Dianne Buswell is an Australian ballroom dancer. She was a professional dancer on the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars in 2015. Buswell became a professional dancer on the British series Strictly Come Dancing in 2017, being partnered with Reverend Richard Coles. In the 2018 series, she reached the final with partner Joe Sugg. Dianne Buswell was born in Bunbury, Australia, and she started ballroom dancing at the age of 4. Dianne and her brother Andrew Buswell were Adult New Vogue WA Champions for 2008 and 2010.
She also appeared on So You Think You Can Dance Australia. Buswell joined the live dance show Burn the Floor in January 2011. She joined Australia's Dancing with the Stars in 2015, paired with Australian AFL star Jude Bolton; they were the fifth couple eliminated. Following her elimination from Dancing with the Stars, Buswell rejoined the Burn the Floor tour. Buswell joined the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing in 2017.
Her celebrity partner for the 2017 series was the Reverend Richard Coles. They were the second couple eliminated in the series, losing the dance-off to Simon Rimmer and Karen Clifton in a unanimous decision. She was paired with television presenter Tim Vincent for Strictly Come Dancing 2017 Children in Need special.
For the sixteenth series of the show in 2018, she was paired with Joe Sugg, in which they were runners-up alongside Faye Tozer and Giovanni Pernice and Ashley Roberts and Pasha Kovalev, losing to Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton. In December 2018, Buswell was announced to be joining the Strictly Come Dancing Live! Tour lineup. Alongside her partner Joe Sugg, they won more shows on the tour than any other couple that year.
- 2025 - Won the BAFTA TV Award for Memorable Moment for her Strictly Come Dancing waltz with Chris McCausland
- 2025 - Competed in Strictly Come Dancing Series 23 with Stefan Dennis
- 2024 - Won Strictly Come Dancing Series 22 with Chris McCausland, becoming a Glitterball champion
- 2023 - Finished runner-up on Strictly Come Dancing Series 21 with Bobby Brazier
- 2022 - Appeared as a contestant on BBC One’s Freeze the Fear with Wim Hof
- 2019 - Named the UK’s most-subscribed new YouTuber of the year
- 2019 - Won 28 out of 29 dates on the Strictly Come Dancing Live! UK tour with Joe Sugg
- 2018 - Finished runner-up on Strictly Come Dancing Series 16 with Joe Sugg
- 2017 - Joined BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing as a professional dancer
- 2015 - Competed as a professional dancer on Dancing with the Stars Australia Season 15
- 2011 - Joined international touring company Burn The Floor as a professional dancer
- 2010 - Won the Western Australian Open Adult New Vogue Championship
- 2008 - Won the Western Australian Open Adult New Vogue Championship
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