Charlotte "Charlie" Bruce is a British jazz dancer from Cropston, Leicestershire, who won the first UK series of So You Think You Can Dance in February 2010.
10 Facts About Charlie Bruce
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Charlie Bruce trained in dance at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts and both dance and musical theatre at Laine Theatre Arts, a performing arts college in Epsom, Surrey.
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Charlie Bruce later studied at the Laine Theatre Arts school in Epsom.
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Charlie Bruce began dating British Gold Medallist Gymnast Louis Smith in November 2017, in September 2020 it was confirmed that she was pregnant and in a gender reveal video on social media they discovered they were in fact expecting a baby girl, Charlie revealed that she was due in late February 2021.
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When Charlie Bruce was 19 years old, while working as a sales assistant in a shoe shop, she attended an audition for So You Think You Can Dance.
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Charlie Bruce got through to the top 100, and then to the televised stages as one of the top 14.
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Charlie Bruce has said on numerous occasions that she wanted to be seen as more than a 19-year-old girl dancing, and at the end of the final all of the judges thought that she had accomplished that.
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In July 2010, Charlie Bruce began working as understudy for the lead role of Baby Houseman in the West End production of Dirty Dancing at the Aldwych Theatre, making her debut performance in the role that month.
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In May 2010, Charlie Bruce represented the United Kingdom in the Second Dance World Championship in Mexico, where she was partnered by Benjamin Jones.
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Charlie Bruce withdrew from the competition in Week 3 due to an injury.