Dancing with the Stars is a reality show airing on ABC in the United States. The show is based on the United Kingdom BBC Television series Strictly Come Dancing and is part of BBC Worldwide's international Dancing with the Stars franchise.
The show is currently hosted by Emmy Award-winning game show host and television personality, Tom Bergeron alongside Lisa Canning for the first season, before former E! reporter, Samantha Harris took over the role as co-hostess in 2006. The show debuted in a short run from June to July 2005, then returned the following January and February. Beginning in the fall of 2006, ABC has scheduled the show to air two seasons per year, one running from September to November and the other from March to May. The show's ninth season premiered on September 21, 2009 at 8 pm.
Some ABC affiliates have their own local versions of Dancing with the Stars . WEWS-TV in Cleveland, for example, did its own Cleveland version of the show using Cleveland-based celebrities.
Seasons
Dances
The following are the dances performed by couples on Dancing with the Stars . In addition, each couple in the final round performs a dance of any style or combination of styles of their choosing, called "freestyle".
Note: Season 3 was the only season in which the person with the highest scoring freestyle did not win the competition.
Final Five
Perfect scores
Perfect thirties
Judges have awarded perfect 30 out of 30 to couples on the following occasions:
Perfect tens
Judges have awarded perfect 10 out of 10 to couples on the following occasions:
Perfect Sixties
Judges have awarded perfect 60 out of 60 to couples on the following occasions:
Perfect Nineties
Judges have awarded perfect 90 out of 90 to couples on the following occasions:
Kristi Yamaguchi - Thus far, is the only star dancer to receive 90/90. This occurred during the finals of Season 6, with her professional partner Mark Ballas. The dances they performed were the Cha-Cha-Cha face off, Freestyle and Jive.
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.
General information
Payment
In an article titled 'What Season 7's "DWTS" Stars Made' TheWrap provided payments for 4 stars "Based on estimates of a top TV agent." These were the top three and the first eliminated celebrities. All received a base of $200,000. The winner got an additional $100,000. Second and third received additional payments of $50,000 and $25,000 respectively.
Withdrawals
Season 2
Lil' Romeo and Master P
Lil' Romeo was the first person to withdraw, in Season 2. His father, Master P took his place in the competition, being partnered with Ashly DelGrosso.
Season 3
Sara Evans
Sara Evans in the third season was the second celebrity to withdraw from the competition, while in progress. She cited her divorce as the reason for leaving the competition. As a result, her professional partner, Tony Dovolani also became the first professional dancer to withdraw from the competition.
Season 4
Vincent Pastore and John Ratzenberger
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.
Season 7
Misty May-Treanor
Misty May-Treanor was forced to withdraw from Season 7 after tearing her Achilles tendon during rehearsals. The injury required surgery. Her partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy became the second professional to withdraw from the competition.
Season 8
Season 8 was over before it even began for singer Jewel and Access Hollywood host Nancy O'Dell. Both were forced to pull out of competition prior to the premiere due to injury.
Jewel and Holly Madison
Jewel suffered from a fractured tibia in both legs. She was replaced with former The Girls Next Door star, and ex-girlfriend of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, Holly Madison.
Nancy O'Dell and Melissa Rycroft
O'Dell suffered from a torn meniscus that required surgery. She was replaced with The Bachelor finalist Melissa Rycroft.
Season 9
Tom DeLay
Tom DeLay 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. This made Cheryl Burke the third professional to withdraw from competition. He was declared safe before he announced his withdrawal during the Oct. 6, 2009 results show, and another celebrity, Debi Mazar, was still eliminated that night despite DeLay's departure.
Celebrity injuries
Season 2
Stacy Keibler fell during rehearsals and hurt her foot. This did not affect her performances.
Season 5
Marie Osmond
On Season 5, Marie Osmond fainted on Week 5 after her performance. The show immediately went to commercial break. She received a 21/30.
Jane Seymour
On Week 6, Jane Seymour was also absent on the results show due to food poisoning.
Season 6
Kristi Yamaguchi
On Season 6, Kristi Yamaguchi injured her ankle on Week 4. This did not affect her performance or attendance.
Cristián de la Fuente
On Monday April 28, 2008 (Week 7), 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.
Season 7
Kim Kardashian
On August 24, 2008 (the day before she was named as a celebrity contestant), Kim Kardashian fell on a piece of a broken mirror in her hotel room. Doctors told her she could still dance in season 7. She and Mark Ballas were eliminated in 11th place.
Jeffrey Ross
On September 22, 2008, while rehearsing for that night's performance, Jeffrey Ross suffered a scratched cornea in his left eye. He wore a rhinestone-studded eye patch in jest of the injury.
Misty May-Treanor
On October 4, 2008, Misty May-Treanor had ruptured her Achilles tendon during rehearsal and was forced to withdraw from the competition, requiring surgery for her injury.
Susan Lucci
In October 2008, Susan Lucci had sprained her ankle while rehearsing for that night's performance. She explained that she slides underneath partner Tony Dovolani's legs in the routine, and she "didn't put her butt down in time" and rolled her ankle, thus spraining it. She still performed that night, her ankle wrapped. It was later announced that she had actually fractured two bones in her right foot.
Brooke Burke
On October 19, 2008, Brooke Burke was taken to the hospital after injuring her foot. She was performing the jitterbug with partner Derek Hough for camera blocking when she lan
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