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Dancing With The Stars (Irish Series 5)
''Dancing with the Stars'' returned for a fifth series on 9 January 2022 on RTÉ One. This was the first series in two years after the show was put on a year-long hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic. On 12 November 2021, it was announced that the show would return in the New Year with Nicky Byrne and Jennifer Zamparelli returning as hosts for a fifth and third series, respectively. It was also confirmed that Brian Redmond and Loraine Barry return as judges, however, Julian Benson did not. Armenian-born choreographer and creative director, Arthur Gourounlian joined the judging panel in Benson's place. It was also confirmed that the series would start with twelve celebrities, rather than eleven as it had been for the previous four installments. This series also saw professional dancers, Giulia Dotta, Kai Widdrington, Robert Rowiński and Ryan McShane depart the show. They were replaced by five new professional dancers, Denys Samson, Ervinas Merfeldas, Hannah Kelly, Maurizio Benena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Carberry
Nina Carberry (born 19 July 1984) is a retired Irish female National Hunt jockey. She hails from a racing family and is the daughter of jockey Tommy Carberry. Career Carberry got her first Cheltenham Festival win in 2005 on Dabiroun in the Fred Winter Juvenile Novices' Handicap Hurdle. It was the first time in 18 years that a female jockey won a race at the Cheltenham Festival. In 2005/06, she became Irish Qualified Rider Champion for the first time and repeated the feat the next season. At the Cheltenham Festival, she won the 2007 Cross Country Handicap Chase on Heads Onthe Ground, before winning on Garde Champetre in 2008 and 2009, to give her a record three wins in the race. She extended it to four wins in 2016 with Josies Orders when Any Currency was disqualified. In 2015 and 2016 she won the St James's Place Foxhunter Chase at the Cheltenham Festival riding On the Fringe. In 2011, she won the Irish Grand National on Organisedconfusion which was trained by her uncle Arthur M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan McShane
Ryan McShane (born 22 January 1985) is a Northern Irish dancer and Choreography (dance), choreographer. He, alongside his professional partner, Ksenia Zsikhotska, were the 2016 United Kingdom & British Latin Professional Champions and British Show Dance Champions. He is also known as being one of the professional dancers on the Dancing with the Stars (Irish TV series), Irish version of ''Dancing with the Stars''. Early life McShane was born in Lurgan, Northern Ireland. He started dancing at the age of seven. Career In 2015, McShane toured with ''Strictly Come Dancing'' professional Brendan Cole's ''A Night to Remember'' tour across the UK and Ireland. In 2016, McShane and partner, Ksenia Zsikhotska, were crowned United Kingdom & British Latin Professional Champions & British Show Dance Champions. ''Got to Dance'' In 2013, McShane took part in the Sky One dance competition show, Got to Dance alongside partner, Ksenia Zsikhotska. They received three gold stars from the judge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RTÉ
(RTÉ) (; Irish language, Irish for "Radio & Television of Ireland") is the Public broadcaster, national broadcaster of Republic of Ireland, Ireland headquartered in Dublin. It both produces and broadcasts programmes on RTÉ Television, television, RTÉ Radio, radio and RTÉ.ie, online. The radio service began on 1 January 1926, while regular television broadcasts began on 31 December 1961, making it one of the oldest continuously operating public service broadcasters in the world. RTÉ also publishes a weekly listings and lifestyle magazine, the ''RTÉ Guide''. RTÉ is a statutory body, overseen by a board appointed by the Government of Ireland, with general management in the hands of the RTÉ Executive Board, Executive Board, headed by the Director-General. RTÉ is regulated by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. RTÉ is financed by Television licensing in the Republic of Ireland, television licence fee and through advertising, with some of its services funded solely by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kylee Vincent
Kylee Vincent (born 15 July 1994; née Brown) is a South African dancer and Choreography (dance), choreographer. She is a former UK Latin Champion. Early life Vincent was born in Pretoria, South Africa. Vincent began dancing at the age of eight. Career Vincent is a WDC South Africa Under 21 Latin Champion. In 2011, she won the Under 21 WDC World Latin Championships. In 2012, she was the Under 21 Open British Latin Championship in Blackpool in 2012. In 2013, Vincent joined the touring dance company ''Burn the Floor''. She has toured the world with the company every year since. In 2018 and 2019, Vincent joined ''Strictly Come Dancing'' professional, Giovanni Pernice as a dancer on his solo tour. ''Dancing with the Stars'' In November 2019, it was confirmed that Vincent would be joining the cast of the Irish series of Dancing with the Stars (Irish TV series), ''Dancing with the Stars'' as a professional dancer. For her first season, Vincent was paired with singer and pries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Kelly
Cathy Kelly (born 12 September 1966) is an Irish former journalist and writer of women's fiction since 1997. She has gained international recognition with her popular fiction novels, which are published globally in many languages. In 2001, her novel ''Someone Like You'' won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Kelly is one of the most successful female authors to come out of Ireland since Maeve Binchy, having once outsold both Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling in the UK. Biography Early life and career Born in Belfast but raised in Dublin, she studied at a convent school. Kelly initially worked for 13 years as a newspaper journalist with the '' Sunday World'', where she worked in news, features, along with spending time as an agony aunt and film critic. However, her overwhelming love was always fiction and she published her first international bestseller, ''Woman To Woman'', in 1997. She did not become a full-time writer until she had writte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Delamere
