
When you talk Nick Deluca, you inevitably talk about his first love, ice skating. It's 7AM on a Monday morning and I am meeting him Macquarie Ice Rink where he trains religiously with world famous Ms Madeline of France. It's not his frame, his face or his routines that draw attention. It is his unwavering support to the IGSFU or International Gay Figure Skating Union ( www.igsfu.org ). He has become a beacon of light in this ever darkening world of ours and the ice may be cool but it melts below his fire hot routines commonly known as and referred to by Nick as "Red Hot Fire Ice Love".
As I seat myself next to Nick in preparation of the interview, I examine the man and try to see what makes the world love Nick and Nick love ice skating. Is it his seemingly effortless dishevelled locks, unquestionable fanboy attitude towards Ronan Keating or almost crossgender apparell that draw the crowds? It certainly isn't his looks and this conundrum still has me baffled.
I just wished that he'd opened up more about his ice skating and less about his other pursuits. I had to cut the interview short cos I just couldn't take it anymore. Anyway, read on and you'll see what I am talking about. Thanks for your time Nick.
BallsToFeet: Thanks for meeting with us mate. We really appreciate it.
Nick: No worries Balls. I love your work. Sometimes when I curl up on the couch after a hard day of choreography with my toy poodle 'Samson', we flick over the site and have a little chuckle.
BTF: Great to know champ. Thanks.
Nick: Cool. I suppose you wanna hear me sing right? "The smile on your face lets me know that you love me...."
BTF: No, no. It's quite alright. I wasn't expecting that at all.
Nick: You sure? I love to sing. I've been listening to some George Michael to plan my latest routines to. "If you're looking for fastlove.... Fastlove in your eyes..."
BTF: Ummm... Thanks for that. You sound great.
Nick: Well, I think I can just harmonise really well. Sometimes when the ice machine is on the rink I can feel the rhythm and so I start to move and sing. "I'm blue daba dee daba doo daba deee..... I have house with a blue window..."
BTF: Let's talk signature moves. You don't just stop at the toe loop, Lutz or Axel but you go for the more audacious moves don't you?
Nick: Yeah. I like the one-foot salchow, toeless lutz or the mazurka. I like the different ones that make me wanna sing with excitement. It's like the embodiment of a Vanessa Amorosi single. "Floating in a weir and you think you'll never sink, so you, forget all your fears, your fears..."
BTF: Isn't that Killing Heidi?
Nick: Umm, no. I think I know my Vanessa Amorisi. I've only got like all her albums and singles like "Sorrento Moon". "I remember, how it all came true, It was oh so tender, And I was lost with you, By the sweet sorrento moon...."
BTF: Dude, that's Tina Arena.
Nick: Whatever. "What you want..... Baby I got..... What you need..... You know I got..... All I'm asking for...... is a little respect when you come home......"
BTF: I'm lost. I thought this was about ice skating and all you're doing is singing.
Nick: I love singing and singing loves me back. I would've made it to Sydney if that fat fuck Kyle Sandilands hadn't said no. He said my act was too heavy on the dancing but Marcia knew what I was on about. She said "Mmmmhmmmm, you got it girlfriend". As the token black member on the panel like Randy Jackson is on American Idol, I took it as a massive compliment. I was singing some Mariah that day... "Dreamlover come rescue me....."
BTF: Fuck this. I thought I'd get an interesting article and all you're doing is singing.
Nick: "Baby come back, you can blame it all on me, I was wrong, and I just can't live without you"
BTF: I'm out....
Nick: "I said I love you but I lied.... Cos this more than love I feel inside...."
BTF: You're singing Michael Bolton at me? Really?
Nick: "It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! - It's Raining Men! Amen! I'm gonna go out to run and let myself get Absolutely soaking wet! It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! It's Raining Men! Every Specimen! Tall, blonde, dark and leanRough and tough and strong and mean..."
BTF: Fuck this.....
Nick: Dude, where you goin? Don't you wanna talk IGSFU and the conservative right's plan to crush all same sex relationships as they believe that those people could rise to create an economic super class, undermining the very basis of the conservative right via persuading changes in policy based on the dollar and not on the corrupted moral groundings which they so valiantly try to hold on to????? Oh well....... "Accidentally Kelly Street where friends and strangers sometimes meet..."