Dancing with the Stars (Australian season 12)
| Dancing with the Stars (Australian season 12) | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | Australia |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Seven Network |
| Original release | 15 April – 17 June 2012 |
| Additional information | |
| Celebrity winner | Johnny Ruffo |
| Professional winner | Luda Kroitor |
| Season chronology | |
The twelfth season of Dancing with the Stars premiered on April 15, 2012, at the 6:30pm time slot on Channel Seven. With previous co-host Sonia Kruger defecting to Channel Nine, former Spice Girl and American Dancing with the Stars season 5 runner up Mel B was hired as her replacement.Daniel MacPherson continues his role as main host of the show, along with judges Todd McKenney, Helen Richey, and Joshua Horner.
The cast for the season were revealed on 13 March 2012 via the Seven website, along with their professional partners, although four contestants were revealed in late February 2012. This cast has been seen as a star increase on the previous year's cast, particularly with the addition of new international co-host Mel B, and former Nine daytime talkshow host Kerri-Anne Kennerley. Six new professional dancers, including former American Dancing with the Stars professional Damian Whitewood, Christopher Page, Elena Samodanova, Jess Prince, Gleb Savchenko and Damien Samuel have been recruited to replace non-returning professional dancers Alana Patience, Brendon Midson, Arsen Kishishian, Masha Belash, Jade Brand and Mark Hodge.
The celebrities and professional partners will dance one of these routines for each corresponding week.
This table only counts for dances scored on a traditional 30-points scale.
The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' marks are as follows:
According to the traditional 30 point scale. Group dances are not included.
The celebrities and professional partners danced one of these routines for each corresponding week:
Individual judges scores in the chart below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Todd, Helen, Joshua. Notes:Zoe topped the board with her graceful Viennese waltz which scored 27/30. Right down at bottom of the leaderboard was Vogue & Christopher with 14/30 for their cha-cha-cha.
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