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 specialize 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 fourth series, he danced with actress and impressionist Jan Ravens but was eliminated in week 5 of the competition.
There is a lot of comment made on the Strictly Come Dancing series about his resemblance to Bruce Forsyth.
[edit] External links
- Anton du Beke. Official website.
- Anton du Beke and Erin Boag. Official website of the partnership.
- Profile of Anton. Strictly Come Dancing. BBC.