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Dancing With The Stars (Australian Season 20)
The twentieth season of the Australian ''Dancing with the Stars'' premiered on 18 June 2023 on Seven. Daryl Somers and Sonia Kruger returned as hosts, while Todd McKenney and Mark Wilson returned to the judging panel. Craig Revel Horwood and Sharna Burgess, who had both served as judges when the series aired on Network 10, replaced Helen Richey and Paul Mercurio. Richey was unavailable due to her husband recovering from surgery, while Mercurio was focused on his political career as a member of the Parliament of Victoria. Couples This season featured fourteen celebrity contestants. The line-up was announced on 11 May 2023. Scoring chart The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger (). Color key: ;Notes Weekly scores ''Unless indicated otherwise, individual judges scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Craig Revel Horw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Burton
Phillip Andrew Burton (born 13 March 1974) is a member of the Australian pop vocal band Human Nature with Toby Allen, Andrew Tierney and his brother Michael Tierney since 1989. With Human Nature, he has won an ARIA Music Award for ''Reach Out: The Motown Record''. Biography Phil Burton grew up in Sydney, New South Wales and studied at Hurlstone Agricultural High School where he met Toby Allen and Andrew Tierney. The three were in the same year level and worked in the school productions of ''Godspell'' and '' Grease''. They formed a band named, 4Trax, and performed for the first time in 1989 at a schools' combined concert singing "Earth Angel".McFarlan'Human Nature'entry. Retrieved 21 February 2010.Spencer et al, (2007Human Natureentry. Retrieved 21 February 2010. With Human Nature, Burton has won a Highest Selling Album ARIA Music Award for ''Reach Out: The Motown Record'' in 2006. As from 2009, the band has had 16 ARIA nominations. During 2009, the band performed in L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Wanganeen
Gavin Adrian Wanganeen (born 18 June 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), and also for the Port Adelaide Magpies in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). A Brownlow Medal winner and Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee, Wanganeen was appointed Port Adelaide's inaugural captain upon entry into the AFL in 1997 and is the first Indigenous Australian footballer to win the Brownlow Medal and reach the 300-game milestone at senior VFL/AFL level. Since retirement, Wanganeen has taken up painting. He is a descendant of the Kokatha people, a Western Desert people of South Australia, an inheritance he has explored in his art work since retirement. He has had two solo exhibitions and was an ambassador for the Adelaide Fringe in 2019. Early life Wanganeen was born in Mount Gambier to a footballing family: his great-grandfather had played for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Coustas
Mary Coustas (born 16 September 1964) is an Australian actress, comedian and television personality and writer. Originally from Melbourne, Coustas often performs as the character " Effie", a stereotypical second-generation Greek Australian prone to malapropisms. She completed a Bachelor of Arts at Deakin University in Melbourne, majoring in performing arts and sub-majoring in journalism. Coustas won the Logie Award for Most Popular Comedy Personality in 1993. Theatre Coustas' initial claim to fame was in the comedy stage show '' Wogs Out of Work'' alongside Nick Giannopoulos, George Kapiniaris and Simon Palomares. In 2019, Coustas joined the Shooshi Mango boys and Giannopoulos on stage in a show named ''Fifty Shades of Ethnic''. Television career Coustas appeared on the popular television sitcom '' Acropolis Now'', from 1989 until 1992, in the role of Effie Stephanidis. Since then she has appeared as Effie in other television shows and commercials. Effie also appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christie Whelan Browne
Christine "Christie" Whelan Browne (born 6 August 1982) is an Australian performer who has worked extensively in musical theatre as an actress, dancer and singer. She has also appeared on television shows and in films. In March 2012, she married fellow performer, Rohan Browne. Early years Christie Whelan Browne was born as Christine Whelan on 6 August 1982 in Melbourne. She grew up in the suburb of Eltham, and attended St Helena Secondary College. Whelan performed in school musicals every year from Year 7. The musicals included, "''The King and I'' and doing everything from ''Fiddler on the Roof'' to ''Little Shop of Horrors'', as well as ''Grease''." She later reflected on her Year 12 school production, "I was choreographing and playing a part. It was the first time I realised this was something that came naturally to me. It is the only thing that was born in me." The Whelan family were fervent basketballers. Whelan's first amateur theatre role was in '' Les Mis'', follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pia Miranda
Pia Miranda (born 15 June 1973) is an Australian actress whose career was launched with her role in the 2000 feature film '' Looking for Alibrandi'', an Australian film based on the novel of the same name by Melina Marchetta. She is also known for her roles as Karen Oldman in ''Neighbours'' (1998-1999), Jodie Spiteri in ''Wentworth'' (2015), and Jen in '' Mustangs FC'' (2017-2020), as well as winning ''Australian Survivor'' in 2019. Early life Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Miranda spent the majority of her early life travelling throughout Australia with her family, attending a large number of schools. She is of Italian and Irish descent. After completing her high school certificate at the Sacré Cœur School, Miranda studied history and drama at La Trobe University before transferring to Victoria University, where she majored in drama and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Performance Studies) in 1996. Career Film and television career After university, Miranda studied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Byrne
