What happened on tonight's Dancing with the Stars | AWW

8 Jul 2024

The Australian Women's Weekly

As well as the complete leaderboard…

Missed tonight’s episode of Dancing with the Stars?

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Never fear, here’s a complete recap:

Episode 1

Co-hosts Sonia Kruger and Dr Chris Brown kicked off Season 21 of Dancing with the Stars by introducing this year’s contestants.

Then Lisa McCune took to the stage. She performed a “fiery” Tango with her partner Ian Waite and earned an impressive 30 points from the judges.

Nadia Bartel was up next with a Cha-Cha-Cha that left the judges wanting more. “The hip and leg action was not there in the slightest,” judge Craig Revel Horwell said.

Ant Middleton and his partner Alex Vladimirov then performed a Paso Doble, earning 18 points.

Up next was James Stewart, who was called a “sexy beast” by judge Helen Richey for his Cha-Cha-Cha.

Julie Goodwin was scheduled to perform after James, but sadly the MasterChef alum was forced to withdraw from the episode after suffering two serious tears to her calf muscles in rehearsal.

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We wish her a speedy recovery and hope we get to see her dance in the next Dancing with the Stars episode!

And finally, Ben Cousins ended up at the bottom of the leaderboard after he attempted the Foxtrot…

Leaderboard as of Episode 1: Lisa McCune and Ian Waite: 30 James Stewart and Jorja Freeman: 25 Ant Middleton and Alex Vladimirov: 18 Nadia Bartel and Lyu Masuda: 17 Ben Cousins and Siobhan Power: 14

Watch Dancing with the Stars on Channel 7 on Sundays at 7pm or on 7plus.

Author Bec Milligan Senior Content Producer

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Bec Milligan is a Senior Content Producer for The Australian Women’s Weekly, covering all things celebrity, royals, film and television, health, beauty, and pop culture. Bec graduated from the University of Technology Sydney with a Bachelor of Communications (majoring in Journalism), and then began working at the men’s publication DMARGE where she was the resident entertainment writer who occasionally dipped her toe into the travel and fashion realms. In her spare time, you’ll find Bec either dancing around in her kitchen singing along to Taylor Swift, enjoying a charcuterie board and Negroni Sbagliato (with prosecco in it), or curled up with a good book.