Ola Jordan and her dance partner Robbie Savage have together been one of the real surprise packages of this year’s Strictly.
The pair’s routines have been surprisingly sexy and they’ve managed to stay in the overall reckoning for the top spot – much to everyone’s amazement.
Robbie in particular has been something of a revelation – going from hated midfield footballing thug to popular housewives’ pin up boy at one fell swoop! Anyone looking at the Strictly Come Dancing odds should remember this.
But he hasn’t done it all on his own – so let’s have a closer look at pint-size Pole, Ola, who is guiding Robbie on to ever greater things.
Ola is 28 years old, she stands at 5’4” and was born in a small town near Poland’s capital, Warsaw. Dancing from an early age, Ola won the Open Polish Championship in 1999 aged 17, before going on to compete in the World Championships in which she finished a very creditable 12th.
Ola split from her dancing partner shortly after the World Championships and was looking for a new one when she received a phone call from James Jordan. James asked to meet her and the meeting in Poland back in 2000 went well. In April that year, she moved to England and a dance match became a love match as the pair married in October 2003. They first took part in Strictly in Series 4. Those following the Strictly Come dancing winner odds will know this.
Ola has partnered DJ Spoony, Kenny Logan, Andrew Castle, Paul Daniels and, of course, Chris Hollins with whom she took the Strictly crown two years ago.
Ola’s speciality is Latin American dancing and her favourite dance is the Samba. Last week, she and Robbie did an American Smooth which received a mixed reception and pushed them out to fifth favourites at 25-1 with Britain’s bookmakers.
But it won’t just be Robbie Savage who is hoping the pair go a lot further yet. Ola is very popular with the vast majority of Strictly’s male viewers!