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Erin Boag

Erin Boag (born in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
, 1975) is a professional ballroom dance

Ballroom dance

Ballroom dance refers to a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both social dance and ballroom dance#competitive dancing around the globe. Its performance dance and entertainment aspects are also widely enjoyed on Theater, in film, and on television....
r. She has danced from the age of three, taught by her father, Robert 'Robbie' Boag. When she was a teenager, she moved to Australia, and she moved to London eighteen months later, when she was in her early twenties.

Boag's regular professional partner is Anton du Beke

Anton du Beke

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Erin Boag (born in New Zealand

New Zealand

Ballroom dance

Professional career

Erin Boag's regular professional partner is Anton du Beke

Anton du Beke

Anton du Beke is a professional ballroom dancer and television presenter. His dance partner since 1997 has been Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003....
. She and du Beke turned professional in 2002, competing mainly in the UK. Their best result on the competition circuit was in November 2003 when they won the IDTA Classic in England. They now both appear on Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom dance and Latin dancing dances....
.

Strictly Come Dancing

She has competed in all six series of the BBC's television series Strictly Come Dancing
Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom dance and Latin dancing dances....
with the following results:

Fourth in Series 1 with rugby league player Martin Offiah
Martin Offiah

Martin "Chariots" Offiah Order of the British Empire is an English former rugby league and, briefly, rugby union footballer of the 1980s, 90s and 2000s....
.
Third in Series 2 with comedian Julian Clary
Julian Clary

Julian Clary is an England comedian and novelist, known for his deliberately stereotypical camp style, with a heavy reliance on innuendo and double entendre....
.
Runner-up in 2005 with hurdling champion and record holder Colin Jackson
Colin Jackson

Colin Ray Jackson Order of the British Empire is a Welsh people former Sprint and hurdling Athletics of Jamaican, Jamaican Maroons, Taino, and Scottish people ancestry, who now works as a Sportscaster for athletics and television presenter predominantly for the BBC....
.
Eliminated in week 7 of the 2006 competition, dancing with football player Peter Schmeichel
Peter Schmeichel

Peter Boleslaw Schmeichel Order of the British Empire is a retired Danish people professional association football who played as a goalkeeper , and was voted the "World's Best Goalkeeper" in 1992 and 1993....
.
Knocked out of the 2007 competition in week 3 with her partner, snooker player Willie Thorne
Willie Thorne

William Joseph Thorne , best known as Willie Thorne, is a former English people professional snooker player and now a Sportscaster....
.
Eliminated in Week 12 of the 2008 competition, with Austin Healey
Austin Healey

Austin Sean Healey is an English rugby union player, who played as a utility back for Leicester Tigers, and has represented England national rugby union team and the British and Irish Lions....
. They placed 4th in the competition.

For the Christmas Special 2006, she was joined again by Colin Jackson. After the combined scores of the judges' marks and the votes of the studio audience, Colin and Erin won the competition, after getting the full 40 marks from the judges.

2008 results

Green numbers show Austin and Erin were at the top of the leaderboard that week.

