Bristol Strictly star Jayde Adams has revealed she would have marked the 40th birthday of her late sister Jenna with a special tribute dance re-enacting their freestyle disco dancing duo days, if she was still in the competition. Instead, Jayde and her family are marking the poignant occasion with a fundraising drive for the charity which helped them - and an appeal to all friends to donate the money they would have spent at her 40th birthday party.
If Jayde had been taking to the Strictly dance floor tomorrow she and partner Karen Hauer would have been performing their couples' choice dance and as it would have been Jenna's birthday there was only one possible option. Jayde told Bristol Live she and Karen would have done a freestyle disco dancing style to Firework by Katy Perry - wearing replicas of the costumes that she and Jenna wore as teenagers. “But this just leaves me able to do it on my own stage in the future,” she said.
Jayde won the hearts of the nation with a dance early in the series that was a tribute to Jenna, and also wowed the judges with a now-iconic re-enactment of Flashdance. She was eliminated from the show two weeks ago. Last year and early this year in a BBC We Are England documentary, Jayde spoke of how she gained her love of dance by training and entering freestyle disco dancing competitions around the country with Jenna.
