The Jump returned to Channel 4 last night with the fourteen famous faces battling it out in Parallel Slalom races before the losing seven took on The Jump live to secure their place in round two of the competition.
ouis Smith took home the first Mini Cowbell Trophy of the series as the fasted competitor down the course at a speedy 16.42 seconds.
Spencer Matthews, Kadeena Cox, Amy Willerton, Mark Dolan, Jason Robinson, Josie Gibson and Emma Parker-Bowles all faced The Jump after losing their head to head Parallel Slalom races. Supported by the cheering crowd live from Jump Mountain in Austria, the seven faced the first Jump of the series.
Spencer Matthews was first to take on The Jump setting the bar at 14.55m for the other six to beat. Kadeena Cox went next jumping 13.8m, meaning Spencer was safe and through to the next round of the competition.
At the top of The Jump Josie Gibson looked nervous. Even though her jump training was going well at the training centre, and being cleared to jump from that height, she had never jumped off the purpose built ski jump on Jump Mountain. It was too much for the Welsh reality star who couldn’t take it on tonight meaning all Emma Parker-Bowles had to do was land her jump to stay in competition. Despite being struck by nerves Emma Parker-Bowles determined to keep her place in the competition. With a jump of 11m she knocked Josie Gibson out of the competition.
The Jump returns to Channel4 next Sunday at 7:30pm, with the remaining competitors taking on Snow Cross and The Jump eliminator to keep their place in the competition.
Episode one of The Jump peaked with 2.8million viewers, with an average audience over the 90 minute slot of 2.4million which is up on last year’s launch.
