Aurelia Cole: Meet Brendan Cole’s Adorable Daughter

Brendan Cole is a New Zealand ballroom dancer, specialising in Latin American dancing.

Brendan Cole is most famous for appearing as a professional dancer on the BBC One show, Strictly Come Dancing. From 2005 to 2009, he was a judge on the New Zealand version of the show, Dancing with the Stars.

Brendan Cole was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has danced since he was six, and moved to the United Kingdom when he was eighteen, where he studied the pasodoble, ballroom and ballet at Donaheys, Clayton, Manchester. Before becoming a professional dancer Cole was a builder and roof layer, having left school at 17.

Brendan Cole danced with Camilla Dallerup, a fellow contestant on the BBC’s earlier long-running show Come Dancing, as amateurs from 1996, and from 2002 to 2004 as professionals.

In the winter of 2004, Brendan Cole had his first acting experience featuring in the UK feature film Everything to Dance for alongside Sasha Jackson, Travis Oliver and Sally Reeve.

In October 2009, Brendan Cole appeared on the New Zealand travel show Intrepid Journeys. During a hunting lesson filmed in Vanuatu he was shown killing and eating a chicken, prompting international news coverage.

Brendan Cole is married to Zoe Hobbs, a British model, and they have two children so far; the first being Aurelia Cole.

Aurelia Cole was born on Christmas Day 2012.