Season One, Late 2004

The Australian TV series Dancing with the Stars

Dancing with the Stars (Australian TV series)

Dancing with the Stars is a Logie Award-winning, Australian light entertainment reality show airing on the Seven Network and filmed live from the HSV-7 studios in Melbourne...

 premiered on Tuesday 5 October 2004 and concluded on Tuesday 23 November 2004. It featured the following celebrities.

Celebrity	Occupation	Professional partner	Status
James Tomkins	Olympic rower	Patrice Smith	Eliminated 1st on 12 October 2004
Gabrielle Richens Gabrielle Richens Gabrielle Richens is a British model and TV presenter. She was born in Kent of British, Indian and Chinese extraction although her parents are from South Africa. Richens has worked as a model since she was fifteen when she signed with the Elite modeling agency...	Model	Mark Hodge	Eliminated 2nd on 19 October 2004
Katrina Warren Katrina Warren Dr Katrina Warren is an Australian veterinarian, best known as the host of several popular television programs.- Background Information :...	Television vet	Csaba Szirmai	Eliminated 3rd on 26 October 2004
Matt Shirvington Matt Shirvington Matt Shirvington is an Australian athlete and television presenter who held the Australian 100m national sprint title from 1998 to 2002...	Olympic sprinter	Natalie Lowe	Eliminated 4th on 2 November 2004
John Wood John Wood (Australian actor) John Wood is a Gold Logie Award-winning Australian actor, best known for his role as Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon in the Seven Network's long running police drama Blue Heelers.-TV career:...	Blue Heelers Blue Heelers Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...  actor	Jenni Pederson	Eliminated 5th on 9 November 2004
Justin Melvey Justin Melvey Justin Melvey is an Australian actor who has appeared in a number of television series in Australia and the US.Melvey is best known to Australian audiences for his role as Harry Reynolds in the evening soap opera Home and Away from 1999 to 2001...	Former Days of our Lives Days of our Lives Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...  and Home and Away Home and Away Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...  actor	Kym Johnson Kym Johnson Kym Johnson is an Australian former professional ballroom dancer, model, and television celebrity. She lives in Sydney NSW, Australia but is currently based in America for Dancing with the Stars.-Dance biography:...	Third Place on 16 November 2004
Pauline Hanson Pauline Hanson Pauline Lee Hanson is an Australian politician and former leader of Pauline Hanson's One Nation, a political party with a populist and anti-multiculturalism platform...	Former politician	Salvatore Vecchio	Runner Up on 23 November 2004
Bec Cartwright	Home And Away Home and Away Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...  actress	Michael Miziner	Winner on 23 November 2004

Bec Hewitt

Bec Hewitt

Rebecca June "Bec" Hewitt is an Australian actress and singer. From 1998 to 2005, Hewitt played Hayley Smith Lawson on the soap opera Home and Away. As Bec Cartwright, Hewitt released an eponymous pop music album in 2002...

 (née Cartwright) and partner Michael Mizner won the series, beating Pauline Hanson

Pauline Hanson

Pauline Lee Hanson is an Australian politician and former leader of Pauline Hanson's One Nation, a political party with a populist and anti-multiculturalism platform...

 and her partner Salvatore Vecchio.

Scoring Chart

Red numbers indicate the couples with the lowest score for each week.

Green numbers indicate the couples with the highest score for each week.

indicates the couple (or couples) eliminated that week.

indicates the returning couple that finished in the bottom two.

indicates the couple withdrew from the competition.

indicates the winning couple.

indicates the runner-up couple.

indicates the third-place couple.

Couple	Place	1	2	1+2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Bec & Michael	1st	31	29	60	32	32	35	35+33=68	38+36=74	34+36+39=109
Pauline & Salvatore	2nd	29	32	61	30	34	36	37+39=76	40+39=79	38+37+36=111
Justin & Kym	3rd	22	25	47	24	26	24	27+25=52	26+30=56
John & Jenni	4th	26	28	54	27	29	29	WD
Matt & Natalie	5th	20	25	45	28	26	25
Katrina & Csaba	6th	24	21	45	19	22
Gabrielle & Mark	7th	18	20	38	18
James & Patrice	8th	16	15	31

Average Chart

The average chart is based on the dances performed by the celebrities and not their place in the competition.

Average Ranking	Competitive Finish	Couple	Number Of Dances	Total Score	Average
?	1	Bec & Michael	12	?	??
?	2	Pauline & Salvatore	12	?	??
?	3	Justin & Kym	9	?	??
?	4	John & Jenni	7	?	??
?	5	Matt & Natalie	5	?	??
?	6	Katrina & Csaba	4	?	??
?	7	Gabrielle & Mark	3	56	18.67
?	8	James & Patrice	2	31	15.5

Dance Schedule

The celebrities and professional partners will dance one of these routines for each corresponding week.

• Week 1 : Cha-Cha-Cha
  Cha-cha-cha (dance)
  The Cha-cha-cha is the name of a dance of Cuban origin.It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorrín in 1953...
  
   or Waltz
  Waltz
  The waltz is a ballroom and folk dance in time, performed primarily in closed position.- History :There are several references to a sliding or gliding dance,- a waltz, from the 16th century including the representations of the printer H.S. Beheim...
  
  
• Week 2 : Quickstep
  Quickstep
  The quickstep is a light-hearted member of the standard ballroom dances. The movement of the dance is fast and powerfully flowing and sprinkled with syncopations. The upbeat melodies that quickstep is danced to make it suitable for both formal and informal events...
  
   or Rumba
  Rumba
  Rumba is a family of percussive rhythms, song and dance that originated in Cuba as a combination of the musical traditions of Africans brought to Cuba as slaves and Spanish colonizers. The name derives from the Cuban Spanish word rumbo which means "party" or "spree". It is secular, with no...
  
  
• Week 3 : Tango
  Tango (ballroom)
  Ballroom Tango is a ballroom dance that branched away from its original Argentine roots by allowing European, American, Hollywood, and competitive influences into the style and execution of the dance....
  
   or Jive
  Jive (dance)
  In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1930s. It was originally presented to the public as 'Jive' in 1934 by Cab Calloway. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance...
  
  
• Week 4 : Paso Doble or Foxtrot
• Week 5 : Samba
  Samba
  Samba is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in Bahia and with its roots in Brazil and Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions. It is recognized around the world as a symbol of Brazil and the Brazilian Carnival...
  
  
• Week 6 : One unlearned Ballroom and Latin dances from weeks 1-5
• Week 7 : Final unlearned Ballroom and Latin dances from weeks 1-6 & Freestyle

Dance chart

Couple	1	2	3	4	5	6		7
Bec & Michaeal	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot	Samba	Waltz	Paso Doble		Tango	|Freestyle
Pauline & Salvatore	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot	Samba					Freestyle
Justin & Kym	Waltz	Rumba	Tango	Paso Doble	Samba	Quickstep	Cha-Cha-Cha
John & Jenni	Waltz	Rumba	Tango	Paso Doble	Samba
Matt & Natalie	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot	Samba
Katrina & Csaba	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot
Gabrielle & Mark	Waltz	Rumba	Tango
James & Patrice	Waltz	Rumba