Camilla Dallerup

Camilla Sacre-Dallerup (born 6 April 1974) is a Danish author, life coach, hypnotherapist and former ballroom dancer.

Dance career Dallerup was born in Aalborg, where she started dancing at the age of two and a half when her mother took her to her first class. She won the Danish Junior Championships at the age of 12. Dallerup later moved to London, United Kingdom, where she lived and competed with Brendan Cole, who also became her fiancé. In 2003, Dallerup and Cole were placed third in Latin American at the UK Closed Championships, and in the top 12 of the world professionals at the Open British Championships. From 2004, Ian Waite has been her professional dance partner and they were placed second in Latin American at the 2005 UK Closed Championships and in the semi-final of the International Championships at the Royal Albert Hall in 2004.

In September 2007, Dallerup and Cole represented the UK in the inaugural Eurovision Dance Contest 2007.

In 2010, she was a guest on Bill Bailey's Birdwatching Bonanza on Sky1. In 2014, she won an episode of Pointless Celebrities on BBC One.

Other work Dallerup joined a modelling agency at a very early age in Denmark. In 2006, she was the face and legs for Aristoc stockings.

She has acted as the head judge on the New Zealand version of Dancing With The Stars since its seventh season in 2018.

Acting

2011: Dallerup played the part of Elaine in Tim Firth's stage adaptation of the film Calendar Girls opposite her husband, Kevin Sacre. In pantomime she has played: 2011: Genie, Aladdin in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. 2012: Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Telford, Shropshire. 2013: Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire. 2014–15: Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Chesterfield Pomegranate Theatre, Derbyshire. 2015–16: Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Worthing Pavilion, West Sussex.

Life coaching career Sacre-Dallerup founded her own life coaching and mindful living business Zenme and lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of Strictly Inspirational (2015), a self-help book and autobiography, and Reinvent ME, a second self-help book, both published by Watkins Publishing. and is a life coach, hypnotherapist and meditation teacher.

Personal life Dallerup was in a relationship with her dance partner Brendan Cole for six years before the first series of Strictly.

Dallerup married Hollyoaks actor Kevin Sacre on 29 July 2010 in a ceremony in Ibiza