Kamila Valieva recreates Jenna Ortega’s viral Wednesday Addams dance on ice

ByBen Snowball

Updated 04/01/2023 at 17:56 GMT

Jenna Ortega’s epic dance scene as Wednesday Addams has proved a smash hit, with her quirky moves and striking all-black gown attracting millions of views on social media and beyond. Now it has inspired a recreation in the world of ice skating, with Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva performing the viral dance during a routine at the recent Russian Figure Skating Championships.

Kamila Valieva is back in the headlines after recreating Jenna Ortega’s viral dance from the hit series ‘Wednesday’ on ice.

Valieva is still embroiled in a doping storm after she tested positive for a banned heart drug, but she put the furore to one side as she sported Wednesday Addams’ all-black attire and pigtails at the Russian Figure Skating Championships.

After starting her routine outside of the arena, pretending to sit up in a coffin as the Netflix show’s theme tune rung out, she climbed over the barrier and onto the ice. The 16-year-old evoked her character with a succession of stroppy moves before she performed the iconic dance to The Cramps’ anthem ‘Goo Goo Muck’, then finishing off her routine to Lady Gaga's 'Bloody Mary'.

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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is still seeking to ban Valieva for four years – and erasing her results dating back to her positive test in December 2021 – which would rule her out of the next Winter Olympics in 2026. The case has now been referred to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Valieva’s positive test for trimetazidine came to light after she helped the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) win team gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in February, despite the sample being taken some six weeks earlier.

Currently, the ROC are still listed as the winners of the event but no medal ceremony took place in China.

Valieva failed to win an individual medal in Beijing after unravelling in her free skate routine in the women’s singles, despite arriving as the leader after silencing the outside noise with an impressive short programme.

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