The fourth season of the Australian 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...

 TV series premiered on Tuesday 21 February 2006 and concluded on Tuesday 9 May 2006. It featured the following celebrities.

Celebrity	Occupation	Professional partner	Status
Ian "Molly" Meldrum	Music reporter and personality	Alana Patience	Eliminated 1st on 28 February 2006
Luke Ricketson Luke Ricketson Luke Ricketson is an Australian retired professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. An Australian and Ireland international, and New South Wales State of Origin representative back-rower, he played his entire club football career for the Sydney Roosters of the NRL...	Former NRL player	Eliza Campagna	Eliminated 2nd on 7 March 2006
Alicia Molik Alicia Molik Alicia Molik is a Australian professional female tennis player. She reached a career high singles rank of number 8 and also won a bronze medal for Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Molik also reached a career high doubles ranking of number 6, and won two grand slam doubles titles, at the...	Tennis player	John Paul Collins	Eliminated 3rd on 14 March 2006
Simone Callahan	Ex-wife of cricketer Shane Warne Shane Warne Shane Keith Warne is a former Australian international cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the game. In 2000, he was selected by a panel of cricket experts as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century, the only specialist bowler selected in the quintet...	Gordon Derbogosijan	Eliminated 4th on 28 March 2006
Jennifer Hawkins Jennifer Hawkins Jennifer Hawkins is an Australian beauty queen, model and television presenter best known as Miss Universe 2004 and the face of Australian department store Myer.-Early life:...	Miss Universe 2004 Miss Universe 2004 Miss Universe 2004, the 53rd Miss Universe pageant, was held in Centro de Convenciones CEMEXPO, Quito, Ecuador on June 1, 2004. It was won by Jennifer Hawkins of Australia....	Sergei Bolgarschii	Eliminated 5th on 4 April 2006
Kate Langbroek Kate Langbroek Katherine Elizabeth Wilhelmina Beuving Langbroek is an Australian television and radio personality of Jamaican, Jewish and Dutch heritage...	Nova 100 Nova 100 Nova 100 is a commercial radio station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, broadcasting on 100.3 MHz. It is in the Melbourne radio market, with the intention of challenging the number one FM Austereo station Fox FM by playing alternative, hip hop, pop & dance music, with a strong lean towards...  radio presenter	Alexander Bryan	Eliminated 6th on 18 April 2006
Noeline Brown Noeline Brown Noeline Brown is an Australian actor and comedian. She has appeared in many films, television shows, plays and radio programs....	Television personality	Carmello Pizzino	Eliminated 7th on 25 April 2006
Toby Allen	Human Nature Human Nature (band) Human Nature are an Australian pop vocal group. The group was originally formed as a doo-wop band in 1989 while the current members were at school together in Sydney. So far, the band has had 17 Top 40 hits and five Top 10 hits in Australia since 1996 when their first album Telling Everybody was...  singer	Leanne Bampton	Eliminated 8th on 2 May 2006
Kostya Tszyu	Boxer	Luda Kroitor Luda Kroitor Luda Kroitor is the reigning five time world Salsa champion. She is popularly known for her role as dance instructor on Dancing with the Stars and is currently partnered with Home and Away actor Dan Ewing...	Runner Up on 9 May 2006
Grant Denyer Grant Denyer Grant Denyer is an Australian television reporter, personality and motor racing driver.-Television career:In 1997, Denyer began his career in the media, he gained a position at Prime Television in Wagga Wagga as a news reporter and journalist...	Sunrise Sunrise (TV program) Sunrise is an Australian breakfast television program, broadcast on the Seven Network. On weekdays the programme follows Seven Early News, and runs from 6am through to 9am.-History:...  weatherman	Amanda Garner Amanda Garner Amanda Garner is a professional ballroom dancer from Australia. She is best known for her appearances on two seasons of the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars, partnering Grant Denyer to victory in the fourth season...	Winner on 9 May 2006

Grant Denyer and his partner Amanda Garner won the series, defeating Kostya Tszyu and his partner.

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	9	10
Grant & Amanda	1st	25	29	54	33	28	25	29	39	34+37=71	39+40=79	40+39+40=119
Kostya & Luda	2nd	26	27	53	24	27	31	27	31	33+28=61	30+28=58	32+35+34=101
Toby & Leanne	3rd	32	32	64	36	31	32	34	35	34+31=65	35+37=72
Noeline & Carmello	4th	23	26	49	29	27	24	18	23	22+20=42
Kate & Alex	5th	19	25	44	23	25	18	24	17
Jennifer & Serghei	6th	25	31	56	27	28	29	24
Simone & Gordon	7th	14	24	38	17	13	19
Alicia & John Paul	8th	23	20	43	24	21
Luke & Eliza	9th	19	28	47	20
Molly & Alana	10th	16	22	38

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 : 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...
  
   or 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....
  
  
• Week 4 : Foxtrot or Paso Doble
• 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 or Latin dance from weeks 1–5
• Week 7 : One unlearned Ballroom or Latin dance from weeks 1–6
• Week 8 : Two unlearned Ballroom or Latin dances from weeks 1–7
• Week 9 : Final unlearned Ballroom or Latin dance from weeks 1–8 & Group American Smooth
• Week 10 : Two Favourite Dances of the Season & Freestyle

• When couples made it to Week 6, they would eventually have to perform a Viennese Waltz.

Dance Chart

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8		9		10
Grant & Amanda	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot	Samba	Waltz	Paso Doble	Tango	Viennese Waltz	Rumba	American Smooth	Paso Doble		Freestyle
Kostya & Luda	Waltz	Rumba	Tango	Paso Doble	Samba	Quickstep	Foxtrot	Viennese Waltz	Jive	Cha-Cha-Cha	American Smooth			Freestyle
Toby & Leanne	Waltz	Rumba	Tango	Paso Doble	Samba	Cha-Cha-Cha	Viennese Waltz	Jive	Foxtrot	Quickstep	American Smooth
Noeline & Carmello	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot	Samba	Rumba	Tango	Waltz	Paso Doble
Kate & Alex	Waltz	Rumba	Tango	Paso Doble	Samba	Viennese Waltz	Jive
Jennifer & Serghei	Waltz	Rumba	Tango	Paso Doble	Samba	Jive
Simone & Gordon	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot	Samba
Alicia & John Paul	Waltz	Rumba	Tango	Paso Doble
Luke & Eliza	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive
Molly & Alana	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep

Highest Scoring Dance

Lowest Scoring Dance