Dancing On Ice champion Joe Swash admits he LOST the trophy at Sunday night’s raucous wrap party

Joe Swash lost the Dancing On Ice trophy at the series wrap party after being crowned the winner of the skating show on Sunday night.

The 38-year-old actor and his professional partner Alex Murphy were awarded the coveted prize thanks to the voting public, after beating fellow finalists Libby Clegg and runner-up Perri Kiely.

The pair were presented with the trophy by hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby but Joe misplaced and couldn’t find it anywhere as the party wrapped up at 5AM.

During an appearance on Monday’s This Morning Joe confessed: ‘We have been told someone has found it under the table. I don’t what happened to it.

‘I don’t think they will let us have it afterwards.’

He also spoke honestly about the toll taking part in the show has taken on his girlfriend – and mother of their baby son – Stacey Solomon.

‘It’s really been tough for Stace, you always forget about the other person at home. 

‘Stace is at home with the kids and she’s working as well but we’re in the same business.’

He echoed this during a later appearance on Loose Women on Monday.

‘Stace had the kids, my mum… she wasn’t seeing me. We won and it was amazing but we can go back to being normal now.’

Joe also revealed he couldn’t have got to the final without the support of fellow contestants Libby – who is a Scottish Paralympic sprinter who is registered blind – and Perri – a pro dancer – because they supported him at every stage of the competition.

The former EastEnders star said: ‘It’s been the craziest journey, it’s been so long, I think we’ve been doing it since September. I can remember spending days and days just trying to push off straight, it’s all a bit surreal to be honest.

‘I couldn’t have got that far without them two. Whenever I had a judges challenge or something I thought I couldn’t do I just remembered Libby was there and Libby can’t see, and she never moaned about anything. She was my inspiration.

‘Perri is an old head on young shoulders, he’s so mature and he’s got such a great soul. Even though I was old enough to be his dad when i would go through my problems he’d say, “Joe this is what I think you should do.”

‘They really helped me I was just glad to be in the final with them.’

He added: ‘It’s the last thing I thought was going to happen when I started this journey. I thought if I can get to Christmas without breaking anything, I’ll be a happy man.’

Of his pro partner, he said: ‘[Winning] is down to Alex, I couldn’t have done any of this stuff without her. We were training seven days a week, eight hours a day.

‘I look like a 12-year-old when I take off my clothes now, I need to put some weight on!’