Dance Competitions
In 2004, she became one of the celebrities to take part in Strictly Ice Dancing, a one-off ice dance version of Strictly Come Dancing.
During October to December 2006, Smillie took part in Series Four of Strictly Come Dancing with dance partnerMatthew Cutler. Smillie gradually improved as the series progressed. Len Goodman often referred to her as theDark Horse of the competition, and played music from the Black Beauty TV series over her training clips on the complementary show Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two.
Smillie came fifth out of the original fourteen competitors, despite achieving her highest scores of the competition and finishing third highest out of the remaining five competitors in the judges vote.
| Week | Dance/Song | Judges' score | Result | ||||
| Hoorwood | Phillips | Goodman | Tonioli | Total | |||
| 1 | Female Group Dance | - | - | - | - | - | Safe |
| 2 | Quickstep/9 to 5 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 25 | Safe |
| 3 | Jive/Hanky Panky | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 27 | Safe |
| 4 | Foxtrot/Stuck on You | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 29 | Safe |
| 5 | Salsa/Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough | 7 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 29 | Safe |
| 6 | American Smooth/It's Oh So Quiet | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 27 | Safe |
| 7 | Cha Cha Cha/Dancing in the Moonlight | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 30 | Safe |
| 8 | Waltz/If You Don't Know Me by Now | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 30 | Bottom 2 |
| 9 | Viennese Waltz/Breakaway Samba/Club Tropicana |
8 7 |
8 9 |
9 9 |
9 9 |
34 34 |
Eliminated |
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