Ashly DelGrosso

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Ashly Costa
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Born
Ashly DelGrosso

(1982-07-09) July 9, 1982 (age 43)
OccupationProfessional dancer
Children5

Ashly DelGrosso-Costa (born July 9, 1982), known professionally as Ashly Costa, is a professional dancer from Highland, Utah who starred on the ABC television series Dancing with the Stars for the first three seasons and returned March 22, 2010 for season 10.

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Early life

DelGrosso was born in Denver, Colorado. A self-described "Utah County Mormon", she was introduced to dance by her mother, Kim, who co-owns a dance studio with Alex and Robin Murillo 'Center Stage Performing Arts Studio" in Orem, Utah where DelGrosso has worked as an instructor for six years. [1]

DelGrosso is the fourth of eight children. She has two older brothers, one older sister, and four younger sisters. [2] Her five sisters are also dancers. She performed with her sisters, Averie Michelle, Afton Skye, Autumn, Amber and Abrea Danielle, as a troupe in a third season results show the week after DelGrosso and partner Harry Hamlin were eliminated. Afton competed on the eighth season of Dancing with the Stars in a pro dancer competition to win a spot as a professional in the show's ninth season, but did not make past the third week of competition (four weeks in total).

Career

With Jonathan Gulledge, amateur dance partner, DelGrosso has won several Amateur Ten Dance titles.

She partnered professionally with Rick Robinson- her coach from the age of eleven, on the professional Latin circuit before retiring shortly before Dancing with the Stars . [3] [4]

In 2006, DelGrosso guest starred on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody as Lori, one of the character's dance partners. She is part of a DVD titled Dancing With The Stars: Cardio Dance along with Kym Johnson and Maksim Chmerkovskiy.

Personal life

A bio on ABC's website during Season 1 of Dancing with the Stars stated that DelGrosso's height is 5'3".

On October 21, 2006, DelGrosso married Mike Costa, a field producer for Dancing with the Stars. [5]

On February 20, 2007, DelGrosso announced that she and her husband were expecting their first child. As a result, she would not be able to perform on the fourth season of Dancing with the Stars. [6] On July 27, 2007, DelGrosso gave birth to a son. [7] On July 24, 2009, DelGrosso gave birth to son Enoch Daniel at 6:11 pm. [8] In November 2011, DelGrosso gave birth to a daughter. [9] On December 20, 2014, DelGrosso gave birth to son Samuel. On June 22, 2023, DelGrosso gave birth to daughter Emma.

Ashly comes from the same dance studio as Jaymz Tuaileva, Julianne Hough, Derek Hough, Chelsie Hightower, and Jared Murillo.

Dancing accolades

Track record on Dancing with the Stars

Celebrity partners

SeasonPartnerPlaceAverage
Score
1 Joey McIntyre 3rd21.3
2 Master P 7th12.5
3 Harry Hamlin 9th20.0
10 Buzz Aldrin 10th13.0

Performances

With celebrity partner Joey McIntyre: 21.3

Week #Dance/SongJudges' scoreTotalResult
InabaGoodmanTonioli
1Cha-cha-cha/"Crazy in Love"77620N/A
2Quickstep/"You're the One That I Want"87621Safe
3Jive/"I'm Still Standing"77822Bottom 2
4Samba/"Tequila"
Group Viennese Waltz/ "I Got You Babe"
7
No
6
Scores
7
Given
20Safe
5Foxtrot/"Big Spender"
Paso Doble/"Eye of the Tiger"
8
9
6
8
6
8
20
25
Third Place

With celebrity partner Master P: 12.5

Week #Dance/SongJudges' scoreTotalResult
InabaGoodmanTonioli
1Cha-cha-cha/"I Want You Back"44412Safe
2Quickstep/"Zoot Suit Riot"65516Bottom 2
3Jive/"Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting"64414Safe
4Paso Doble/"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"4228Eliminated

With celebrity partner Harry Hamlin: 20.0

Week #Dance/SongJudges' scoreTotalResult
InabaGoodmanTonioli
1Cha-cha-cha/"Disco Inferno"56617Safe
2Quickstep/"Lust for Life"77721Safe
3Tango/"Santa Maria"78722Eliminated

With celebrity partner Buzz Aldrin: 13.0

Week #Dance/SongJudges' scoreTotalResult
InabaGoodmanTonioli
1Cha-cha-cha/"Cupid"54514N/A
2Foxtrot/"Fly Me to the Moon"44412Safe
3Waltz/"What a Wonderful World"54413Eliminated

References

  1. "Odd couple dances into Utah 'hood for fast tour". Deseret News . Archived from the original on 13 February 2006. Retrieved 2006-01-25.
  2. "My Bio". Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2009-12-02.
  3. "Dancing With The Stars - Home - ABC.com". ABC.com. Retrieved 2009-04-21.
  4. "Utah woman is 'Dancing with the Stars'". newsnet.byu.edu. Archived from the original on 23 July 2005. Retrieved 2005-06-29.
  5. "My Wedding Story..." ashlydelgrosso.com. Archived from the original on 6 December 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-01.
  6. "Dancing with the Stars' veteran Ashly DelGrosso expecting first child". RealityTVWorld. 2007-02-21. Retrieved 2019-10-21.
  7. "DWTS' Ashly DelGrosso Costa welcomes a son". People. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
  8. "Ashly Costa Welcomes Son Enoch Daniel". People. August 1, 2009. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  9. The Costa Family (November 2, 2015). "HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY NAOMI!". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-18. Retrieved October 21, 2019.