Dancing with the Stars (Greek TV series)


Dancing with the Stars is a Greek dance competition television series that premiered on March 28, 2010, on ANT1 and filmed live in Athens. The show aired until February 1, 2015, on ANT1. On January 26, 2018 ANT1 premiered the sixth season and aired until May 4, 2018. The show will return from Star Channel. The show is based on the British BBC Television series Strictly Come Dancing and is part of BBC Worldwide's Dancing with the Stars franchise. The theme song is "It's personal" performed by Swedish indie pop band The Radio Dept.
The format of the show consists of a celebrity 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

Since its premiere in 2010, the show was hosted by Zeta Makripoulia. In the fourth season Makripoulia was replaced by Doukissa Nomikou. The sixth season was hosted by Evangelia Aravani. There was also a different co-host in each season for the backstage room, also known as Green Room. The co-hosts included Eleni Karpontini and Mary Sinatsaki. Argiris Aggelou, the winner of the second season, co-hosted the third season, Ntoretta Papadimitriou, the winner of the third season, co-hosted the fourth season and Kostas Martakis, the runner-up of the second season, co-hosted the fifth season. Savvas Poumpouraas co-hosted the sixth season.
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Judges

Giannis Latsios, Fokas Evaggelinos, Galena Velikova-Chaina and Alexis Kostalas were the judges of the first season. In the second season, Errica Prezerakou, the winner of the first season, replaced Velikova-Chaina. In the third season, Prezerakou was replaced by Katia Dandoulaki and Velikova-Chaina returned.
In the fourth season, all the judges from season 3 returned except for Evaggelinos, while Giorgos Liagkas, Eugenia Manolidou and Themos Anastasiadis were guest judges for the 4th, 8th and 9th week respectively. In the fifth season all the judges from season 4 returned. Lakis Gavalas is the fifth judge in fifth season.
In the sixth season Kostalas and Velikova returned as judges, while Giorgos Liagas and, former contestant, Eleonora Meleti joined the judging panel. Throughout the season, various guest judges appeared as the fifth judge in the judging panel for one episode.
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Couples

A total of 84 celebrities have appeared during the 6 seasons of the series. Twelve celebrities participated in the first season, 14 in the second, third, fourth and fifth season and 16 in the sixth season. Also, a total of 35 professional partners have appeared alongside celebrities, some for only one season.

Professional partners

Bold font indicates that the dancer is a participant in the present season.
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List of dance

DanceSeasons performed
Argentine tango
2–6
Bachata
4–6
Bollywood
5–
Cha–cha–cha
1–6
Christmas Rock n' Roll Marathon
4
Christmas Swing Marathon
5
Contemporary
5–6
Dance Boogie Marathon
3
Dance Fusion
4
Disco
3, 5-6
European tango
5–6
Foxtrot
1–6
Freestyle
1–6
Hip hop
6
Instant Cha–Cha–Cha
3
Jive
1–6
Lambada
5
Mambo
1–6
Merengue
5
Paso Doble
1–6
Pole dance
6
Quickstep
1–6
Rock 'n Roll
1–2
Rock n' Roll Marathon
2
Rumba
1–6
Salsa
4–6
Solo Dance
4, 6
Samba
1–6
Tango
1–6
Team Dances
2, 4, 6
Trio Challenge
3-6
Viennese Waltz
1–6
Waltz
1–2, 4–6

Records

Highest-scoring celebrities

The scores presented below represent the best overall accumulative average scores the celebrity gained each season.
RankSeasonPlaceCelebrityProfessionalAverage score
12ChampionArgiris AggelouEmily Matthaiakaki35.9
222ndKostas MartakisMaria Antimisari35.2
312ndMatthildi MaggiraRichard Szilagyi35
426thEleonora MeletiElias Ladas34.4
525thNadia BouleThanos Pisanidis34.3
61ChampionErrika PrezerakouThodoris Panagakos34.1
723rdAggeliki IliadiElias Boutsis33.5
813rdEugenia ManolidouElias Ladas33
84ChampionIsaias MatiambaMaria Antimisari33
942ndKaterina StikoudiElias Boutsis32.7
1027thNatalia DragoumiYuri Dimitrov32.1
1129thNatassa KalogridiVaggelis Holevas32
1143rdKlelia PantaziPaulos Manogiannakis32
1216thSavvas PoumpourasEmily Matthaiakaki30.7
1344thMary SynatsakiYuri Dimitrov30.5

RankSeasonPlaceCelebrityProfessionalAverage score
15ChampionMorfoula NtonaRichard Szilagyi44.5
23ChampionNtoretta PapadimitriouPaulos Manogiannakis44.1
332ndElias VrettosClaudia-Anna Stoyia41.8
452ndEirini PapadopoulouKonstantinos Papazoglou41.6
553rdNikoleta KarraThodoris Panagakos40.8
633rdLaura NarjesGiannis Tserkinis37.2
735thSpyros SoulisMaria Antimisari36.7
836thElena PapavasileiouElias Boutsis35.8
934thNikos AnadiotisAnastasia Draka35.7
1037thKelly KellekidouVaggelis Holevas34.6
1139thGiorgos TsalikisEmily Mathaiakaki32.4
12310thKostas KrommidasAnna Polyzou32

RankSeasonPlaceCelebrityProfessionalTotal score
13ChampionNtoretta PapadimitriouPaulos Manogiannakis838
25ChampionMorfoula NtonaRichard Szilagyi801
332ndElias VrettosClaudia-Anna Stoyia794
452ndEirini PapadopoulouKonstantinos Papazoglou790
54ChampionIsaias MatiambaMaria Antimisari725
642ndKaterina StikoudiElias Boutsis720
71ChampionErrika PrezerakouThodoris Panagakos614
853rdNikoleta KarraThodoris Panagakos612
92ChampionArgiris AggelouEmily Matthaiakaki611
1022ndKostas MartakisMaria Antimisari600
1112ndMatthildi MaggiraRichard Szilagyi595
1133rdLaura NarjesGiannis Tserkinis595
1243rdKlelia PantaziPaulos Manogiannakis544
1344thMary SynatsakiYuri Dimitrov519
1434thNikos AnadiotisAnastasia Draka503

Number of perfect scores

;Celebrities
# of 40sSeasonPlaceCelebrityProfessional partner
6
512ndMatthildi MaggiraRichard Szilagyi
44
4		Champion
2nd		Isaias Matiamba
Katerina Stikoudi		Maria Antimisari
Elias Boutsis
31
2		Champion
Champion		Errika Prezerakou
Argiris Aggelou		Thodoris Panagakos
Emily Matthaiakaki
21
4		3rd
3rd		Eugenia Manolidou
Klelia Pantazi		Elias Ladas
Paulos Manogiannakis
12
2
2		6th
2nd
3rd		Eleonora Meleti
Kostas Martakis
Aggeliki Iliadi		Elias Ladas
Maria Antimisari
Elias Boutsis

;Celebrities
# of 50sSeasonPlaceCelebrityProfessional partner
85ChampionMorfoula NtonaRichard Szilagyi
7
6
53ChampionNtoretta PapadimitriouPaulos Manogiannakis
4
352ndEirini PapadopoulouKonstantinos Papazoglou
23
5		2nd
3rd		Elias Vrettos
Nikoleta Karra		Claudia-Anna Stoyia
Thodoris Panagakos
1

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