Charlie Bruce

Charlotte "Charlie" Bruce is a British jazz dancer from Cropston, Leicestershire, who won the first UK series of So You Think You Can Dance in February 2010. She trained in dance at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts (previously the Arts Educational School Tring) and both dance and musical theatre at Laine Theatre Arts, a performing arts college in Epsom, Surrey. She was the youngest contestant in SYTYCD. Born in Melton Mowbray and raised in Cropston, north of Leicester, Bruce began dancing at the age of three, taking lessons from the age of seven at the Charnwood Dance School, and receiving a scholarship to attend the Arts Educational School in Tring, Hertfordshire, between the ages of ten and sixteen. She later studied at the Laine Theatre Arts school in Epsom.She began dating British Gold Medallist Gymnast Louis Smith in November 2017, in September 2020 it was confirmed that she was pregnant and in a gender reveal video on social media they discovered they were in fact expecting a baby girl, Charlie revealed that she was due in late February 2021.