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Dancing With The Stars (Irish Series 7)
''Dancing with the Stars'' returned for a seventh series on 7 January 2024 on RTÉ One. On 29 August 2023, RTÉ confirmed that the show would return for a seventh season with hosts, Jennifer Zamparelli and Doireann Garrihy returning for fifth and second season, respectively. On 5 September 2023, professional dancer, and reigning champion, Emily Barker announced her departure from the show. On 31 October 2023, Maurizio Benenato confirmed that he, too, would not return having left the show two weeks into the previous season for personal reasons. On 12 November 2023, after six seasons, John Nolan became the third professional dancer to announce their decision to leave the programme. On 17 October 2023, it was reported that Irish dancers, Jillian Bromwich and Montel Hewson would join the professional line-up. On 28 November 2023, the professional line-up was confirmed with Bromwich and Hewson officially announced as joining the cast alongside former ''Dancing with the Stars' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Zamparelli
Jennifer Zamparelli (née Maguire) (born 9 April 1980) is an Irish comedian and television presenter. She is known for her role on the TV show ''Republic of Telly'', where she was a primary writer, and as co-host of the 2FM morning show ''Breakfast Republic'' with Bernard O'Shea and Keith Walsh. She also stars in the sitcom '' Bridget & Eamon''. Career Zamparelli appeared on the British television series ''The Apprentice'' in its fourth series as a 27-year-old marketing consultant, who says that when she first ran an office, she made £60,000 in six months with no training. She described herself as "the best saleswoman in Europe at the moment". The media portrayed her as "an ice maiden" and as resembling "someone frozen alive while chewing a wasp". She was fired in week 7 along with Jenny Celerier. After leaving ''The Apprentice'' Zamparelli returned to Ireland. She has since embarked on a television career. In August 2008, she participated in the Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Arena
Simone Arena (born 7 August 1991) is an Italian dancer and choreographer. Best known as former Italian Ballroom and Latin Champion, Arena joined the third series of the Belgian version of ''Dancing with the Stars''. Early life Arena was born in Catania, Italy. He has been dancing since the age of seven. Amateur dancing career By the age of sixteen Arena became the Vice Italian Latin Champion. He briefly partnered Maria Laureante for a short time in 2007. After that partnership dissolved her teamed up with Federica Zapulla. They enjoyed some success, finishing inside the top ten in the IDSF Open which took place in Maribor, Slovenia on 16 December 2007. Between 2009 and 2010, Arena partnered Malene Meihlen. Their most successful outing came in an IDSF International Open which took place in Aarhus, Denmark on 28 November 2009. He also teamed up with Slovakian dancer, Linda Manduchova for a time. He later partnered with fellow Italian dancer, Alessia Vernuccio. Their b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Nolan
Laura Nolan (born 31 May 1994) is an Irish ballroom dancer and choreographer. Early life Nolan was born in Lucan in Dublin. She is trained in ballroom, latin and ballet dancing. Professional career Nolan first began dancing competitively at the age of five when she competed in the All Ireland Championships in June 1999 with her first partner, Luca Mastropietro. The couple reached the quarterfinals of their first championship. From 2009 to 2013, Nolan danced with English dancer, Stanislav Wakeham. From 2015 to 2019, Nolan danced with Italian dancer, Alessandro Bosco. In 2018 they finished in first place in the World Open Adult Standard at the Bacau Dance Open tournament. Nolan was a finalist in the Under 21 World Championship, placing amongst the top ten in the world. In 2018, she and Bosco ranked fifth in the World Open. Nolan has won numerous International Open championships and was a finalist in the German Open. Making her the first Irish dancer to compete in the World C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fair City
''Fair City'' is an Irish television soap opera which has been broadcast on RTÉ One since 1989. Produced by the public service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), it first aired on Monday, 18 September 1989. It has won several awards and is both the most popular and the longest running Irish drama serial. Plots centre on the domestic and professional lives of the residents of Carrigstown, a fictional suburb of the Northside part of the city of Dublin. The area encompasses a restaurant, pub, garage, corner shop, community centre, charity shop, surgery, boxing club (Esker/Carrigstown Boxing Club) and various businesses. Originally aired as one half-hour episode per week for a limited run, the show is now broadcast year round on RTÉ One in four episodes per week, all of which air at 20:00. ''Fair City'' is the most watched drama in Ireland, with average viewing figures of 550,000. Devised by executive producer Margaret Gleeson and series producer Paul Cusack, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Quigley Murphy
Shane Quigley Murphy is an Irish actor from Ballinteer, Dublin. He is best known for his role as Gareth Boyle in the Irish soap opera, '' Fair City'', for which he has starred in since 2022. Career Television Quigley Murphy has appeared in several television series. In 2017, he appeared as 'Patrick' in the drama series, '' Outlander.'' In 2021, he appeared as 'Thespin Pilot Obsidian' in the Apple TV+ series, ''Foundation''. Later that year he played ‘Dean Fearon’ in the first season of the RTÉ television crime drama series '' Kin.'' In 2022, he starred as Aelfrun in the Netflix series, '' Vikings: Valhalla''. In late 2022, Quigley Murphy joined the cast of, '' Fair City'', playing the character, Gareth Boyle. Since his first appearance he has featured in some of the programme's most talked-about storylines. Film Quigley Murphy played a leading role in ''Kill Your Lover'' directed by Alix Austin and Keir Siewert which premiered at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rory Cowan
Rory Cowan is an Irish actor and entertainer. He is best known for portraying Rory Brown in ''Mrs Brown's Boys'' from 2011 to 2017, and for starring in ''Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie'' in 2014. Since 2019, Cowan has played John Bosco Walsh in the RTÉ soap opera '' Fair City''. Rory attended St Benildus College in Stillorgan. Early life Rory Cowan was born in the Coombe Hospital in Dublin to Rory Cowan Sr. and Esther Cowan. His parents were trade-union activists, while his grandfather was the soldier, solicitor, and politician Peadar Cowan, who had fought in the Irish War of Independence. The Cowans lived in Dublin, Athlone and Limerick. Career Cowan's mother wanted him to go into banking, but Cowan deliberately failed his maths exam in order to avoid this. He then worked in a record shop owned by EMI, eventually becoming marketing manager of the holding company in Ireland. While there, he managed Christy Dignam and the drag act Mr Pussy, and first saw Brendan O'Carroll in p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |