Dancing with the Stars is a reality show airing on ABC in the United States, and CTV in Canada. The show is the American version of the British BBC television series Strictly Come Dancing.
Tom Bergeron is the host. His co-hosts have changed several times over the seasons. In the first season, the co-host was Lisa Canning. E! reporter Samantha Harris co-hosted from seasons two through nine. In 2010 model and Season 7 champion, Brooke Burke, took over as co-host.
The contestant pairs consist of a celebrity paired with a professional dancer. Past celebrity contestants include a race-car driver, an Olympic speedskater, football players, supermodels, actors, singers, an astronaut, and teen-heartthrobs. Each couple performs predetermined dances and compete against the others for judges' points and audience votes. Whichever couple receives the lowest combined total of judges points and audience votes is eliminated until the champion dance pair remains.
A figure skating spin-off called Skating With The Stars is scheduled to air on ABC on November 22, 2010.
Seasons
Season No. of
Stars No. of
weeks Season Premiere Date Season Finale Date Winner Runner-Up Third Place
1 – Summer 2005 6 6 June 1, 2005 July 6, 2005 Kelly Monaco &
Alec Mazo John O'Hurley &
Charlotte Jørgensen Joey McIntyre &
Ashly DelGrosso
2 – Winter 2006 10 8 January 5, 2006 February 26, 2006 Drew Lachey &
Cheryl Burke Jerry Rice &
Anna Trebunskaya Stacy Keibler &
Tony Dovolani
3 – Fall 2006 11 10 September 12, 2006 November 15, 2006 Emmitt Smith &
Cheryl Burke Mario Lopez &
Karina Smirnoff Joey Lawrence &
Edyta Sliwinska
4 – Spring 2007 11 10 March 19, 2007 May 22, 2007 Apolo Anton Ohno &
Julianne Hough Joey Fatone &
Kym Johnson Laila Ali &
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
5 – Fall 2007 12 10 September 24, 2007 November 27, 2007 Helio Castroneves &
Julianne Hough Mel B &
Maksim Chmerkovskiy Marie Osmond &
Jonathan Roberts
6 – Spring 2008 12 10 March 17, 2008 May 20, 2008 Kristi Yamaguchi &
Mark Ballas Jason Taylor &
Edyta Sliwinska Cristian de la Fuente &
Cheryl Burke
7 – Fall 2008 13 10 September 22, 2008 November 25, 2008 Brooke Burke &
Derek Hough Warren Sapp &
Kym Johnson Lance Bass &
Lacey Schwimmer
8 – Spring 2009 13 11 March 9, 2009 May 19, 2009 Shawn Johnson &
Mark Ballas Gilles Marini &
Cheryl Burke Melissa Rycroft &
Tony Dovolani
9 – Fall 2009 16 10 September 21, 2009 November 24, 2009 Donny Osmond &
Kym Johnson Mýa &
Dmitry Chaplin Kelly Osbourne &
Louis van Amstel
10 – Spring 2010 11 10 March 22, 2010 May 25, 2010 Nicole Scherzinger &
Derek Hough Evan Lysacek &
Anna Trebunskaya Erin Andrews &
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
11 – Fall 2010 12 10 September 20, 2010 November 23, 2010 TBA TBA TBA
Scoring and voting procedure
In seasons 1 and 2, only the overall ranking between competitors by the judges and the public was relevant. In season 3 and all subsequent seasons, the scoring system has made the exact scores relevant as well.
The scoring begins with the judges' marks. Each judge gives a 1 to 10 score, for a total score of 3 to 30 (the lowest individual score, however, was a 2 for Master P's Paso Doble in season 2, and the lowest total score for a dance was an 8). When multiple performances are scored, only the cumulative total counts. The contestants' "judges' shares" are calculated as the percentage of the total number of points awarded to all contestants that evening. (For example, if a team earned 20 points on a night when the judges awarded 200 points, their judges' share would be 20/200 = 10%.) This percentage is then added to the percentage of North American votes received by each contestant. The bottom two couples are identified in the results show, and the couple with the lowest combined total is eliminated. Season 8 added an occasional "dance-off," in which contestants could re-do one of their dances, in an effort to improve their judges' score. This might be discontinued due to the eliminated couple always scoring higher than or equivalent to the couple that was saved.
Public voting is conducted via a toll-free number, the ABC web site, and, most recently, text messages; contestants can vote during and immediately after each performance show. The maximum number of votes per voter per medium is equal to the number of couples performing that night, or five votes, whichever is larger. In April 2010 it was revealed that dancer Kate Gosselin had e-mailed friends and family asking them to vote as many as ten times each. Whether such ballot-stuffing is possible under ABC's voting algorithm remains to be determined.
In several cases where ESPN coverage of Monday Night Football airs instead on an ABC affiliate in an NFL team's home market, the program is delayed to air immediately after that station's local news, and a voting window confined only to the area codes of the pre-empted market is opened up to allow affected viewers to still put their votes in for the competition, though this is on a market-by-market basis.
