Louis Smith Gymnast- 2021 Masked Dancer Is the Pommel Expert!
Louis Smith Gymnast- 2021 Masked Dancer Is the Olympic Medalist!
Who is the Olympic medal winner Louis Smith Gymnast?
After winning the ITV reality dancing competition-The Masked Dancer, there is a tidal wave of curiosity among the ITV viewers to know about him.
Are you also the passenger of the same train? Then explore!
Who Is Louis Smith Gymnast?
Louis Smith MBE is an artistic gymnast, who won 2 silver medals, and a bronze medal.
He was born on 22 April 1989 in Peterborough. His mother was from British, and his father was from Jamaica. At the age of 3, after the split from his father, he lived with his mother in Britain.
When Louis was 6 years old, he had ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). And up to 11 years of age, he continued taking Ritalin for ADHD.
English singer and dancer Aston Merrygold was his local friend at that time.
Louis Smith Gymnast in Strictly Come Dancing
Apart from his gymnastics life and winning goal of medals, followers found Louis in the ITV Strictly Come Dancing reality show of the 2012 series.
There, Flavia Cacace was his partner. Louis had been able to make it up to the grand finale. And in that season, Smith and Cacace were the winners.
Talking about the Strictly Come Dancing journey, Louis Smith said,
“It was brilliant. The training was harder than gymnastics as everything was a new challenge. I never expected to win – I just went out every week with the aim of doing my best.”
ITV Masked Dancer Winner
In the 2021 series of ITV dancing reality show the Masked Dancer, Louis Smith participated and disguised as a carwash.
With his outstanding performance besides his pommel horse talent, Smith impressed and won all the ITV viewers and the judges’ hearts along with the competition.
However, he’s recently been featured on a musical show – “Bring It On the Musical”, which Smith retweeted on his Twitter.
Interest in Gymnastics Since Boyhood
Since childhood, Louis had keen interest in gymnastics. And that is why, at the age of 7, he didn’t go for the choral scholarship that he got and continued giving more concentration on gymnastics.
He mainly focused on learning and expertise in the pommel horse. In the beginning, he learned pommel by keeping his feet in the bucket; the bucket was tied to a rope, hanging from the ceiling.
While recalling his childhood, Louis said,
“My mum took me to a variety of sports, but from a young age, it was gymnastics that captured my attention and which I really wanted to progress in. I had to sacrifice a lot of things in my social life, and I also didn’t do A-Levels as I wanted to focus on the sport.”
The hard efforts of Louis did not go in vain. And the results started when the junior Louis won gold on the Pommel Horse in the 2006 Commonwealth Games, Melbourne, England.
Career Life
His first world championship was in 2007, where he participated in the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, held in Germany.
In 2008, Louis Smith won his first silver medal as a junior gymnast in the World Cup Pommel Horse, held in Moscow.
Later in 2009, he won the first silver medal as a senior in the pommel horse competition of the European Championships.
And this is not the end for this highly ambitious gymnast. And in 2012, he won his second silver medal in pommel horse attending the European Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
This enthusiastic British gymnast did not stop and went on attending to the peak as far as he could reach.
In the 2012 London Olympics, Smith was in the Great Britain team and participated in the Pommel Horse competition.
Well, the following year in 2013, the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) appointed him in the 2013 New Year honor to contribute to the gymnastics.
Though he took retirement from that in 2014 again returned and won the silver medal in the 2016 Olympics, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Who Is She Dating with?
In 2012, Louis was in a relationship with a Spain model and hairdresser, Chantelle, from Spain. But
it didn’t last more than a year. And after the split from her, Louis had been away to pair up again with another girl.
He said,
“Women can break you.”
But now, this Pommel Horse expert and Olympic medalist has been dating the Jazz dancer Charlie Bruce since November 2017.
However, in February 2021, the couple is blessed with their first baby girl- Marley Valentina Smith. And Louis Smith MBE revealed the gender of the baby with an aesthetic caption on his Instagram.
Louis Smith Gymnast Net Worth
32 years old British gymnast Louis Smith net worth is around $1-5 million.
So, he has earned the most from his gymnastic career.
Louis Smith took retirement from sports in 2018. And he is now attending different seminars on gymnastics and participating in various dancing reality shows.
