Pasha Kovalev
Pavel Kovalev is a Russian professional dancer. He competed on the third season of So You Think You Can Dance in 2007. In 2011, he joined BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. He went on to win series twelve with his partner Caroline Flack. He holds the record for the longest consecutive run of perfect scores.
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Pavel Kovalev is a Russian professional dancer. He competed on the third season of So You Think You Can Dance in 2007. In 2011, he joined BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. He went on to win series twelve with his partner Caroline Flack. He announced that 2018 was his final series on the show as he had decided to ‘find a new challenge’ He holds the record for the longest consecutive run of perfect scores, with 13. He was also the first to reach the finals three times, as the runner up of Series 9 and 10, and the winner of Series 16. He is a member of Superstars of DanceDancing with the Stars, a spin-off of Dancing with the stars. He has also appeared on The Voice and The Voice Kids. He currently lives in London with his wife, Anya Garnis, and their two children. He also has a son, Pasha, who was born in Russia in 1998. He moved to the United States in 2001, where he competed in the US Open from 2002 to 2006. In 2007, he and Garnis auditioned for season 3 of the U.S. version of the reality show. The pair have since participated in the eight subsequent seasons as either choreographers or All-Star partners to the contestants. They currently hold the record of the highest average for any celebrity on the. show – with an average of 36. 9 – and another record for scoring the most perfect scores – with a total of five. They also hold the total score record for each of their last four dances, with a score of 93.
He and his partner Ashley Roberts were runners-up on the sixteenth series of the show. They were the first couple to receive a perfect score for all four of their dances, and were also first to receive all three perfect scores for all three of their final dances. In July 2014, he returned with Garnis to choreograph a new Jive routine for contestants Bridget Whitman and Emilio Dosal during Season 11. He won the first and second series on his first and first and winning on his second series. In September 2011 he became the new professional dancer of its ninth series, replacing Jared Murillo who had left after only one with the BBC. He finished runner up on both the ninth and tenth series with celebrity partners Chelsee Healey and Kimberley Walsh. In the second and third series, he finished runner-up with his celebrity partner Chelsee. Walsh. He then won series 12 with his celebrity partner, Ashley Roberts, despite facing backlash over her past dance experience and landing in the bottom two three times. In season 11, he also reached the finals, finishing runner up three out of five series, and winning series 12. In 2013, he was the first Russian dancer to win the StrictLY Come Dancing competition. In 2015, he won series 11 with his Celebrity Partner, Caroline Flack, and won Series 12.
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