Top 10 Scoring Couples by Averages
Rank Celebrity Professional Partner Season Place Average
1 Kristi Yamaguchi Mark Ballas 6 1st 28.3
2 Gilles Marini Cheryl Burke 8 2nd 28.1
3 Drew Lachey Cheryl Burke 2 1st 27.7
3 Stacy Keibler Tony Dovolani 2 3rd 27.7
5 Mario Lopez Karina Smirnoff 3 2nd 27.6
5 Mel B Maksim Chmerkovskiy 5 2nd 27.6
7 Apolo Anton Ohno Julianne Hough 4 1st 27.53
7 Nicole Scherzinger Derek Hough 10 1st 27.53
9 Joey Fatone Kym Johnson 4 2nd 27.47
10 Mýa Dmitry Chaplin 9 2nd 27.3
General information
]Payment
On the April 18, 2006 episode of the Howard Stern Radio Show, Stern's wife Beth said that she was guaranteed to earn $125,000 for just appearing on DWTS (in Season 3) and could earn up to more than double the original sum, depending on how long she lasted on the program.
Withdrawals
Lil' Romeo was the first person to withdraw in the second season. His father, Master P, took his place in the competition, being partnered with Ashly DelGrosso.
On the sixth week of competition during the third season, Sara Evans cited her divorce as the reason for leaving the competition.
Another withdrawal occurred during the run-up to Season 4 on February 28, when Vincent Pastore withdrew from the competition after only one week of training. Pastore said he did not realize how much work was needed during a ten-week period, and that he was not up to the physical demands of the show. He was replaced on March 2 by actor John Ratzenberger who was partnered with Edyta Sliwinska.
Misty May-Treanor was forced to withdraw from Season 7 after tearing her Achilles tendon during rehearsals; the injury required surgery.
In the eight season both Jewel and Nancy O'Dell were forced to pull out of competition prior to the premiere due to injuries. Jewel suffered a fractured tibia in both legs and was replaced with Holly Madison. O'Dell had a torn meniscus that required surgery and was replaced with Melissa Rycroft.
Tom DeLay, in Season 9, withdrew in the third week of competition due to a full stress fracture that had developed in both feet from an earlier pre-stress fracture in one foot. Delay was declared safe before he announced his withdrawal during the October 6, 2009 results show. Debi Mazar was still eliminated that night despite DeLay's departure.
[edit]Celebrity and professional partner injuries
Other celebrities and professional partners have experienced minor injuries, or in some cases more serious, which did not affect later performances. In Season 5, Marie Osmond infamously fainted after her performance in week five of the competition, after which the program immediately went into commercial; however, Osmond was able to regain composure and continued with the program. Episodes of food poisoning or the flu have caused stars like Jane Seymour to miss portions of other programs.
During week seven of Season 6, Cristián de la Fuente suffered a ruptured tendon in his left biceps muscle during his performance. The judges critiqued him according to his performance up to the injury. He was sent to the hospital immediately and missed the end of the show.
Julianne Hough was rushed to the hospital after the Season 7 results show on October 21, 2008 with increasingly severe stomach pains. She was released the same night after it was determined that it was "just a bad stomach ache". However, she was ordered to sit out the group hip-hop dance rehearsals the next day as a precaution. However, on the October 27 performance show, Hough announced that she had been diagnosed with Appendicitis and would be having surgery on October 28 to have her appendix removed. Hough's dance partner Cody Linley remained in the competition, and teamed with Edyta Sliwinska, who had been paired with comedian Jeffrey Ross. Sliwinska and Ross had been eliminated in the season's first elimination. It was announced that this pairing was indefinite, and would last as long as Hough needed to recover. It was announced on the November 11, 2008 results show that Julianne was returning the next week and returned to dance on that show with Derek in the fan-created "Stars of Dance".
In Season 8, after landing on a wireless microphone pack and injuring his back during a dress rehearsal, Steve-O and his partner, Lacey Schwimmer, were unable to perform live. The judges critiqued their pre-recorded dress rehearsal performance. Melissa Rycroft suffered a rib cage injury also during a rehearsal and was judged based upon her pre-recorded dress rehearsal. Prior to her Group Mambo, professional Lacey Schwimmer filled in for her dancing with Tony Dovolani.
In season 10, Evan Lysacek broke two of his toes during rehearsal. The injury was not bad enough to affect his ability to dance and he remained in the competition. He also had a mild concussion after falling on his head while doing a lift with his partner, Anna Trebunskaya, but he remained in the competition.
