{"id":47025,"date":"2025-09-27T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.tvguide.co.uk\/?p=8509"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:19:18","slug":"emmerdale-star-lewis-cope-connection-to-david-beckham-previous-dance-history-now-strictly-ballroom-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tvguide.co.uk\/emmerdale-insider\/cast\/emmerdale-star-lewis-cope-connection-to-david-beckham-previous-dance-history-now-strictly-ballroom-contender\/","title":{"rendered":" Emmerdale star Lewis Cope on Strictly Come Dancing: David Beckham connection, dance history and actress girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before winning over Emmerdale fans as Nicky Miligan<\/a>, Lewis Cope had already built an impressively varied career. And one such job saw him become a dancer. Something that now puts him right in the mix to take home the glitterball trophy on Strictly Come Dancing.<\/p>

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From modelling in a high-profile David Beckham campaign to showing off his moves in a TV hip hop troupe, the actor has now swapped the Dales for the dance floor as he prepares to take on the Strictly Come Dancing ballroom.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Former Emmerdale actor Lewis Cope is taking part in Strictly this year (Credit: Brett Cove\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Who is Lewis Cope \u2013 age, birth place, everything we know!<\/h2>\n

Lewis Cope was born on March 19, 1995. This makes him 30 years old. He grew up in Hartlepool, County Durham, in a working class family.<\/p>\n

Lewis is from a huge family \u2013 he has 13 brothers and sisters and 13 nieces and nephews! Phew.<\/p>\n

He revealed to The Mirror<\/a> last year: \u201cI\u2019m from a family of 14. Most of my brothers are boxers, but I chose to dance.\u201d<\/p>

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