Charlotte " Charlie" Bruce is a British jazz dance dancer from Cropston, Leicestershire,
Biography
Born in
Melton Mowbray and raised in Cropston, north of
Leicester, Bruce began dancing at the age of three, taking lessons from the age of seven at the Charnwood Dance School,
and receiving a scholarship to attend the Arts Educational School in
Tring,
Hertfordshire, between the ages of ten and sixteen.
[" Charlie Bruce ", BBC, retrieved 5 December 2010] She later studied at the Laine Theatre Arts school in
Epsom.
She 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.
Career
2010: SYTYCD
When Charlie 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. She got through to the top 100, and then to the televised stages as one of the top 14. She 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. She won the contest, receiving £100,000 prize money.
[Jefferies, Mark (2010) " Charlie Bruce: So You Think You Can Dance win rescued my dream – Exclusive ", Daily Mirror, 15 February 2010, retrieved 5 December 2010]
After So You Think You Can Dance
In July 2010, 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.
[Jones, Becky (2010) " Charlie Bruce is having the time of her life – she tells Becky Jones all about it ", Leicester Mercury, 28 July 2010, retrieved 5 December 2010][" Vicky Hoyles and Charlie Bruce bag leading roles ", Melton Times, 2 June 2010, retrieved 5 December 2010] On 12 August 2010, she performed on the series finale of FOX's
So You Think You Can Dance in the United States.
Second World Dance championship
In May 2010, Bruce represented the United Kingdom in the Second Dance World Championship in Mexico, where she was partnered by Benjamin Jones.
[" Eliminan equipo de Colombia en “Segundo Campeonato Mundial de Baile” ", La Crónica de Hoy, 24 May 2010, retrieved 6 December 2010] She withdrew from the competition in Week 3 (31 May) due to an injury.
Her replacement was Lizzie Gough. However, team England was eliminated from the competition in Week 4 (6 June).
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