Jeff Brazier: 'I'm not dating Kerry Katona'

Jeff Brazier: 'I'm not dating Kerry Katona'
Jeff Brazier: 'I'm not dating Kerry Katona' (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Jeff Brazier has denied suggestions he is dating fellow Dancing On Ice contestant Kerry Katona. The TV presenter rubbished reports that the pair had grown close while training for the current series of the ITV1 show. Asked by a fan whether there was any truth to the claims, he wrote on Twitter: "What do you think! Don't get me wrong gang she's a lovely girl on her way back to her best but I'm as romantically entwined to her as I was with [former Dancing On Ice contestant] Angela Rippon!" He added: "To be with someone in the public eye again would complicate the kids privacy ... and it's not something I'm ever going to mess with". The 31-year-old father-of-two, who partners Canadian Isabelle Gauthier on the ITV1 show, added later: "Just to keep balance KK is a wonderful charismatic girl who I totally support in making a fresh start. Doubt the claim even came from her!" Kerry later weighed in: "Just so you know it didn't come from me or my manager either" to which Jeff responded: "I know love, I'll be linked to [judge] Jason Gardiner next week!"

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.