Dancing with the Stars (New Zealand TV series)

Dancing with the Stars
Format	Entertainment
Created by	BBC Granada
Starring	Hosts: Jason Gunn Candy Lane Musical director: Carl Doy
Country of origin	New Zealand
No. of episodes	24 (As of May 29, 2007)
Production
Running time	approx 90 to 120 minutes per episode (including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	TVNZ
Picture format	16:9
Original run	2005 – present
External links
Official website

Dancing with the Stars is a New Zealand television series based on the British series Strictly Come Dancing. The show introduces eight local "celebrities" paired with professional ballroom dancers who each week compete against each other in a competition to impress a panel of judges and the viewing public in order to survive potential elimination. Through a telephone poll, viewers vote for who should stay. 50% of the public votes and the average score given by the panel of judges goes towards deciding who should go. Proceeds from the voting will go to the celebrity contestant's charity of choice. Dancing with the Stars has been popular with the New Zealand public. The 2005 season, which was the highest rated timeslot programme, averaged 730,000 people per episode, while season two had an average of 804,000 and up to a million tuned into each of the season finales.^[1][2] The third season started in 2007 with 735,000 viewers, the highest of all previous season debuts.^[3] All music is performed live by the "Dancing with the Stars band", led by musical director Carl Doy.

Contents 1 Judges 2 List of dances 3 Season one 3.1 Scorecard 4 Season two 4.1 Scorecard 5 Season three 5.1 Scorecard 6 Overall scores 7 References 8 See also 9 External links

Judges

Current:

• Alison Leonard (2005-present)
• Brendan Cole (2005-present)
• Carol-Ann Hickmore (2006-present)
• Craig Revel Horwood (2007-present)

Former:

• Donna Dawson (2005)
• Paul Mercurio (2005-2006)
• In season two, Carol-Ann Hickmore, who partnered Norm Hewitt in season one, replaced Donna Dawson who had relocated to Australia.
• In season three, Craig Revel-Horwood, a judge on Britain's Strictly Come Dancing, replaced Paul Mercurio who left the show to concentrate more on the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars.

List of dances

The following are a list of dances that contestants and their partners have performed in an episode:

Ballroom Dances	Latin Dances
Foxtrot Quickstep Tango Waltz Viennese Waltz Swing Waltz	Cha-cha-cha Jive Paso Doble Rumba Samba

Season one

Season one premiered in April 29, 2005. The viewership hit around 730,000 and up to a million tuned in to the final episode of season one.^[2] It was eventually won by Norm Hewitt and his partner Carol-Ann Hickmore who won with 62.42% of the public vote with Shane coming second with 37.58%.^[4] In the semi-finals it was even closer with Norm Hewitt winning 42.81% and Shane winning 36.71% of the public vote.^[4] According to a TVNZ spokeswoman, 317,698 votes were cast for the final, of which 83,000 were 0900 calls, and the rest text messages.^[5] Season one of Dancing with the Stars earned charities a combined total of more than $444,000, according to TVNZ.^[6]

Celebrity	Occupation	Professional partner	Placing
Norm Hewitt	Rugby union player	Carol-Ann Hickmore	Winners
Shane Cortese	Shortland Street actor	Nerida Lister	Runners-up June 20
Tim Shadbolt	Mayor of Invercargill	Rebecca Nicholson	Eliminated 6th June 13
Bernice Mene	Netballer	d'Artagnan Kennedy	Eliminated 5th June 6
Theresa Healey	Shortland Street actress	Peter Wales	Eliminated 4th May 30
Georgina Beyer	Transexual Labour politician	Michael Hoggard	Eliminated 3rd May 23
Ewen Gilmore	Comedian	Lauren de Boeck	Eliminated 2nd May 16
Nicky Watson	Model and radio host	Kiel de Buisson	Eliminated 1st May 6

Scorecard

EP = Episode, E = Eliminated, B2 = Bottom 2

Couple	EP 1	EP 2	EP 3	EP 4	EP 5	EP 6	EP 7	EP 8
Hewitt/Hickmore	28	32	24	40	29	31,35	34,30	37,39,39
Cortese/Lister	22	32	29	31	29	28,37	33,35	37,39,38
Shadbolt/Nicholson	23	25	21	19 B2	20 B2	14,23 B2	23,19 E
Mene/Kennedy	19	27	25	23	24	29,30 E
Healey/Wales	29	25	28	31	27 E
Beyer/Hoggard	19	25	25 B2	22 E
Gilmore/de Boeck	18	25 B2	17 E
Watson/de Buisson	26	22 E

