Adam Peaty on Strictly Come Dancing: Who is 2021 contestant and what is he famous for?
Swimmer is competing on the 2021 series of the BBC competition
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Olympic swimmer Adam Peaty is one of the celebrity contestants taking part in this year’s series of Strictly Come Dancing.
Born on 28 December 1994, Fletcher was raised in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. He joined a swimming club in the town when he was nine years old, and was winning races and setting club records by the time he was 12.
He went on to specialise in the breast stroke, winning the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics (the first gold medal won by a male British swimmer in 24 years). Peaty retained the title at the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021, the first British swimmer ever to retain an Olympic title.
The athlete is also an eight-time World Champion and the holder of the world record in 50 metre and 100 metre breaststroke events.
While Peaty was training at Loughborough University, he met girlfriend Eirianedd Munro. The couple have one son together.
Strictly is one of his first forays into entertainment, with the swimmer’s only previous experience of the format being his appearances on the comedy show A League of Their Own.
Tweeting about training for Strictly, he wrote: “Never enjoyed something so much in my life, so excited to get started! Such an incredible experience and if anyone knows me, I’m not too good on land Let’s get those hips moving.”
Peaty is competing against fellow Strictly contestants including children’s TV entertainer Rhys Stephenson, McFly singer Tom Fletcher and journalist Dan Walker. Read the full line-up here.
His partner on the show is Katya Jones. While the pair have impressed the judges throughout the competition, last Saturday (30 October) they found themselves in the bottom two for the first time. All four judges voted to save them, sending home Judi Love and Graziano di Prima.
Strictly Come Dancing airs on Saturday nights on BBC One.
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