Brendan Cole
2006 Love Island runner-up and Just The Two Of Us runner-up, professional dancer Brendan Cole is no stranger to entertainment TV. He has featured in the first five series of Strictly Come Dancing.
In series 5, he danced with Kelly Brook, but Kelly, at well over the half-way stage in the series, had to pull out following the death of her father.
Brendan Cole partnered Fiona Phillips in Strictly Come Dancing series 3.
The News of the World reported that Brendan got irate with Fiona Phillips and screamed, "You'd make a cr*p sh*g, love."
In series 4 of Strictly Come Dancing, Brendan Cole partnered Claire King. In spite of not always pleasing judge Len Goodman, they made progress but were voted off in the eighth show.
Brendan Cole heralds from Christchurch, New Zealand but came to the UK when he was 19.
Although Brendan Cole has been dancing since he was 6, it was not his first career and he is one of the few professional dancers to have previously worked as a builder.
Brendan Cole had a long personal and professional relationship with Camilla Dallerup.
They started dancing together in 1996 as amateurs. Although based in Britain they danced for New Zealand. From 2002 to 2004 they danced as professionals but after they split up and also broke off their relationship, Camilla started dancing with Ian Waite.
"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]."
Brendan Cole partnered Natasha Kaplinsky in series one of Strictly Come Dancing and they won.
Their rapport caused a stir and to some it was no surprise that Camilla called off her engagement to Brendan.
Brendan was less successful in series 2 of Strictly Come Dancing when he partnered Sarah Manners.
Brendan Cole is a keen sportsman and enjoys American sitcoms.
Brendan Cole made the shortlist of Company's most eligible batchelor 2006 competition. In his profile he reveals that he goes weak at the knees when he has his bottom kissed!
In November 2006, The Sunday Mirror reported that Abi Titmuss and Brendan Cole had started going out together.
A few months later, in February 2007, The Mirror was reporting a liaison between Brendan Cole and Adele Silva.
However, the Sunday Mirror followed up with a quote from Adele Silva:
"I've known Brendan for a little while and I'm not going to deny I've spent some time with him.
"But I'm very much a single girl and I'm loving being on my own right now."
In 2007 Brendan Cole resumed his dance partnership with Camilla Dallerup to represent the UK in the first Eurovision Dance Contest.