella Association's City Ice Skate events.

Since 2006 he has focused on developing himself as a singer-songwriter and music producer.

Television

Since his retirement from competitive skating, Slater has worked as an 'in vision' expert and commentator on ice skating for both ITV and Channel 4, and as a commentator on Star, HDTV and on British Eurosport where he has also anchored a number of shows. He has been the "surprise" on an episode of Surprise Surprise.

Slater appeared as a judge on the BBC One spin-off show Strictly Ice Dancing in 2004. This was a one-off episode which aired on Boxing Day. In 2006, he joined the ITV celebrity skating show Dancing on Ice as a judge, a role in which he continued for five years.[3] In October 2010, it was announced that Slater would not return as a judge for the sixth series in 2011. During his time on Dancing on Ice, Slater also worked on the Dancing on Ice tour.

During the final series of Dancing on Ice in early 2014, judge Robin Cousins was absent for weeks six and seven of the show due to him commentating at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Slater stepped in as judge on the show, whilst Karen Barber was acting as head judge.[7] He had previously judged The World Professional Figure Skating Championship for ABC and Strictly Ice Dancing for the BBC.

Slater continues his commentary work for Eurosport Television on Figure Skating Championships.

Singer-songwriter, writer, entertainer

From his earliest days Slater was involved in music through his parents’ ice dancing background. From his earliest recollections, he was helping his father edit music on their Ferrograph 'Reel to Reel' tape machine for ice dance performances. Drawing on that upbringing (and over ten years of development and study across areas of songwriting, singing, instruments and music production) he composes and performs his own music referencing his ice dance, theatrical and arena based performances and the productions he's been part of over the years.

In autumn 2016 he released a Christmas single and short film 'It's That Time Again', a jazz single 'Gentle Love Songs', a song and short film 'Donald and the Button of Death' under his NICKSTIR brand, posing questions about America's new president.

Slater writes from guitar, piano or voice. He works with producers in Kelowna, Canada where he emigrated with his family in 2016.

Competitive highlights

With Barber

International
Event 78–79 79–80 80–81 81–82 82–83 83–84 84–85
Olympics 12th 6th
Worlds 13th 10th 7th 7th 5th 5th 6th
Europeans 11th 8th 5th 5th 3rd 4th 4th
NHK Trophy 2nd 1st 1st
Skate America 3rd
Skate Canada 2nd 2nd
St. Ivel 3rd 2nd 2nd 1st
National
British Champ. 2nd 2nd 1st

With Winter

International
Event 1975–76
World Junior Championships 1st

References

  1. ^ "World Figure Skating Championships: Ice dance medalists" (PDF). International Skating Union.
  2. ^ "Boys school to open for girls". Manchester Evening News. 8 May 2007. Retrieved 27 February 2008.
  3. ^ a b "Dancing on Ice judge Nicky races to make the show after wife gives birth to a baby boy". Daily Mail. London. 24 February 2008. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  4. ^ Hardy, Rebecca (28 December 2012). "Dancing On Ice's Nicky Slater and wife Christiane on their devastation over unborn child's severe chromosomal disorder - and why they're hoping against hope". Daily Mail. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  5. ^ "World Junior Figure Skating Championships Results: Ice Dancing Medalists" (PDF). International Skating Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  6. ^ "European Figure Skating Championships Results: Ice Dancing Medalists" (PDF). International Skating Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  7. ^ "Dancing On Ice 2014: Where's Robin Cousins? Nicky Slater returns!". Telly Mix. Retrieved 7 January 2015.

External links

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