James Jordan (dancer)

James Jordan
Born	(1978-04-13) 13 April 1978 Gillingham, Kent, England
Residence	Maidstone, Kent, England
Occupation	Dancer, choreographer
Years active	2006–present
Television	Strictly Come Dancing (2006–13) Celebrity Big Brother 14 (2014)
Spouse(s)	Ola Jordan (m. 2003)

James Jordan (born 13 April 1978)^[1] is a British ballroom dancer. His dance partner is wife Aleksandra "Ola" Jordan, with whom he turned professional in 2000. In August 2014, He participated in the fourteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother. He finished in third place on the final night

Dancing career

Jordan was born in Gillingham, Kent,^[2] and attended St John Fisher Catholic School in Chatham.^[2] He started dancing at the age of 13. He now dances with his wife, Aleksandra "Ola" Jordan (née Grabowska). Aleksandra previously danced with Przemek Lowicki in Poland; Jordan previously danced with Agnieszka Melnicka, but they split in 1999. He also danced with Kate Pothecary (1996) and Elisabeth Haraldsdottir (October 1997 – December 1997).^[3]

Jordan and Grabowska's first recorded dance as a partnership was in the Dutch Open in 2000,^[4] though they did not turn professional until 2003.^[5] The couple retired for a while, in favour of teaching Latin American dancing in Hong Kong, though they returned to competition later.^[6]

In May 2006, the couple came second in the Blackpool Professional Rising Stars Latin event,^[7] and in November they came third in the British Championship, Professional Latin.^[8] In 2010, he was a choreographer in So You Think You Can Dance. As of 2014 they live near Maidstone in Kent,^[2] close to his family who live on St Mary's Island, Medway.^[2]

Strictly Come Dancing

Series 4 (2006)

In his first series as a Strictly professional, Jordan partnered Casualty actress Georgina Bouzova.

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' scores					Result
Craig Revel Horwood	Len Goodman	Arlene Phillips	Bruno Tonioli	Total
1	Group Mambo	Unscored group performance
2	Rumba / Let's Get It On	3	5	2	4	14	Bottom two
3	Jive / Burning Love	3	6	3	6	18	Bottom two
4	Foxtrot / Have You Met Miss Jones?	5	8	6	7	26	Eliminated

• Series average for Georgina and James: 19.3

Series 5 (2007)

In the fifth series of Strictly, Jordan was partnered by BBC Sport presenter Gabby Logan, whose rugby union player husband Kenny Logan was partnered by Ola Jordan. This was the first time two married couples had competed against each other. Gabby and James were voted out in Week 4 of the competition,^[9] as he did in the previous series. Kenny and Ola were voted out in Week 9 (ending up in 5th place).

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' scores					Result
Craig Revel Horwood	Len Goodman	Arlene Phillips	Bruno Tonioli	Total
1	Group Swing	Unscored group performance
2	Quickstep / Things	8	7	7	7	29	Safe
3	Jive / Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)	8	8	7	8	31	Safe
4	Samba / Eso Beso (That Kiss)	7	8	7	8	30	Eliminated

• Series average for Gabby and James: 30.0

Series 6 (2008)

In the sixth series of Strictly Come Dancing, James Jordan danced with actress Cherie Lunghi, while Ola's partner was the GMTV presenter Andrew Castle. After having exited so early in his previous series, James was concerned he was under a "four-week curse", which was then broken. He and Lunghi were voted off in Week 9, in a dance-off against Lisa Snowdon and her partner Brendan Cole. In January–February 2009, Jordan also danced with Lunghi on the Strictly Come Dancing Tour 2009.

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' scores					Result
Craig Revel Horwood	Len Goodman	Arlene Phillips	Bruno Tonioli	Total
1	Group Cha-cha-cha	Unscored group performance
2	Foxtrot / Sweet About Me	8	9	8	8	33	Safe
3	Group Swing	Unscored group performance
4	Rumba / Songbird	9	8	9	9	35	Safe
5	American Smooth / Layla	7	9	9	9	34	Safe
6	Paso Doble / Amparito Roca	7	8	8	8	31	Safe
7	Salsa / Oye Mi Canto (Hear My Voice)	6	7	6	7	26	Safe
8	Waltz / I Wonder Why	9	9	9	9	36	Safe
9	Cha Cha Cha / Play That Funky Music	7	8	8	9	32	Eliminated

• Series average for Cherie and James: 32.4

Series 7 (2009)

In series 7, he was partnered by actress Zöe Lucker but they were eliminated in week 7. Jordan stated that "winning that trophy is my dream but I wouldn't give up this wonderful lady for that ball." Eventually, wife Ola won the competition that year, partnered with presenter Chris Hollins.