Season two

Season two premiered on May 7, 2006. Season two had an average of 804,000 people watching, more than the first season, and up to a million tuned into the finale.^[1] Rebecca Nicholson who partnered Tim Shadbolt from season one was the only original dancer to appear again this season, and partnered Shortland Street actor David Wikaira-Paul. One of the most memorable moments in season two was celebrity Rodney Hide and his partner Krystal Stuart who not only gained all one's from the judges, during his Cha-cha-cha, but also dropped her, during the end of the performance.^[7] On June 25, Lorraine Downes and her partner Aaron Gilmore took the title of Dancing with the Stars, who ended up winning $111,961.63 for her charity, of the total $333,655, raised for all charities over the season.^[8] According to a TVNZ media release, Lorraine Downes won the votes from the public by a slim 0.1%, winning 50.05%, to Faumuina's 49.95%.^[8]

Celebrity	Occupation	Professional partner	Placing
Lorraine Downes	Miss Universe 1983	Aaron Gilmore	Winners
Beatrice Faumuina	Discus thrower	Brian Jones	Runners-up June 25
Danyon Loader	Olympic gold-medalist swimmer	Hayley Holt	Eliminated 6th June 18
Rodney Hide	ACT politician	Krystal Stuart	Eliminated 5th June 11
Angela Bloomfield	Shortland Street actress	Jonny Williams	Eliminated 4th June 4
David Wikaira-Paul	Shortland Street actor	Rebecca Nicholson	Eliminated 3rd May 28
Steve Gurney	Coast to Coast winner	Sharan Phillips	Eliminated 2nd May 21
Christine Rankin	Former C.E.O. of Work and Income NZ	David Yeates	Eliminated 1st May 14

Scorecard

EP = Episode, E = Eliminated, B2 = Bottom 2

Couple	EP 1	EP 2	EP 3	EP 4	EP 5	EP 6	EP 7	EP 8
Downes/Gilmore	28	24	36	32	32,32	32,37	30,37	37,38,40
Faumuina/Jones	32	26	32	34	29,30	29,36	32,31	32,36,37
Loader/Holt	24	33	27	25	27,31	35,36 B2	29,35 E
Hide/Stuart	23	19	24 B2	13 B2	16,26 B2	15,4 E
Bloomfield/Williams	26	25 B2	28	26	25,27 E
Wikara-Paul/Nicholson	31	25	36	26 E
Gurney/Phillips	24	29	23 E
Rankin/Yeates	24	27 E

Season three

Season three premiered on April 10, 2007, with both Gunn and Lane coming back to host. All judges were back with the exception of Paul Mercurio who wanted to focus more on the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars. In season three, it opened with 735,000 people watching, the highest out of all series' debuts.^[3] On May 29, 2007, Suzanne Paul and her partner Stefano Olivieri took the title of Dancing with the Stars.

Celebrity	Occupation	Professional partner	Placing
Suzanne Paul	TV personality	Stefano Olivieri	Winners
Megan Alatini	NZ Idol judge	Jonny Williams	Runners-up May 29
Brendon Pongia	Presenter/former Tall Black	Hayley Holt	Eliminated 6th May 22
Greer Robson	Shortland Street actress	Aaron Gilmore	Eliminated 5th May 15
Paul Holmes	Broadcaster	Rebecca Nicholson	Eliminated 4th May 8
Frank Bunce	Rugby union player	Krystal Stuart	Eliminated 3rd May 1
Michael Laws	Mayor of Wanganui	Lauren de Boeck	Eliminated 2nd April 24
April Ieremia	Former TV One newsreader and netballer	Csaba Szirmai	Eliminated 1st April 17

Scorecard

EP = Episode, E = Eliminated, B2 = Bottom 2

Couple	EP 1	EP 2	EP 3	EP 4	EP 5	EP 6	EP 7	EP 8
Paul/Olivieri	30	35	32	29	29,31	25,36 B2	25,32	31,36,39
Alatini/Williams	32	36	30	30 B2	31,32	32,34	32,38	32,37,36
Pongia/Holt	30	28	24	30	21,26 B2	28,38	30,26 E
Robson/Gilmore	23	33	19	35	29,27	26,28 E
Holmes/Nicholson	27	22	15	23	16,18 E
Bunce/Stuart	23	33	27 B2	16 E
Laws/de Boeck	17	19 B2	9 E
Ieremia/Szirmai	23	21 E

Overall scores

References

See also

• Dancing with the Stars

External links

• Official site
• New Zealand Reality TV site & episode recaps