100th episode celebration
The show celebrated its 100th episode on Tuesday, May 6, 2008, during Week 8 of Season 6. More than 30 former cast members and pros returned, with interviews with Stacy Keibler, Lisa Rinna, Jerry Springer, Vivica A. Fox, Joey Fatone, Kenny Mayne, Sabrina Bryan, and former winners Kelly Monaco, Drew Lachey, and Apolo Anton Ohno. Other appearances, besides the Season 6 cast, included Jane Seymour, Ian Ziering, Mark Cuban, Wayne Newton, Leeza Gibbons, Harry Hamlin, Shandi Finnessey, Paula Abdul and Helio Castroneves. New routines were performed by Apolo Anton Ohno and Julianne Hough, Mel B. and Maksim Chmerkovskiy, and by Mario Lopez with the cast of A Chorus Line, in which he was starring on Broadway. The musical guest was country group Rascal Flatts.
Judges' Top 10 dances
The Judges also presented a countdown of their choices for the top 10 perfect-scoring dances of the first five seasons. Their choices were:
No. Celebrity Professional Season Week Dance Place
1 Mario Lopez Karina Smirnoff 3 9 Tango 2nd
2 Mel B Maksim Chmerkovskiy 5 7 Paso Doble 2nd
3 Stacy Keibler Tony Dovolani 2 8 Samba 3rd
4 Drew Lachey Cheryl Burke 2 8 Freestyle 1st
5 Helio Castroneves Julianne Hough 5 8 Quickstep 1st
6 Joey Fatone Kym Johnson 4 7 Jive 2nd
7 Apolo Anton Ohno Julianne Hough 4 9 Quickstep 1st
8 Emmitt Smith Cheryl Burke 3 9 Cha-Cha-Cha 1st
9 Sabrina Bryan Mark Ballas 5 4 Paso Doble 7th
10 Kelly Monaco Alec Mazo 1 6 Freestyle 1st
[edit]200th Show Celebration
In Season 11, viewers were allowed 2 votes per day on DWTS' website to vote for their favorite out of 30 given choices. On October 25, 2010, a countdown of the Top 10 voted for dances on the show was reported to celebrate the following week when the 200th show would be.
No. Celebrity Professional Season Week Dance Place
1 Drew Lachey Cheryl Burke 2 8 Freestyle 1st
2 Gilles Marini Cheryl Burke 8 4 Argentine Tango 2nd
3 Apolo Anton Ohno Julianne Hough 4 5 Samba 1st
4 Nicole Scherzinger Derek Hough 10 8 Paso Doble 1st
5 Mel B Maksim Chmerkovskiy 5 7 Paso Doble 2nd
6 Joanna Krupa Derek Hough 9 8 Paso Doble 4th
7 Apolo Anton Ohno Julianne Hough 4 10 Freestyle 1st
8 Helio Castroneves Julianne Hough 5 8 Quickstep 1st
9 Donny Osmond Kym Johnson 9 10 Argentine Tango 1st
10 Shawn Johnson Mark Ballas 8 11 Freestyle 1st
On the actual 200th show, several dances will be performed again on the show and six of the past fan favorites will back to dance and judge; Helio Castroneves, Apolo Anton Ohno, Kristi Yamaguchi, Emmitt Smith, Drew Lachey, Kelly Osbourne, Gilles Marini, Mel B, and more. On the results show of November 2nd, awards were given out to past celebrity contestants, professionals and judges.
Category Winner
Most Dramatic Moment Marie Osmond
Best, Worst Dancer Kenny Mayne
Biggest Dancer Transformation Louis van Amstel
Best Judges' Moments Bruno Tonioli
Cardio dance DVDs
A DVD titled Dancing With The Stars: Cardio Dance was released on April 3, 2007 featuring Kym Johnson, Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Ashly DelGrosso. The program contains cardiovascular workouts adapted from Cha-cha, paso doble, samba, and jive dance routines.
A second DVD Dancing with the Stars: Latin Cardio Dance was released on September 13, 2008 featuring Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Cheryl Burke. The program contains cardiovascular workouts adapted from Cha-cha, Merengue, Samba and Mambo dance routines.
A third and fourth DVD was released featuring Kym Johnson, Dmitry Chaplin, and Lacey Schwimmer. One DVD is called "Dance off the Pounds" and features three dances: the jive, the quickstep, and swing. The other is "Dance Body Tone" and features a Latin dance mix, the tango, and freestyle dance mix.
Julianne Hough, two time DWTS winner, has also released her own workout DVD called "Dance with Julianne: Cardio Ballroom". It includes the Paso Doble, the Cha-Cha, and the Jive. It was released on December 15, 2009.
Companion book
A companion book written by Guy Phillips was released in the early fall of 2007 entitled, Dancing with the Stars: Jive, Samba and Tango Your Way Into The Best Shape Of Your Life. The book has behind the scenes photos and stories from the show as well as fitness routines modeled by Alec Mazo and Edyta Sliwinska. The book also features many promotional images from the first four seasons and the tour as well as original costume designs, lists of performed songs during a dance, and a complete list of every song and dance routine performed since the first season of the show.
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