Joe Swash: I'm looking forward to being normal again

Joe Swash is looking forward to "being normal again".

The 38-year-old actor is still basking in the glory of his \'Dancing on Ice\' success on Sunday night (08.03.20) - but Joe is also excited to return to normality again.

Joe - who has a nine-month-old son called Rex with his partner Stacey Solomon - told \'Loose Women\': "We started this in September. It\'s such a long journey, and people always forget about Stacey and the people at home [since] I started doing it.

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"But as much as I started working, Stacey had the kids, my mum wasn\'t seeing me, so I think it was a relief for everyone that, \'Ah, he\'s won it, this is amazing, but we can go back to being normal again.\'"

Joe was training "seven days a week, eight hours a day" during his stint on \'Dancing on Ice\'.

But the actor - who previously played Mickey Miller in \'EastEnders\' - thinks the key to his skating success was the input of his professional partner Alex Murphy.

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He said: "It\'s down to Alex, really. I couldn\'t have done any of the stuff that I\'d done without Al."

Stacey, 30, supported her partner during the \'Dancing on Ice\' final - but she also admitted she was looking forward to welcoming him home.

The popular TV star - who finished in third place on the sixth series of \'The X Factor\' in 2009 - said: "All of us can\'t believe it. We are so proud of him he has worked so so hard. We just want him back."