This season Aotearoa finally has its first same-sex couple with comedian Eli Matthewson dancing with Jonny Williams.
Camilla tears up, and I’m right there with her. Think of us as your eyes and ears. They will need to have a lie down after this. There is apparently a complicated Anzac story to the dance, Lance loved it. Dancing With the Stars is truly back! Camilla wanted him to “let go”. Lance says he feels insecure about Alex’s chest. They are extremely, extremely excited. Judge Camilla agrees with me, calling him: “energetic”. Elektra Shock out of drag as James Luck makes an awkward joke about Rhys wanting to climb on Phoebe, and he awkwardly says he’s married, and then they all awkwardly joke about Rhys crapping his pants. I have a feeling we will see more of this chest. He has three sisters with rhyming names. James says he expected more strength. Everyone is gushing everywhere.
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.
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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.
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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.”
Comedian Rhys Mathewson was up first with some hidden tap skills up his sleeve, as he took on the jive with dance partner Phoebe Robb. It was adorable, ...
Then, after being forced apart for three years, we came back into the relationship and saw all the things we had missed. "He's going to win it," were the words that escaped my mouth within the first 10 seconds of comedian Eli Matthewson and Jonny Williams' performance. Boxer and motivational speaker David Letele charmed the pants off the nation with his humble demeanour, words and cheeky smile. She is sure to get buy-in from a younger audience and anyone with a TikTok account. Reality television star Alex Vaz and Brittany Coleman brought the beauty, and Vaz brought some uncharacteristic honesty and vulnerability. The wardrobe, pyrotechnics and set have all had what appeared to be a significant financial injection, lessons we can only hope were learned from The Masked Singer's lack thereof.