Dancing with the Stars (South African TV series)

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Dancing with the Stars
Genre Reality competition
Based on Strictly Come Dancing
Presented byTracey Lange
Chris Jaftha
JudgesTebogo Kgobokoe
Bryan Watson
Debbie Turner
Jason Gilkison
Country of originSouth Africa
Original languagesEnglish
Afrikaans
isiZulu
No. of seasons1
Production
Production company Rapid Blue
Original release
Network M-Net
Release4 February 2018 (2018-02-04)

Dancing with the Stars SA is a South African dance competition television series that premiered on 4 February 2018 on M-Net. [1] The show is the South African version of the British reality TV competition Strictly Come Dancing and is based on the Dancing with the Stars franchise. The show is produced by Rapid Blue and co-hosted by Tracey Lange and Chris Jaftha.

Contents

The format of the show consists of 6 male and 6 female celebrities paired with a professional dancer. Each couple performs predetermined dances and competes against the others for judges' points and audience votes. The couple receiving the lowest combined total of judges' points and audience votes is eliminated each week until only the champion dance pair remains.

Cast

Hosts

Judges

Winner

Stars

Season One

Season One
CelebrityNotability (known for)Professional PartnerStatus
Ebenhaezer DibakwaneComedianNombulelo HlathiEliminated 1st
on 18 February 2018
Thembisa MdodaSister of Anele Mdoda, TV presenter & actressDevon SnellEliminated 2nd
on 25 February 2018
Odessa SwartsSprinter & mother of Wayde van Niekerk Dylon DanielsEliminated 3rd
on 4 March 2018
Thando MananaFormer Springbok playerMichelle OppenshawEliminated 4th
on 11 March 2018
Delron Buckley Former Bafana Bafana footballerAngelique AllisonEliminated 5th
on 18 March 2018
Juanita de VilliersTheatre & movie actressJohan DippenaarEliminated 6th
on 25 March 2018
Liesl Laurie Miss South Africa 2015Ryan HammondEliminated 7th
on 1 April 2018
QUARTER-FINALS
Frank Opperman ActorJeanné SwartEliminated 8th
on 8 April 2018
SEMI-FINALS
Vanes-Mari du Toit National netball player Johannes Radebe Eliminated 9th
on 15 April 2018
FINALS
Eden Classens Suidooster actor and modelAsh-Leigh HunterRunner-up
on 22 April 2018
Zola Nombona ActressTebogo MashiloRunner-up
on 22 April 2018
Connell Cruise Singer-Songwriter [4] Marcella SolimeoWinner [5]
on 22 April 2018

Scoring and voting

Every dance is scored out of 40 by the four Judges (each judge contributing a score out of 10) and these Judge's scores create the official ranking of the contestants for the week. Pre-registered voters cast their vote during the live show for their favorite couple (a maximum of 100 votes on the website platform and 100 votes on the mobile platform; a total of 200 votes per registered voter). The ranking determined by the judges gives each position on the leaderboard assigned points. With 11 contestants the system works as follows; first place is awarded 11 points, second place is awarded 10 points, third place is awarded 9 points and so on until eleventh place which is awarded 1 point. The public vote is tallied at the end of the Live Show and a ranking is determined based on those votes. Once again, this ranking assigns points based on position. With 11 contestants the system works as follows; first position is awarded 11 points, second position is awarded 10 points, third position is awarded 9 points and so on until eleventh position which is awarded 1 point. For each contestant the points earned by the Judge's ranking and points earned by the public votes are added to create a final score and the couple with the lowest combined score is eliminated. [6]

Scoring charts

CouplePlace1+2345678910 - Quarter-Finals11 - Semi-Finals12 - Final
(30)1240121212
Connell & Marcella125292532333928336363434374039
Eden & Ash-Leigh224152630282825385273033383940
Zola & Tebogo2272028282534N/A324292840344039
Vanes-Mari & Johannes42618252231252330238302932
Frank & Jeanné5202118182423162812326
Liesl & Ryan620182422282818273
Juanita & Johan721212431352922
Delron & Angelique8181719262721
Tando & Michelle91720232021
Odessa & Dylon1020211919
Thembisa & Devomn11212123
Ebenhaezer & Nombulelo122315
Red numbers indicate the lowest score for each week
Green numbers indicate the highest score for each week
  the couple eliminated that week
  the winning couple
  the runner-up couple

Average Score Chart

Rank by averagePlaceCoupleTotal PointsNumber of DancesAverage
11 Connell & Marcella4701582.8
22Zola & Tobogo4081474.6
32Eden & Ash-Leigh4261573.9
47Juanita & Johan183768
54Vanes-Mari & Johannes3311367.5
66Liesl & Ryan188959.4
75Frank & Jeanné2181154.2
811Thembisa & Devomn65354.2
98Delron & Angelique128653.3
109Tando & Michelle101550.5
1110Odessa & Dylon79449.4
1212Ebenhaezer & Nombulelo38247.5

Times and reception

The show airs on M-Net on a Sunday at 17:00 to 19:00 and the Live Results Show takes place after M-Net's flagship Investigative show Carte Blanche from 20:00 to 20:30.

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