Former Strictly Come Dancing star has weighed in on this year's contest (Image: BBC)

Strictly star has already performed their routine - as pro 'reveals past experience

Strictly Come Dancing professional Ola Jordan previously took to the dance floor with the JLS singer for the Christmas edition of the series in 2012

by · Birmingham Live

Former Strictly Come Dancing star Ola Jordan has weighed in on this year's contest as she spoke about her past experience with former partner JB Gill.

The professional dancer, who starred in the dance show as a pro dancer from 2006 to 2015, previously took to the dance floor with the JLS singer for the Christmas edition of the series in 2012.

Together, they managed to impress everyone and went on to be crowned the winners of the festive special, scoring an impressive 39 as the judges handed out three top scores of 10 and one nine.

Now, JB is taking part in this year's series of the BBC hit competition alongside Welsh favourite Amy Dowden and the duo will be dancing a Jive to Hey Ya by Outkast on Saturday night.

Ola Jordan starred in the dance show as a pro dancer from 2006 to 2015 (Image: Getty Images)

Ola has since let split that this isn’t the first time JB has performed the Jive as she revealed that the former duo performed the dance style during the Christmas special.

“I'm looking forward to seeing JB and Amy. It's funny because they haven't mentioned that JB actually did a Strictly Christmas special, so he has already done a Jive,” the 42-year-old said when teaming up with Mecca Bingo to share her thoughts ahead of tonight’s live show.

“He did it with me back in 2012 and he was very good when I was teaching him, so I'm looking forward to seeing what he does in his Jive this weekend.”

Ola previously took to the dance floor with the JLS singer for the Christmas edition of the series in 2012

She continued: “Not just JB though, I’m looking forward to all of the dances. The thing is, everyone has different dances and ideas so it’s nice to see what they come up with every week.!”

Speaking about the other dancers she is excited to, she went on to say: ““For example, Montell and Johannes have done three ballroom dances which I think is unfair because she is very good.

Strictly Come Dancing professional Johannes Radebe and partner Montell Douglas (Image: BBC)

"I want to see her do a Latin or a rhythmical dance and see how good she is going to be because at the moment we’re not really seeing what she’s capable of.”

Ola added: ““So, I’m looking forward to seeing Montell, but she’s got Couple’s Choice which isn’t really a Latin dance, so we’ll see what that’s going to be like. I’m still looking forward to her doing a rhythmical dance like Samba, Salsa, or Cha-Cha, it’s very different to a ballroom so that might be different for her.”

Strictly Come Dancing airs Saturdays and Sundays on BBC One