Dancing with the Stars

Dancing with the Stars

-American reality show airing on ABC in the US and CTV in Canada in 2011.
-American version of, once again, a British show. This is the American version of British show Strictly Come Dancing.
-Basically the premise of the show is a panel of judges rate dancers. The dancers are usually a celebrity of some sort with another celebrity of some sort doing some kind of dancing. Past competitors include Olympic athletes, supermodels, actors, singers, astronauts, teen heartthrobs.
-Each pair performs a dance and they vie for high votes from the audience and the judges.
-Each pair that gets a low score is removed until there is one pair.



Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino and Karina Smirnoff

Judges
-Lenn Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli have been the 3 main judges. And also some contestants have appeared as judges, such as Kelly Osbourne, Gilles Marini, Mel B., Kristy Yamaguchi, Apolo Ohno, Helio Castroneves

Couples

Tia Carrere and Maksim Chmerkovskiy

Harry Hamlin and Ashly DelGrosso

Vivica A. Fox and Nick Kosovich

Helio Castroneves and Julianne Hough

Kristy Yamaguchi and Mark Ballas

Rocco DiSpirito and Karina Smirnoff

Mark Dacascos and Lacey Schwimmer

Kelly Osbourne and Louis van Amstel

Ralph Macchio and Karina Smirnoff