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score
		Craig Revel Horwood	Len Goodman	Alesha Dixon	Bruno Tonioli	Total	Result
1	Group Mambo	Unscored group performance
2	Waltz / Some Day My Prince Will Come Rumba / Out of Reach	7 8	8 7	7 8	8 8	30 31	Safe
3	Paso Doble / You Got the Love	7	8	8	8	31	Safe
4	Foxtrot / This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)	8	9	8	8	33	Safe
5	Jive / Tainted Love	7	8	8	7	30	Bottom two
6	American Smooth / My Girl	8	8	9	8	33	Safe
7	Samba / Boogie Nights	7	8	9	8	32	Eliminated

• Series average for Zoe and James: 31.4

Series 8 (2010)

In the 2010 series, Jordan reached the final of the competition for the first time partnered with comedienne and psychologist Pamela Stephenson. They topped the leaderboard a record six times that series. The pair made it to the Strictly final, but eventually finished in third place behind actress Kara Tointon and presenter and former gymnast Matt Baker.

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' scores					Result
Craig Revel Horwood	Len Goodman	Alesha Dixon	Bruno Tonioli	Total
1	Waltz / If I Ain't Got You	7	8	8	8	31	Safe
2	Salsa / Dr. Beat	8	8	8	8	32	Safe
3	Rumba / Make You Feel My Love	9	8	9	9	35	Safe
4	Tango / Love is the Drug	8	8	9	9	34	Safe
5	Jive / Devil Gate Drive	6	7	7	7	27	Safe
6	Foxtrot / Let There Be Love	8	9	8	8	33	Safe
7	Cha Cha Cha / Money (That's What I Want)	8	8	8	8	32	Safe
8	American Smooth / Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps	8	9	10	10	37	Safe
9	Charleston / Let's Misbehave	9	9	10	10	38	Safe
10	Viennese Waltz / Unchained Melody	10	10	10	10	40	Safe
11	Paso Doble / Bad Romance Swing-a-thon / In the Mood Quickstep / Steppin' Out with My Baby	8 N/A 10	9 N/A 10	9 N/A 10	9 N/A 10	35 3rd/3 points 40	Third Place

• Series average for Pamela and James: 35.1

Series 9 (2011)

The One Show presenter Alex Jones was James Jordan's partner in the 2011 series. Jordan and judge Craig Revel Horwood were involved in a minor feud,^[10] as a 6 for Jones' Charleston in week 9 caused the couple to flutter down the leaderboard, as opposed to their top position the week before. The tough score outraged the professional dancer as he reportedly stormed out of the studio fuming, feeling the score to be undeserved and personal against James. Horwood further defended his judgement by claiming himself to be "tougher" as the competition goes. This feud was further reiterated when Horwood dropped James and Ola Jordan from the Strictly tour later in the year. Alex Jones reached the semi-final, eventually coming fifth in the competition.

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score
		Craig Revel Horwood	Len Goodman	Alesha Dixon	Bruno Tonioli	Total	Result
1	Cha Cha Cha / When Love Takes Over	4	6	6	6	22	Safe
2	Foxtrot / Have You Met Miss Jones?	6	8	7	8	29	Safe
3	Viennese Waltz / Memory	8	8	8	8	32	Safe
4	Rumba / Run	4	7	7	7	25	Safe
5	Paso Doble / Bring Me to Life	7	8	8	8	31	Safe
6	Quickstep / It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)	7	8	8	8	31	Safe
7	Jive / River Deep, Mountain High	7	8	8	8	31	Safe
8	Tango / Relax	8	9	9	9	35	Safe
9	Charleston / Me and My Baby Swingathon	6 N/A	7 N/A	8 N/A	8 N/A	29 3rd/5 points	Safe
10	American Smooth / Pretty Woman	8	8	9	9	34	Safe
11	Waltz / (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman Salsa / 1234	7 7	9 8	9 8	9 8	34 31	Eliminated

^ Jennifer Grey, the winner of the eleventh series of Dancing with the Stars, the American version of 'Strictly', was a guest judge, replacing Len Goodman while he had a week off.^[11]

• Series average for Alex and James: 30.3

Series 10 (2012)

For its tenth series in September 2012, Jordan was partners with television presenter, actress and singer Denise van Outen. Surpassing his feat with Pamela Stephenson, he secured the top position of the leaderboard 7 times with Denise, including 4 consecutive top positions. For the second time ever, he reached the final but placed his best in the competition overall, with Outen and Jordan finishing as runners-up with singer Kimberley Walsh and her partner Pasha Kovalev, behind the winners gymnast Louis Smith and professional partner Flavia Cacace.^[12]

