Dancing with the stars

2022 - 4 - 24

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DWTS elimination: A kiss, a spell and a millionaire-maker goes home (New Zealand Herald)

Our first celeb has been eliminated from the ballroom and was done wrong by the public.

I was shocked, the public was shocked and this was more of a reality TV stitch-up than I could have ever imagined. Gray, who was dancing for ADHD New Zealand, was visibly emotional and Casey shared her sentiments, while other contestants hugged the Lotto presenter and her family cried in the stands. Then the moment was here, the bottom two, as voted by a combo of the public and judges voting were Gray and Vaz, but it was TVNZ presenter and Lotto legend Gray who went home. Kerre Woodham and Murray had a cheeky "kiss" and overall we loved it. It was a beautiful moment and we were rooting for him the whole way. Kane and dance partner Enrique Johns took the stage in sparkles, stars, mohawks and oodles of glitter.

DWTS Recap: First couple sent home from Dancing with the Stars ... (Stuff.co.nz)

There's already been grumbling online that podcaster Brodie Kane and former Olympian Eric Murray are at a disadvantage dancing tonight with less voting time ...

Think of us as your eyes and ears. There’s a frankly enormous amount of thrusting and Eli has blessed us with another great joke that will sail beautifully over the heads of the straights in the audience. Rhys is really the highlight of the dance for me, he spins an awful lot. David is just so likeable, particularly with the way he can’t help but sing as he dances. By the end of the season will any of the boys be wearing anything? There is a lot of pointing. Brodie wants to be Baby “not in a corner, not holding a watermelon” and really that’s all we ever hope for in life is it not?” She’s sporting an incredible mohawk and begins her very enthusiastic jive from a strange egg chair. That was surely the most complicated dance of the season so far. Eric was so impressive with his speedy feet and all the lifting, and spinning, and I don’t know…It was all quite distracting, all that chest hair, that hint of a mullet… The pace of this show is frightening… Stunning. Sharyn Casey has spectacular Cruella vibes and is clearly having a (mirror) ball, setting the tone perfectly for the show ahead. Very tall Alex Vaz will be hoping his shirt was sheer enough to soak up the mum vote because he had the lowest score of the night with 15.

Dancing with the Stars, week one: We're back on the floor, baby (The Spinoff)

Sonia Gray and Aaron Gilmore dance a rumba (Photo: Three) · Alex Vaz and Brittany Coleman dancing the tango (Photo: Three) · Eric Murray and Loryn Reynolds doing ...

Seeing him perform with high energy, endless enthusiasm and a genuine glee at being in the room and in the competition is just some dang good TV! It’s why we watch it. There are a lot of contestants, you guys, this is all you’re going to get for some of them at the start. You know, if I had a choice in the matter. Jazz seems like a really good dancer and seems to have fun doing it. A jive to ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’ is always going to be a winner with me. Is he a joy to watch? Only one week in and rower Eric Murray ticked off my favourite Dancing with the Stars box: sweeping the floor with a lady! It’s the kind of charisma that I imagine comes to you karmically when you give away a lot of dollars twice a week on television for many years. A very well-danced rumba, I think, to a wildly anonymous arrangement of a great song. Read these rankings with that in mind (and on that note, I’ve excluded the chaotic team dances because it made this really confusing, but will comment where needed). Dancing with the Stars is back and I, for one, could not be happier. Three years since the last season and we’re finally able to see celebrities dance for charity again – and rank them accordingly.

Dancing With The Stars NZ Week One Results | Scoop News (Scoop.co.nz)

Monday 25th April , 2022 Week one of Dancing with the Stars NZ is complete and Sonia Gray was the first celebrity to have her Mirrorball Trophy dreams ...

Jazz Thornton danced the samba to Six60’s ‘Sundown’ scoring 30 on the leaderboard, followed by David Letele who danced the pasodoble to Six60’s ‘The Greatest’ to a total score of 26, Sonia Gray’s rumba to Kings’ ‘Help Me Out’ scored 26, and finally Eli Matthewson’s Viennese waltz to E Kore Rawa Wehe / Never Be Apart by Teeks scored 32 on the leaderboard. Week one of Dancing with the Stars NZ is complete and Sonia Gray was the first celebrity to have her Mirrorball Trophy dreams dashed. Head Judge Camilla Sacre-Dallerup added: “This was a shock elimination, Sonia had such great potential - I was getting excited about her journey on this show.

Watch: Jono, Ben and National leader Christopher Luxon prank ... (New Zealand Herald)

For the past year, The Hits Breakfast host Ben Boyce has been telling his co-host Jono Pryor he could be the stunt double of National Party leader ...

Jono and Ben's dance swap with Chris Luxon scored great points with the stars, who found it hilarious! Eric Murray called out the prank straight away, while Sonia Gray and Clinton Randall noticed something was not quite right and slowly put it together. - Jono and Ben's The Weak-End: Their take on the week's ...

Does Chris Luxon have a radio twin? Dancing With The Stars cast ... (Stuff.co.nz)

Could National Party leader Christopher Luxon and radio personality Jono Pryor be twins? Ben Boyce of The Hits Breakfast was so convinced co-host Pryor ...

Think of us as your eyes and ears. “The thing about the show is that it shows you a side of a person you haven’t seen before. At one point she said “Jono your voice has completely changed”, but seemed to accept Luxon’s explanation that it was because he had recovered from Covid. Pryor, she said, was “more cone”. Woodham was saying Luxon was clearly up for the challenge of competing in DWTS given he was “willing to take on the National Party in the state it was in” when suddenly Pryor appeared beside him. Sometimes many sides of a person you haven’t seen before.”