Laura Byrne (born 25 March 1986) is an Australian radio host, podcaster, television personality and writer who was the winner of the fifth season of Network 10's '' The Bachelor Australia.'' She currently hosts the drive radio show '' The Pick Up'' on the KIIS Network alongside Brittany Hockley and Mitch Churi, and also co-hosts the ''Life Uncut Podcast'' with Brittany Hockley. Career Byrne appeared as a contestant on the fifth season of Network 10's love and dating reality television show '' The Bachelor Australia'' in 2017. Byrne ended up winning the series, being accepted by the bachelor, Matty Johnson. The two decided to continue their relationship after the series ended and eventually went on to get married. In 2019, Byrne and fellow ''The Bachelor Australia'' contestant Brittany Hockley hosted a podcast titled ''Life Uncut'', which officially launched in July 2019. Following the success of the podcast, in November 2021 it was announced that Byrne and Hockley had been p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven News
''7NEWS'' is the television news service of the Seven Network and, as of 2021, the highest-rating in Australia. National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition television, high definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth city based studios. The network also produces local news bulletins and updates for the Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast, as well as regional markets in Queensland, New South Wales (including the ACT), Victoria, Australia, Victoria and Western Australia. It draws upon the resources of ITN, NBC News, NBC, Warner Bros. Discovery, CBC News, CBC, CNN, Associated Press Television News, APTN and Reuters for select international coverage. The network's Director of News and Current Affairs is Craig McPherson. History ''7NEWS'' — previously known as ''ATVN News'', ''Channel Seven News'', ''Seven Eyewitness News'', ''Seven National News'', ''Seven Nightly Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics At The Summer Olympics
Athletics has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics. The athletics program traces its earliest roots to events used in the ancient Greek Olympics. The modern program includes track and field events, road running events, and race walking events. Cross country running was also on the program in earlier editions but it was dropped after the 1924 Summer Olympics. Summary Events The events contested have varied widely. From 1900 to 1920, tug of war was considered to be part of the Olympic athletics programme, although the sports of tug of war and athletics are now considered distinct. Men's events No new events have been added to the men's athletics programme since the 1952 addition of the short racewalk. The roster of events has not changed since then, with the exception of the omission of the long racewalk in 1976 (the IAAF held a 50 km walk World Championships that year instead and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Pearson
Sally Pearson, OAM (née McLellan; born 19 September 1986) is an Australian former athlete. She is the 2011 and 2017 World champion and 2012 Olympic champion in the 100 metres hurdles. She also won a silver medal in the 100 m hurdles at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2013 World Championships. Athletic career Sally Pearson was born in Sydney and moved to Birdsville, Queensland when she was eight years old, before eventually settling on the Gold Coast. It was there, while she was still in primary school, that her athletic talents were noticed by Sharon Hannan, who coached her until 2013. Pearson rose to prominence in 2001, when at the age of only 14, she won the Australian Youth 100 m and 90 m hurdles titles. |
Natalie Lowe
Natalie Lowe (born 15 August 1980) is an Australian ballroom dancer. She is a four-time Australian ballroom dance champion. Lowe competed on, and won, Australia's ''Dancing with the Stars (Australian TV series), Dancing with the Stars'' with celebrity partner Anthony Koutoufides''.'' She later joined the BBC's ''Strictly Come Dancing''. She competed on ''Strictly'' for seven series, leaving after the 2016 series concluded. Early life Lowe grew up in Sydney, New South Wales. Lowe's family lived next door to a ballroom dance studio. At age 5, Lowe began taking dance lessons after watching her older brother and sister dance. Lowe went on to become a four-time Australian ballroom dance Champion. Career Australia's ''Dancing with the Stars'' She joined Seven Network's ''Dancing with the Stars (Australian TV series), Dancing with the Stars'' in 2004, partnering athlete Matt Shirvington. She then partnered Ian Roberts (rugby league), Ian Roberts, and won the 2006 series with AFL foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The Summer Olympics
Swimming has been a sport at every modern Summer Olympics. It has been open to women since 1912. At the Olympics, swimming has the second-highest number of medal-contested events (after athletics). Summary Long-course swimming Men's events Women's events Mixed events Medal table ''Last updated after the 2020 Summer Olympics'' Marathon swimming Events Medal table ''Last updated after the 2020 Summer Olympics'' Overall medal table ''Last updated after the 2020 Summer Olympics'' Nations Olympic records The International Olympic Committee recognize the best performances in all 35 current swimming events at the Games as Olympic records. Notable changes to the sport Times have consistently dropped over the years due to better training techniques and new developments within the sport. In the first four Olympics, competitions were not held in pools, but rather in open water (1896, the Mediterranean Sea; 1900, the Seine; 1904, an artificial lake; 1906, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Magnussen
James Magnussen (born 11 April 1991) is a retired Australian swimmer and Olympic medallist. He was the 2011 and 2013 100-metre freestyle world champion, and holds the record for the fifth fastest swim in history in the 100-metre freestyle, with a time of 47.10, which until 2016 also stood as the fastest swim in textile swimwear material. He has won a total of 16 medals in major international competition, eight gold, five silver and three bronze, spanning the Olympics, World Championships, Commonwealth Games, and the Pan Pacific Championships. He retired on 5 June 2019. Career 2010 At the 2010 Australian Swimming Championships, Magnussen came third in the 100-metre freestyle, with a time of 49.43, thus qualifying for the national team. Magnussen earned a silver medal, with Eamon Sullivan, Kyle Richardson, and Cameron Prosser in a time of 3:14.30, finishing behind the United States. Swimming the anchor leg, he had a split of 48.25. In the 100-metre freestyle, Magnussen fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
