Brendan Cole

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Brendan Cole (born in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin American dancing. He has appeared on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer. He has also judged two seasons of New Zealand's own Dancing with the Stars.

He has danced since he was six, and came to the United Kingdom when he was nineteen. Before he danced professionally he worked as a builder.

He danced with Camilla Dallerup, a fellow Strictly Come Dancing contestant from 1996, as amateurs, and from 2002-2004 as professionals. They competed for New Zealand; Camilla Dallerup is Danish-born. In 2003 Dallerup and Cole were placed 3rd for Latin American at the UK Closed Championships. Ms Dallerup now dances with Ian Waite, who also appears on 'Strictly, and Brendan has no current dance partner.

Prior to his dancing with Natasha Kaplinsky, in the first series of Strictly Come Dancing, Camilla and Brendan were engaged, but she broke it off, claiming, "I'd been with Brendan almost everyday, all the time, for more than eight years and then he changed overnight. I think he was starstruck ...everything changed because of her [Natasha Kaplinsky]."

In Summer 2006, he joined ITV's Love Island and became the runner-up when the show ended on August 28, 2006.

Brendan has recently split from glamour model Abi Titmuss.

In January 2007, Brendan is joining the BBC's duet show Just the Two of Us.

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Preceded by
None		 Strictly Come Dancing Champion
(with partner Natasha Kaplinsky)
Series 1 (Spring 2004)		 Succeeded by
Jill Halfpenny and Darren Bennett
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