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' scores					Result
Craig Revel Horwood	Darcey Bussell	Len Goodman	Bruno Tonioli	Total
1	Waltz / With You I'm Born Again	6	6	6	7	25	Safe
2	Jive / Tutti Frutti	8	8	8	8	32	Safe
3	Foxtrot / You've Got a Friend in Me	8	8	8	8	32	Safe
4	Cha Cha Cha / Super Freak	7	7	7	7	28	Safe
5	Vienesse Waltz / At Last	9	8	9	9	35	Safe
6	Paso Doble / Seven Nation Army	9	9	9	9	36	Safe
7	Charleston / Walk Like an Egyptian	9	10	10	10	39	Safe
8	American Smooth / Imagine	9	9	9	10	37	Safe
9	Salsa / Rhythm of the Night	8	8	8	8	32	Safe
10	Dance Fusion (Jive/Quickstep) / Reet Petite	8	9	9	9	35	Bottom two
11	Tango / Roxanne Rumba / The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face	9 9	10 9	10 10	10 10	39 38	Bottom two
12	Jive / Tutti Frutti Showdance / What a Feeling Charleston / Walk Like an Egyptian	9 10 10	10 10 10	10 10 10	10 10 10	39 40 40	Runner-up

• Series average for Denise and James: 35.1

Series 11 (2013)

On 7 September 2013, Strictly Come Dancing Jordan was partnered with Vanessa Feltz. The pair were eliminated in the third round.

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' scores					Result
Craig Revel Horwood	Darcey Bussell	Len Goodman	Bruno Tonioli	Total
1	Cha-Cha-Cha / That Don't Impress Me Much	3	5	6	5	19	No Elimination
2	Waltz / Run to You	5	6	6	6	23	Safe
3	Tango / Lay All Your Love on Me	3	5	6	6	20	Eliminated

Other television appearances

James together with Ola took part in a celebrity version of television programme Total Wipeout which was broadcast on 26 December 2009. In August 2014, James took part in fourteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother. He entered the house on Day 1 and finished third on the final night. Since 2014, Jordan has appeared regularly on The Wright Stuff.

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004–13	Strictly Come Dancing	Himself/Dancer	Professional Dancer
2009	Total Wipeout	Himself/Contestant	Celebrity Special
2014	Celebrity Big Brother	Himself/Housemate	Series 14

References

External links

• "James and Ola Jordan". Official website of the partnership. 
• "James Jordan". Internet Movie Database page. 

Preceded by Chelsee Healey & Pasha Kovalev	Strictly Come Dancing runner up (with partner Denise van Outen) Series 10 (2012)	Succeeded by Susanna Reid & Kevin Clifton Natalie Gumede & Artem Chigvintsev

So You Think You Can Dance (UK) Series 1 2 Presenters Cat Deeley Judges Main Nigel Lythgoe Arlene Phillips Louise Redknapp Sisco Gomez Guest Priscilla Samuels Alexandra Burke John Barrowman Winners Charlie Bruce Matt Flint Runners-up Tommy Franzén Luke Jackson 3rd places Lizzie Gough Katie Love Related articles BBC One Simon Fuller So You Think You Can Dance (United States)

Strictly Come Dancing Contestants Series 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Christmas Specials Hosts Current Tess Daly Claudia Winkleman Guest Natasha Kaplinsky Ronnie Corbett Zoë Ball Sir Bruce Forsyth Judges Current Len Goodman Bruno Tonioli Craig Revel Horwood Darcey Bussell Former Arlene Phillips Alesha Dixon Guest Jennifer Grey Donny Osmond Celebrity winners Natasha Kaplinsky Jill Halfpenny Darren Gough Mark Ramprakash Alesha Dixon Tom Chambers Chris Hollins Kara Tointon Harry Judd Louis Smith Abbey Clancy Caroline Flack Professional winners Brendan Cole Darren Bennett Lilia Kopylova Karen Hardy Matthew Cutler Camilla Dallerup Ola Jordan Artem Chigvintsev Aliona Vilani Flavia Cacace Aljaž Skorjanec Pasha Kovalev Other professionals Erin Boag Joanne Clifton Kevin Clifton Andrew Cuerden Anton du Beke Brian Fortuna Anya Garnis Hanna Haarala Izabela Hannah Karen Hauer Hayley Holt Kylie Jones James Jordan Hanna Karttunen Paul Killick Natalie Lowe Iveta Lukosiute Tristan MacManus Janette Manrara Jared Murillo Hazel Newberry Kristina Rihanoff Vincent Simone Katya Virshilas Ian Waite Trent Whiddon Robin Windsor Related It Takes Two Dancing with the Stars (U.S. version) Dancing with the Stars (International versions)

Celebrity Big Brother Housemates Series 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Series 14 Gary Busey Audley Harrison James Jordan George Gilbey Dee Kelly Edele Lynch Lauren Goodger Ricci Guarnaccio Kellie Maloney Stephanie Pratt Angelique "Frenchy" Morgan Claire King Leslie Jordan David McIntosh