dancing with the stars

     

Dancing with the Stars is the name of a group of international television series base on the format of the British series Strictly Come Dancing. Not all the international versions share this title. The format is distributed by BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC. Australia was the first country to adapt the BBC show, and versions have also been produced in Brazil, Chile, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Panama, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine and the USA.

Trivia about dancing with the stars

  • In 2007 Marie Osmond blamed allergies & L.A. air quality for her waltz into unconsciousness on this show
  • After she was jilted by "The Bachelor", Melissa Rycroft waltzed her way into the finals on this show
  • Drew Lachey & his partner Cheryl scored a perfect 30 doing the tango on this TV show
  • Hefty "Sopranos" star Vincent Pastore quit this show in rehearsal, saying it was too physically demanding
  • Celebs can samba away with the money or fall flat on their face in front of host Tom Bergeron
  • It's a quickstep from "DWTS" to this full title
  • In 2005 the terpsichorean splendor of John O'Hurley repopularized a somewhat lost art on this TV show
  • Emmitt Smith won the third installment of this show with a samba