Dancing with the Stars (Greek TV series)

Dancing with the Stars
Created by	Fenia Vardanis Richard Hopkins
Based on	Strictly Come Dancing
Developed by	BBC
Presented by	Zeta Makripoulia (2010–2012) Doukissa Nomikou (2013–) Eleni Karpontini (2010) Mary Sinatsaki (2011) Argiris Aggelou (2012) Ntoretta Papadimitriou (2013) Kostas Martakis (2014)
Judges	Alexis Kostalas (2010–) Giannis Latsios (2010–) Galena Velikova (2010, 2012–) Katia Dandoulaki (2012–) Lakis Gavalas (2014) Errica Prezerakou (2011) Fokas Evagelinos (2010–2012)
Opening theme	"It's personal" by The Radio Dept
Country of origin	Greece
Original language(s)	Greek
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	69 (as of February 1, 2015)
Production
Location(s)	Athens, Greece
Running time	approx. 180 to 200 minutes per episode (including commercials)
Production company(s)	ENA Productions
Release
Original network	ANT1
Picture format	576i (SDTV)
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	28 March 2010 – Present
External links
Website

Dancing with the Stars is a Greek reality show airing on ANT1 (premiered on 28 March 2010) and filmed live in Athens. The show is based on the United Kingdom 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 show was aired for 5 seasons.

Cast

Hosts

Since its premiere in 2010, the show was hosted by Zeta Makripoulia. In the fourth season Makripoulia was replaced by Doukissa Nomikou. 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 (first season) and Mary Sinatsaki (second season). Argiris Aggelou, the winner of the second season, co-hosted the third season and Ntoretta Papadimitriou, the winner of the third season, co-hosted the fourth season. Kostas Martakis, the runner-up of the second season, co-hosted the fifth season.

Color key:

     – Previous

     – Current

Host	Season
	1	2	3	4	5
Zeta Makripoulia
Doukissa Nomikou

Co-host	Season
	1	2	3	4	5
Eleni Karpontini
Mary Sinatsaki
Argiris Aggelou
Ntoretta Papadimitriou
Kostas Martakis

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,^[1] Eugenia Manolidou^[2] and Themos Anastasiadis^[3] 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.

Color key:

     – Current

     – Previous

     – Guest judge

Judge	Season
	1	2	3	4	5
Alexis Kostalas
Giannis Latsios
Galena Velikova-Chaina
Katia Dandoulaki
Lakis Gavalas
Fokas Evagelinos
Errika Prezerakou
Giorgos Liagkas
Eugenia Manolidou
Themos Anastasiadis

Couples

A total of 68 celebrities have appeared during the 5 seasons of the series. Twelve celebrities participated in the first season and 14 in each other season (second, third, fourth and fifth). Also, a total of 31 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.

Color key:

     Winner

     Runner-up

     3rd place

     Last place

Professional dancer	Seasons
	1	2	3	4	5
Alexandros Papadopoulos	Patritsia Peristeri
Anastasia Draka			Nikos Anadiotis	Lakis Gavalas	Theocharis Ioannidis
Anna Polyzou	Michalis Zambidis	Nasos Galakteros	Kostas Krommidas	Michalis Mouroutsos
Claudia-Anna Stoyia		Tryfonas Samaras	Elias Vrettos	Alex Kavdas	Thanos Petrelis
Dimitris Fokas			Vasia Trifylli
Dimitris Kranias	Fotini Pipili	Niki Xanthou
Dionisis Klampanis					Niki Kartsona
Dionisis Valmis			Marianta Pieridi	Konstantina
Efi Giannaraki	Stamatis Gardelis
Elias Boutsis	Vicky Koulianou	Aggeliki Iliadi	Elena Papavasileiou	Katerina Stikoudi
Elias Ladas	Eugenia Manolidou	Eleonora Meleti			Elisavet Spanou
Emily Matthaiakaki	Savvas Poumpouras	Argiris Aggelou	Giorgos Tsalikis
Eutuxia Marketaki			Giannis Aivazis
Evi Semprou					Thanasis Viskadourakis
Fotini Papastavrou		Giorgos Gerolimatos		Thanos Kallioras	Triantafyllos
Gaetano Parisi					Christina Aloupi
Giannis Tserkinis			Laura Narjes
Giorgos Ketseridis				Eleni Chatzidou
Konstantinos Papazoglou					Eirini Papadopoulou
Maria Adimisari	Dimitris Vlachos	Kostas Martakis	Spyros Soulis	Isaias Matiamba	Christos Spanos
Nikoletta Mauridi				Sakis Arseniou
Panagiotis Grammatikos	Hrysopiyi Devetzi
Panos Xylas		Maria Tsouri
Paulos Manogiannakis			Ntoretta Papadimitriou	Klelia Pantazi	Maria Iliaki
Richard Szilagyi	Matthildi Maggira				Morfoula Ntona
Thanos Pisanidis		Nadia Boule
Thodoris Panagakos	Errika Prezerakou	Marietta Chrousala	Vana Mparmpa	Gogo Mastrokosta	Nikoletta Karra
Tzeni Nikolentzou	Kostas Sommer	Giorgos Chraniotis			Fanis Lampropoulos
Vaggelis Holevas		Natassa Kalogridi	Kelly Kellekidou	Chrispa
Vladimir Morotsko				Evagelia Aravani	Thalia Prokopiou
Yuri Dimitrov		Natalia Dragoumi	Nikoleta Ralli	Mary Synatsaki

List of dance

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

Records

Highest-scoring celebrities

The scores presented below represent the best overall accumulative average scores the celebrity gained each season.

40 Points

Rank	Season	Place	Celebrity	Professional	Average score
1	2	Champion	Argiris Aggelou	Emily Matthaiakaki	35.9
2	2	2nd	Kostas Martakis	Maria Antimisari	35.2
3	1	2nd	Matthildi Maggira	Richard Szilagyi	35
4	2	6th	Eleonora Meleti	Elias Ladas	34.4
5	2	5th	Nadia Boule	Thanos Pisanidis	34.3
6	1	Champion	Errika Prezerakou	Thodoris Panagakos	34.1
7	2	3rd	Aggeliki Iliadi	Elias Boutsis	33.5
8	1	3rd	Eugenia Manolidou	Elias Ladas	33
	4	Champion	Isaias Matiamba	Maria Antimisari
9	4	2nd	Katerina Stikoudi	Elias Boutsis	32.7
10	2	7th	Natalia Dragoumi	Yuri Dimitrov	32.1
11	2	9th	Natassa Kalogridi	Vaggelis Holevas	32
	4	3rd	Klelia Pantazi	Paulos Manogiannakis
12	1	6th	Savvas Poumpouras	Emily Matthaiakaki	30.7
13	4	4th	Mary Synatsaki	Yuri Dimitrov	30.5

50 Points

Rank	Season	Place	Celebrity	Professional	Average score
1	5	Champion	Morfoula Ntona	Richard Szilagyi	44.5
2	3	Champion	Ntoretta Papadimitriou	Paulos Manogiannakis	44.1
3		2nd	Elias Vrettos	Claudia-Anna Stoyia	41.8
4	5	2nd	Eirini Papadopoulou	Konstantinos Papazoglou	41.6
5		3rd	Nikoleta Karra	Thodoris Panagakos	40.8
6	3	3rd	Laura Narjes	Giannis Tserkinis	37.2
7		5th	Spyros Soulis	Maria Antimisari	36.7
8		6th	Elena Papavasileiou	Elias Boutsis	35.8
9		4th	Nikos Anadiotis	Anastasia Draka	35.7
10		7th	Kelly Kellekidou	Vaggelis Holevas	34.6
11		9th	Giorgos Tsalikis	Emily Mathaiakaki	32.4
12		10th	Kostas Krommidas	Anna Polyzou	32

Over 500 Points (in overall score)

