Brian Dowling wants to star in Dancing on Ice

Brian Dowling wants to star in Dancing on Ice
Brian Dowling wants to star in Dancing on Ice (Image credit: Dave King)

Ultimate Big Brother winner Brian Dowling has revealed he wants to take part in another reality TV show, Dancing On Ice. The two-times Big Brother winner said he would love to end his reality TV career on the ITV1 show - unless he can front his own programme about trying to win every reality show out there. Brian, who has also competed on Hell's Kitchen, said: "I have always said I would like to do Dancing On Ice because it's a great show. That could be my last reality show then I'd be done for ever. "I've kind of done everything. I've cooked, I've lived in the house twice. Why not learn to skate? Why not learn to dance as my main task? That'd be a good one too." He pondered: "Maybe I should see how many reality shows I can actually win. That could be my new show. "I've already won the same one twice." The former air steward also confessed he was still coming to terms with winning Ultimate Big Brother. "It's kind of more weird than it was the first time. It's strange - but strange in a good way," he said. "I was in the reality show Hell's Kitchen and I said 'no more' - and then obviously Big Brother came up, they paid me to go in which was great and what's happened has been amazing."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.