Name |
Flavia Cacace |
Height |
5 ft 1 in |
Naionality |
Italian |
Date of Birth |
13-March-1979 |
Place of Birth |
Naples, Italy |
Famous for |
Modeling |
Flavia Cacace is a British-based Italian professional dancer and model. Her professional dance partner is Vincent Simone (they are branded when performing together as 'Vincent and Flavia'), and for a number of years both partners appeared on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing.
In 2006 she appeared in the fourth series of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing. Her celebrity dancing partner for the show was Jimmy Tarbuck. However, the couple withdrew after only one show, because of medical advice which Tarbuck had received. Cacace was back dancing in the fifth series of the show, partnered by EastEnders star Matt Di Angelo. They got the only perfect score of the main series for their waltz in the final. For three years a relationship existed between them which ended in 2010. They reached the final of the show, but were beaten by Alesha Dixon and her professional partner Matthew Cutler. She also took part in the 2007 Christmas special dancing the rumba with partner Matt, and achieved a score of 39. Cacace and Di Angelo also competed together in the live tour of Strictly Come Dancing in January and February 2008. They won more shows than any other couple, coming first overall sixteen times and second a further ten times (out of a total of forty shows).
Cacace took part in the sixth series of Strictly Come Dancing, partnered by actor Phil Daniels who was eliminated in the first week after a dance-off against Don Warrington despite Gary Rhodes being bottom after the judge's scores. In late 2008, she took part in a Strictly Come Dancing special for Children in Need 2008 where she partnered presenter Terry Wogan against Tess Daly, partnered by Anton du Beke, who ended up as the winners.