Tiffany Packard Yu, known as Tippy Packard, (), is a figure skater who represented

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and choreographer. She first gained attention in 2013, when the 18-year-old won her third Hong Kong Championship and began her career in show biz with ''Happiness is…Snoopy''. Packard continued her professional skating career in mid 2013 as a female principle in Royal Caribbean Ice Shows and CNE-Canadian National Exhibition. She toured over 40 countries as a show skater after retiring from the competitive sport. In 2018, she joined a part of ice skating history by becoming the female principle for the 75th Anniversary of

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. She was announced as a professional skater in Dancing on Ice Series 14. She is a three time Hong Kong National Champion and Worlds Competitor. In 2022, Packard became a professional skater on the ITV skating series ''

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''. In her first season, she was paired with Olympic BMX racer

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. In Season 14, Packard and her partner Kye had an extremely successful first year: they were eliminated in the semi-final stage. Tippy was partnered with former ski jumper Eddie (the Eagle) Edwards in Series 16: however a knee injury in training forced her to withdraw from the programme.

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