Tonight on Dancing With The Stars, a second group of new stars took the ballroom by storm on Channel 7 and 7plus.
Read more: A quickstep up the leaderboard for Samantha JadeDetermined to win dancing’s biggest competition, pop-princess and pocket-rocket Samantha Jade shot to the top of the leaderboard with a score of 31 for her Quickstep. Judge Sharna Burgess was left speechless by her first routine.
Better Homes and Garden’s resident tradie Adam Dovile had all the right tools with his energetic Jive receiving 26 points. Helen Richey fedback to a sweaty Adam that while his performance was not perfect, his enthusiasm and passion made up for it.
Craig Revel Horwell was boo’d from the audiences for his harsh comments to Dual Olympian Nova Peris: “[She was] jerky and lumpy and when she turned, she looked lobotomised.” Nova scored the lowest on the night, with her Viennese Waltz earning only 19 points.
Comedian Nikki Osborne received 20 points for her Cha Cha, which included a very ambitious and high-risk lift. While the judges told Nikki that she shows promise, they commented that she needed to connect her core through her limbs more.
Hayden worked his way up Helen Richey’s flirty leaderboard, but his bone rattling Tango saw him only land himself in the middle of the real leaderboard with 20 points.
Shane Crawford rounded out the evening, with what Sharna called her “favourite performance of the night.” Applying his own personality and charisma to his Cha Cha, Shane’s showmanship earned him 22 points from the judges.
The final leaderboard for the night:
- Samantha Jade and Gustavo Viglio: 31
- Adam Dovile and Jess Raffa: 26
- Nova Peris and Craig Monley: 19
- Nikki Osborne and Aric Yegudkin: 20
- Hayden Quinn and Lily Cornish: 20
- Shane Crawford and Ash-Leigh Hunter: 22
