Anton du Beke

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Anton du Beke is a professional ballroom dancer. His dance partner is Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003. His reasonably late entry to dancing began at 14, and at 17 decided to specialise in ballroom.

He has appeared in all four series of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing. In the first series, he danced with singer Lesley Garrett and finished in 3rd place. For the second series, he partnered presenter Esther Rantzen; they were eliminated in the third week. He danced with actress Patsy Palmer for the third series and finished in 5th place. In the current fourth series, he is dancing with actress and impressionist Jan Ravens but has been elimated in week 5 of the competition.