Neil Delamere ( ; born 1979) is an Irish comedian. He is a regular on the BBC Northern Ireland television show '' The Blame Game'', and the reigning BBC Fighting Talk Champion of Champions. Early life and education Delamere is from Edenderry, County Offaly. He has a degree in Computer Applications from Dublin City University (DCU). Career He began his career in 2004 at the Edinburgh Festival. Since then he has worked for both Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and the BBC, in programmes such as the BBC comedy series ''One Night Stand'', BBC radio and television panel quiz '' The Blame Game'' and RTÉ topical comedy show '' The Panel''. He hosted ''Neil Delamere's Just For Laughs'', a comedy television show in which he interviewed acts performing at the Montreal Festival. He featured on ''Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow'' on 4 July 2009. Delamere made his debut appearance on Radio Five Live's panel show ''Fighting Talk'', broadcast on 11 December 2010, and won. In 2011, he ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gráinne Seoige
Gráinne Seoige (; born 5 November 1973) is an Irish journalist, news anchor and documentary and entertainment television presenter. A noted Irish language supporter, Seoige is the only television personality to have worked with all four Irish terrestrial television stations—TG4, TV3, RTÉ One and RTÉ2—and to have read the inaugural news bulletins on three separate channels—TG4, TV3, and Sky News Ireland. Early life The eldest of four children, Seoige was born in Spiddal to Philomena and Mairtín Seoige. Gráinne's youngest sibling, her sister Síle, is also a television presenter. Gráinne was raised in Galway and attended Mercy Convent, Spiddal , before studying at University College Galway (UCG) and graduating with a B.A. in English, Sociology and Political Science. Seoige then went on to complete a Higher Diploma in Applied Communications for Television and Radio through Irish, also at UCG. Broadcasting career TG4/TV3 Seoige began her broadcasting career on Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Keane
Ellen Keane (born 6 April 1995) is an Irish Paralympic swimmer and gold medallist competing in S9, SM9 and SB8 classification events. Career Keane won three bronze medals at world championships before winning a bronze medal in the 100 m breaststroke (SB8) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, and gold at the same event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Personal life Keane was born with an undeveloped left arm and competes as an amputee. She is a student at Dublin Institute of Technology. In June 2017 she was honoured by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Brendan Carr, with a Lord Mayor's Award, which is awarded 'to citizens who, through their ordinary everyday lives, enrich this city in an extraordinary way'. Media appearances In 2017, Keane gave a TEDx Talk Entitled 'My Lucky Fin' telling the story of how she changed the way of looking at her own disability - and how that in turn changed her entire life. In 2022, Keane appeared on the fifth series of the Irish version of ''Dancing Wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aengus Mac Grianna
Aengus Mac Grianna (born 9 July 1964) is a former Irish newsreader for RTÉ. Mac Grianna was born in Raheny, a suburb in north Dublin, to an Irish-speaking family. His father was a scientist and his mother was a teacher. Mac Grianna was educated solely through Irish. He broadcast in both Irish and English. Mac Grianna has presented the Oireachtas Media Awards. He lives on an alpaca farm in County Meath just outside Ashbourne with his husband Terry Gill whom he married in June 2014. His first job was in the Arnotts Sports Department where he earned £80 per week. He is a fan of '' Desperate Housewives'' and '' Coronation Street'' and supports Dublin and Manchester United. Mac Grianna was considered a favourite to replace iconic newsreader Anne Doyle when she retired on 25 December 2011. On 9 January 2013, a video of Mac Grianna surfaced on YouTube YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salome Chachua
Salome Chachua ( ka, სალომე ჭაჭუა ''Salome Ch’ach’ua'', born 23 June 1990) is a Georgian ballroom and Latin dancer and choreographer. Career Chachua is a seven-time Georgian Latin dancing champion. From 2004 to 2006, Chachua represented Georgia in several Junior World dance competitions. She was at one time ranked 57th in WDC Professional Latin and 73rd in WDSF RLS Latin. ''So You Think You Can Dance'' In 2016, Chachua was a judge on the Georgian version of the dance competition show ''So You Think You Can Dance.'' ''Dancing with the Stars'' Georgia Between 2012 and 2018, Chachua appeared as a professional dancer on seven non-consecutive seasons of the Georgian version of ''Dancing with the Stars,'' reaching the final with her celebrity partners three separate times. Ireland On 22 December 2021, Chachua was announced as one of the new professionals to join the fifth series of the Irish version of ''Dancing with the Stars''. Her partner w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurizio Benenato
Maurizio Benenato (born 25 March 1991) is an Italian ballroom and Latin dancer and choreographer. Early life Benenato began dancing at the age of five, specialising in both ballroom and Latin disciplines. Career From February 2012 to March 2015, Benenato partnered Russian dancer, Tatiana Veselkina to great success. Together the couple were World 10 Dance Cup and European 10 Dance Cup Champions. In 2016 partnered with Russian dancer, Veronika Dichka. Their best placement came when they placed second at the WDSF Open in Moscow. Following his competitive career, he joined the cast of the Riverdance show, Heartbeat of Home as a principal dancer and also danced with the Burn the Floor touring show. In 2020, Benenato joined ''Strictly Come Dancing'' professional, Graziano Di Prima’s, ''Havana Nights'' UK touring show. ''Dancing with the Stars'' On 22 December 2021, Benenato was announced as one of the new professionals to join the fifth season of the Irish version of ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