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score					Result
Week #	Dance/Song						Result
Horwood	Phillips	Goodman	Tonioli	Total
1	Waltz Waltz The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position.... / The Rainbow Connection The Rainbow Connection "The Rainbow Connection" is a popular song written by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher and originally performed by Kermit the Frog in The Muppet Movie in 1979....	7	8	9	8	32	Safe
2	Merengue Group Dance Merengue (dance) Merengue is a style ofLatin American music and dance with a two-step beat. Partners hold each other in a closed position. The leader holds the follower's waist with his right hand, while holding her right hand with his left hand at the follower's eye level.... /"She Bangs She Bangs "She Bangs" is a song originally performed by Ricky Martin, from his 2000 album Sound Loaded. An up-tempo, salsa music-influenced song with double entendres about the singer's infatuation with a woman, Martin's recording earned him continued crossover success around the world.... "					Not Judged
3	Jive Jive (dance) In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance.... / You Can't Stop the Beat	8	8	9	9	34	Safe
4	Rueda Group Dance Rueda de Casino Rueda de Casino is a particular type of Round dance of Salsa . It was developed in Havana, Cuba in the late 1950s and early 1960s by the famous group Guaracheros de Regla and one of its main choreographers and creators was Jorge Alfaro from San Miguel del Padr?n, a soloist of a comparsa.... /"Birdland"					Not Judged
5	Samba / Move Your Feet Move Your Feet "Move Your Feet" is a song by Denmark Pop music duo Junior Senior. The song, recorded in 2003, was Junior Senior's biggest hit , reaching #3 in the UK and #20 in Australia, and played at dance clubs the world over....	8	8	8	8	32	Safe
6	Viennese Waltz Viennese Waltz Viennese Waltz is the genre of a ballroom dance. At least three different meanings are recognized. In the historically first sense, the name may refer to several versions of the waltz, including the earliest waltzes done in ballroom dancing, danced to the music of Viennese Waltz.... / Send in the Clowns Send in the Clowns "Send in the Clowns" is a song by Stephen Sondheim, from the 1973 Musical theater A Little Night Music. It is a ballad from Act II in which the character Desir?e reflects on the ironies and disappointments of her life....	8	8	9	9	34	Safe
7	Quickstep Quickstep Quickstep is an Ballroom glossary#International Style ballroom dance that follows a 2/4 or 4/4 time beat, similar to a fast Foxtrot . An example of a song suitable for the classic quickstep would be Louis Prima's "Sing, Sing, Sing".... / S'Wonderful	8	9	10	9	36	Safe
8	Rumba Rumba (dance) Rumba is a dance term with two quite different meanings.First, it means Cuban event of African style, organically related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music.... / When You Tell Me That You Love Me When You Tell Me That You Love Me "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" is a 1991 song released as a single by United States soul music singer Diana Ross. The song was subsequently covered by various artists....	5	8	8	8	29	Safe
9	Tango Tango (ballroom) Ballroom tango is a ballroom dance that branched away from its original Argentine roots by allowing European, American, Hollywood, and competitive influences into the style and execution of the dance.... / Libertango Libertango *Libertango* is a composition by Tango music composer ?stor Piazzolla, published in 1974.The title is a portmanteau merging "Libertad" and "Tango", symbolizing Piazzolla's break from Classical Tango to Tango Nuevo....	9	9	10	10	38	Safe
10	Cha Cha Cha-cha-cha (dance) Cha-cha-cha is the name of a Latin American dance of Cuban origin. The name may also be spelled chachach?. It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorr?n in 1953.... / It's Raining Men It's Raining Men "It's Raining Men" is a song written by Paul Jabara and Paul Shaffer in 1979, and originally recorded by The Weather Girls in 1982. The song had been offered to a who's-who of female singing legends including Donna Summer, Grace Jones, Diana Ross, Cher, Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, Teena Marie, Gloria Gaynor, and even Barbra Streisand before...	8	9	9	9	35	Safe
11	Foxtrot / L-O-V-E L-O-V-E "L-O-V-E" is a jazz song written by Bert Kaempfert and Milt Gabler for American singer-pianist Nat King Cole's 1965 album L-O-V-E .... Paso Doble Paso Doble Paso Doble or pasodoble is a lively style of dance to the Metre march -like pasodoble music. It actually originated in southern France , but is modeled after the sound, drama, and movement of the Spain bullfighting.... / España Cañí España Cañí *Espa?a Ca??* is a famous instrumental Spanish music piece of pasodoble music by Pascual Marquina Narro . The song was written around 1925. It is also known as the *Spanish Gypsy Dance*....	8 10	9 10	9 8	10 10	36 38	Safe
12	American Smooth / The Best Is Yet to Come The Best Is Yet to Come *The Best is Yet to Come* is a 1982 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.... Salsa Salsa (dance) Salsa is a dance for Salsa music created by Spanish language-speaking people from the Caribbean and their immigrant communities in the US. Salsa dancing mixes African and European dance influences through the music and dance fusions that are the roots of Salsa: Cuban SonGuaguanc?, Spanish Rumba, Boogaloo, Pachanga, Guaracha, Plena, Bomba, .... / Johnny's Mambo	8 8	8 9	9 10	9 9	34 36	Eliminated

Personal life

After being introduced by Camilla Dallerup

Camilla Dallerup

Camilla Dallerup is a British based Danish ballroom dancing....
, in September 2008 Boag became engaged to business consultant Peter O'Dowd. They are planning to get married in Italy, in June 2009.

Erin Boag

Professional career

Strictly Come Dancing

2008 results

Personal life

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