Erin Boag

Erin Boag

Erin Boag is a professional ballroom dancer. She is best known for being on Strictly Come Dancing in the UK with Anton du Beke. Boag has not appeared as a contestant on the show since Series 10. She became engaged to business consultant Peter O’Dowd in 2007.

About Erin Boag in brief

Summary Erin BoagErin Boag is a professional ballroom dancer. She is best known for being on Strictly Come Dancing in the UK with Anton du Beke. The couple met in 1997, and won the 1998 and 1999 New Zealand Championships. They turned professional in 2002, competing mainly in the United Kingdom. Boag has not appeared as a contestant on the show since Series 10. She made a brief cameo in 2015, giving advice to contestant Katie Derham, who was partnered with Du Beke that year.

She became engaged to business consultant Peter O’Dowd on New Year’s Eve 2007. In August 2017, Erin gave birth to a baby boy, Robert Ewan, named on his father’s 50th birthday; Boag’s professional dancing godfather is the father of the baby boy. The baby boy was born on Christmas Eve, 2017. He is the first child for Boag, who is also a mother to a four-year-old daughter, Lizzie, and a three-year old son, Ewan.