Hayley Holt is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 snowboarder and ballroom dance

Ballroom dance

Ballroom dance refers to a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world. Because of its performance and entertainment aspects, ballroom dance is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television....

r notable for her appearances on several reality television

Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 series. Holt is also a past girlfriend of All Black current captain, Richie McCaw

Richie McCaw

Richard Hugh "Richie" McCaw is a New Zealand rugby union player, and is the current test captain. He plays in the openside flanker position for the New Zealand, Crusaders and Canterbury rugby teams...

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Dancing career

Holt started ballroom and Latin dancing at the age of seven, and was placed 19th in the Blackpool

Blackpool

Blackpool is a borough, seaside town, and unitary authority area of Lancashire, in North West England. It is situated along England's west coast by the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries, northwest of Preston, north of Liverpool, and northwest of Manchester...

 Rising Star Professional Ballroom Competition and was sixth in the US Open Rising Star Professional Ballroom Competition. She has also trained in jazz dance

Jazz dance

Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

 and studied for many years with Candy Lane

Candy Lane

Candy Lane is an award-winning New Zealand Choregrapher, Dancer, Television presenter, Fashion Designer wife and mother of two. She is well known to New Zealand audiences for being the Co-host on Dancing with the Stars ., TVNZ, Retrieved October 26, 2010-Dancing With The Stars:Since the show's...

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Holt's professional dance partner is David Yeates.

Holt joined the second season of the New Zealand TV show Dancing with the Stars

Dancing with the Stars (New Zealand TV series)

Dancing with the Stars is a New Zealand television series based on the British series Strictly Come Dancing. The show introduces eight local celebrities paired with professional ballroom danceers who each week compete against each other in a competition to impress a panel of judges and the viewing...

 in 2006, becoming the professional partner of swimmer Danyon Loader

Danyon Loader

Danyon Loader ONZM is an Olympic champion, former World Record holding swimmer from New Zealand, based in Dunedin...

 - the couple were eliminated in the semi-final. During the third season, Holt was the partner of basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 player Brendon Pongia

Brendon Pongia

Brendon Pongia is a New Zealand television presenter and basketball player, formerly for the national team, the Tall Blacks. He co-hosted Good Morning alongside Sarah Bradley from 2006-2011. He has also appeared on the Māori Television show Iwi All-Stars and Code.Pongia grew up in Greymouth and...

 and was again eliminated in the semi-final. In the fourth season, Holt was partnered with DJ Peter Urlich

Peter Urlich

Peter Urlich is a New Zealand musician. He is one of the few NZ musicians who has managed to successfully cross the rock/house genre divide, performing successfully in both.-Early years:...

 and was eliminated in episode three.

Holt participated in the sixth series

Strictly Come Dancing (Series 6)

The sixth series of Strictly Come Dancing began on BBC One on 20 September 2008, with Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly returning as presenters, and Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli returning as judges....

 of Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom and Latin dances. The title of the show suggests a continuation of the long-running series Come Dancing, with an allusion to the film Strictly Ballroom...

as the professional partner of swimmer Mark Foster

Mark Foster (swimmer)

Mark Andrew Foster is a British professional swimmer, specialising in butterfly and freestyle at 50 metres....

. Holt and Foster were voted off on 26 October, placing 11th overall. She did not return for Series 7.

TV appearances

In 2007, Holt won TV2's Treasure Island: Pirates of the Pacific

Treasure Island (show)

Treasure Island is a popular reality television game show produced in New Zealand by Eyeworks Touchdown as well as in Ireland and Australia. In the show, contestants are isolated on a remote Fijian island and compete for a cash prize...

as one of "The Others". On 5 October 2008 Holt appeared on TV2's Shock Treatment

Shock Treatment

Shock Treatment is a 1981 musical-black comedy film and a follow-up to the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show. While not an outright sequel, the movie does feature several characters from the movie portrayed by different actors and several Rocky Horror actors portraying new characters...

. On 28 October 2008 was interviewed on Campbell Live

Campbell Live

Campbell Live is a half-hour long New Zealand current affairs programme weeknights at 7.00pm, on TV3 and is hosted by New Zealand television personality, John Campbell...

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She has been working on The Crowd Goes Wild

The Crowd Goes Wild

The Crowd Goes Wild is a half-hour sports show broadcast on New Zealand nationwide television channel Prime TV. The show premiered on Monday 26 June 2006....

, as a reporter and occasional presenter, since December 2009.