Rank	Season	Place	Celebrity	Professional	Total score
1	3	Champion	Ntoretta Papadimitriou	Paulos Manogiannakis	838
2	5	Champion	Morfoula Ntona	Richard Szilagyi	801
3	3	2nd	Elias Vrettos	Claudia-Anna Stoyia	794
4	5	2nd	Eirini Papadopoulou	Konstantinos Papazoglou	790
5	4	Champion	Isaias Matiamba	Maria Antimisari	725
6	4	2nd	Katerina Stikoudi	Elias Boutsis	720
7	1	Champion	Errika Prezerakou	Thodoris Panagakos	614
8	5	3rd	Nikoleta Karra	Thodoris Panagakos	612
9	2	Champion	Argiris Aggelou	Emily Matthaiakaki	611
10	2	2nd	Kostas Martakis	Maria Antimisari	600
11	1	2nd	Matthildi Maggira	Richard Szilagyi	595
	3	3rd	Laura Narjes	Giannis Tserkinis
12	4	3rd	Klelia Pantazi	Paulos Manogiannakis	544
13	4	4th	Mary Synatsaki	Yuri Dimitrov	519
14	3	4th	Nikos Anadiotis	Anastasia Draka	503

Number of perfect scores

Celebrities

# of 40s	Season	Place	Celebrity	Professional partner
6
5	1	2nd	Matthildi Maggira	Richard Szilagyi
4	4 4	Champion 2nd	Isaias Matiamba Katerina Stikoudi	Maria Antimisari Elias Boutsis
3	1 2	Champion Champion	Errika Prezerakou Argiris Aggelou	Thodoris Panagakos Emily Matthaiakaki
2	1 4	3rd 3rd	Eugenia Manolidou Klelia Pantazi	Elias Ladas Paulos Manogiannakis
1	2 2 2	6th 2nd 3rd	Eleonora Meleti Kostas Martakis Aggeliki Iliadi	Elias Ladas Maria Antimisari Elias Boutsis

Celebrities

# of 50s	Season	Place	Celebrity	Professional partner
8	5	Champion	Morfoula Ntona	Richard Szilagyi
7
6
5	3	Champion	Ntoretta Papadimitriou	Paulos Manogiannakis
4
3	5	2nd	Eirini Papadopoulou	Konstantinos Papazoglou
2	3 5	2nd 3rd	Elias Vrettos Nikoleta Karra	Claudia-Anna Stoyia Thodoris Panagakos
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Series overview

Season	No. of stars	No. of weeks	Duration dates	Celebrity honor places
				Winner	Second place	Third place
1) Spring 2010	12	13	28/03/10 – 20/06/10	Errika Prezerakou & Thodoris Panagakos	Matthildi Maggira & Richard Szilagyi	Eugenia Manolidou & Elias Ladas
2) Spring 2011	14	13	20/03/11 – 10/06/11	Argiris Aggelou & Emily Matthaiakaki	Kostas Martakis & Maria Adimisari	Aggeliki Iliadi & Elias Boutsis
3) Autumn 2012	14	14	18/11/12 – 17/02/13	Ntoretta Papadimitriou & Paulos Manogiannakis	Elias Vrettos & Claudia-Anna Stoyia	Laura Narjes & Giannis Tserkinis
4) Autumn 2013	14	15	20/10/13 – 02/02/14	Isaias Matiamba & Maria Adimisari	Katerina Stikoudi & Elias Boutsis	Klelia Pantazi & Paulos Manogiannakis
5) Autumn 2014	14	14	26/10/14 – 01/02/15	Morfoula Ntona & Richard Szilagyi	Eirini Papadopoulou & Konstantinos Papazoglou	Nikoleta Karra & Thodoris Panagakos

References

1. ""DWTS 4": Ο Γιώργος Λιάγκας guest κριτής και το "πετεινάρι - αποχώρηση" της Ελένης Χατζίδου". cosmo.gr. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
2. Melas, Grigoris (December 12, 2013). "Ευγενία Μανωλίδου στο Newsit: "Θα είμαι αμείλικτη στο 'Dancing'"!". newsIT.
3. "Θέμος Αναστασιάδης: Γκεστ κριτής στο 9o live του "Dancing with the stars 4".Δείτε την ανατρεπτική του είσοδο στο πλατό". Gossip TV. Retrieved 22 December 2013.

External links

• Official website of Dancing with the Stars Greece