Erin Boag (born 17 March 1975) is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of three, originally starting ballet and later moving into ballroom, Latin and jazz. Born in Auckland, she moved to Australia as a teenager to progress her dancing career, before moving to London in 1996.

Professional career

Erin Boag's regular professional partner is Anton du Beke. She and du Beke met in 1997 and together they won the 1998 and 1999 New Zealand Championships. They turned professional in 2002, competing mainly in the UK. Their best result on the competition circuit was in November 2003 when they won the IDTA Classic in England. They now both appear on Strictly Come Dancing.

Strictly Come Dancing

She has competed in all seven series of the BBC's television series Strictly Come Dancing with the following results:

* Fourth in Series 1 with rugby league player Martin Offiah
* Third in Series 2 with comedian Julian Clary
* Runner-up in 2005 with hurdling champion and record holder Colin Jackson
* Eliminated in week 7 of the 2006 competition, dancing with football player Peter Schmeichel
* Knocked out of the 2007 competition in week 3 with her partner, snooker player Willie Thorne
* Eliminated in Week 12 of the 2008 competition, with Austin Healey. They placed 4th in the competition
* Eliminated in Week 10 of the 2009 competition with actor Ricky Groves.

For the Christmas Special 2006, she was joined again by Colin Jackson. After the combined scores of the judges' marks and the votes of the studio audience, Colin and Erin won the competition, after getting the full 40 marks from the judges.

Personal life

After being introduced by Camilla Dallerup, Boag became engaged to business consultant Peter O'Dowd on Christmas Eve 2007.They married on 17 June 2009, in Italy