DANCING WITH THE STARS

Kim Kardashian joins the team for the new series.

Series 7of Dancing With The Stars premieres on BBC Entertainment with ten episodes starting on October 10, to feature every Sundays at 19j30 with the results shown on Mondays at 19h45.

Full of glitz, glamour, sequins and stardom, Dancing With The Stars returns for another series pairing celebrities with professional ballroom and Latin American dancers. Celebrities taking part in this series are stand-up comedian Jeffrey Ross, actor Ted McGinley, reality star Kim Kardashian, Olympic volleyball player Misty May-Treanor, chef Rocco DiSpirito, singer Toni Braxton, Actress Cloris Leachman, TV legend Susan Lucci, sprinter Maurice Green, Disney star Cody Linley, singer Lance Bass and NFL footballer Warren Sapp.

The celebrities are paired with professional dancers, and in each episode the couples compete in a live knock-out ballroom dancing competition, performing a new dance every time, until they are eliminated from the competition by a combination of judges and audience.

The panel of judges is made up of ballroom and Latin dance judges and well-known choreographers. They help guide the viewers through the dances being featured, ensure that the couples incorporate the required steps into their routines and that the competition is taken seriously and has credibility. As well as the excitement of the competition, the cameras follow the couples throughout their dance training. They start training six weeks prior to the first transmission and continue through the series. All the training is filmed in observational documentary style charting the couples’ progress and exploring their relationships.

The Dancing With The Stars format has become a global sensation licensed to over 30 countries in six continents, and has seen famous contestants from all walks of life take to the dance floor; politicians, actors, pop stars, Olympic medallists, a Formula One driver and a Miss Universe. In the US they get through around 500 pairs of eyelashes and 14 gallons of fake tan in every series.