Dancing with the Stars is a Greek

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 reality show airing on ANT1

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 and filmed live in Athens

Athens

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. The show is based on the United Kingdom BBC Television

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 series Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom and Latin dances. The title of the show suggests a continuation of the long-running series Come Dancing, with an allusion to the film Strictly Ballroom...

and is part of BBC Worldwide

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's Dancing with the Stars

Dancing with the Stars

Dancing with the Stars is the name of several international television series based on the format of the British TV series Strictly Come Dancing, which is distributed by BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the BBC. Currently the format has been licensed to over 35 countries...

franchise. The theme song is "It's personal" performed by Swedish indie pop

Indie pop

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 band The Radio Dept.

Season 1 (2010)

The first season premiered on 28 March 2010 on ANT1
The stars with their partners were:

1) Savvas Poubouras (Presenter, Radio Producer)-Emily Mattheakaki (Latin Champion in European Contest «Hellas Dance Festival" 2004) (6th place)

2) Stamatis Gardelis (Actor)-Efi Giannaraki (Greek Cup "International Latin Dances" 2010) (4th place)

3) Michalis Zabidis (World Kick Boxing Champion)-Anna Polyzou (Discrimination in the Greek Cup «American - International Latin" 2010) (5th place)

4) Dimitris Vlachos (Actor)-Maria Antimisari (In 2008 came third in International Latin Dancing) (7th place)

5) Errika Prezarakou (Champion in the pole vault, Creator of Replayce)-Thodoris Panagakos (Greek Champion in the category "International Latin Rising Star" 2008) (Winner)

6) Pigi Devetzi (Olympic champion in the triple jump Athens-Beijing)-Panagiotis Grammatikos (Champion Greece "Amateur Latin" 2007) (9th place)

7) Matthildi Magira (Show woman)-Richard Szilagyi (Champion Slovakia «Ten Dances" 2007 & Champion Greece category Latin American five dances 2010)(Runner-up)

8) Vicky Koulianou (Top Model-Designer Clothes)-Elias Boutsis (Greek Champion "Five Dance adults" 2006) (12th place)

9) Fotini Pipili

Fotini Pipili

Fotini Pipili is a Greek journalist and politician and member of the Greek Parliament for the New Democracy for the Athens A constituency.She was born in Athens and started her career as a journalist from the woman's magazine PANTHEON...

 (Journalist-MP SW-Secretary of New Democracy on Volunteering and Non-Governmental Organizations: MP for Athens and secretary of New Democracy on Volunteerism and non-governmental organizations)-Dimitris Kranias (Discrimination in World Festival "Rimini Open" Italy) (11th place)

10) Eugenia Manolidou (Musician-TV presenter)-Ilias Ladas (Dance sports series master in the U.S. (2009) 20th place in 2500 between dancers) (3rd place)

11) Patritsia Peristeri (Actress)-Alexandros Papadopoulos (Greek Champion in the category "One Dance") (8th place)

12) Kostas Sommer

Kostas Sommer

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(Actor)-Tzeni Nikolentzou (Champion Greece «International Latin Rising Stars" 2007 - 2008) (10th place)

Season 2 (2011)

The second season of the show started on March 20, 2011 and ended on June 12, 2011.

Season 3 (2012)

ANT1

ANT1

Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a television network airing in Greece and Cyprus. The alternate spelling is play on words in Greek; ena is the Greek number 1, thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna . It launched on 31 December 1989, the same year as rival Mega Channel, and is owned by...

has announced that the show has been renewed for a third season.

External links

• Official website of Dancing with the Stars Greece