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Dancing With The Stars (Australian Season 1)
The first season of the Australian '' Dancing with the Stars'' premiered on 5 October 2004. Daryl Somers and Sonia Kruger served as the hosts, while Todd McKenney, Paul Mercurio, Helen Richey, and Mark Wilson served as the judges. '' Home and Away'' actress Bec Cartwright Rebecca June Hewitt ( Cartwright; born 23 July 1983) is an Australian actress and singer. From 1998 to 2005, Hewitt played Hayley Smith Lawson on the soap opera '' Home and Away''. As Bec Cartwright, Hewitt released an eponymous pop music alb ... and Michael Mizner were announced as the winners on 23 November 2004, while politician Pauline Hanson and Salvatore Vecchio finished in second place. Couples This season featured eight celebrity contestants. Scoring chart The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger (). Color key: ;Notes Dance chart The couples performed the following each week: *Week 1: One unlear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bec Hewitt
Rebecca June Hewitt ( Cartwright; born 23 July 1983) is an Australian actress and singer. From 1998 to 2005, Hewitt played Hayley Smith Lawson on the soap opera ''Home and Away''. As Bec Cartwright, Hewitt released an eponymous pop music album in 2002. In 2005, she married professional tennis player Lleyton Hewitt. Career Cartwright began her acting career at age 5 for television commercials. In 1992, she made her mainstream television debut on an episode of ''Police Rescue''. She has also guest starred in '' Water Rats'' and '' Roar''. She won her breakout role and best-known role to date in 1998, portraying Hayley Smith Lawson on ''Home and Away''. Cartwright became a series fan favourite and earned herself numerous Logie Award nominations until 2005. In the same year, Cartwright earned a Most Popular Actress win. She coincidentally fell pregnant within months of her 'Home and Away' character, and then left the series to become a full-time mother. For a short period of tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowing At The Summer Olympics
Rowing at the Summer Olympics has been part of the competition since its debut in the 1900 Summer Olympics. Rowing was on the program at the 1896 Summer Olympics but was cancelled due to bad weather. Only men were allowed to compete until the women's events were introduced at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal which gave national federations the incentive to support women's events and catalysed growth in women's rowing. Lightweight rowing events (which have weight-limited crews) were introduced to the games in 1996. Qualifying for the rowing events is under the jurisdiction of the World Rowing Federation. World Rowing predates the modern Olympics and was the first international sport federation to join the modern Olympic movement. Summary Events At the 2016 and other recent Olympics, the following 14 events were contested: *Men: Single sculls, Double sculls, Quadruple sculls, Coxless pair, Coxless four, Eight. *Lightweight Men: Double sculls, Coxless four *Women: Sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dancing With The Stars (Australian Season 2)
The second season of the Australian ''Dancing with the Stars'' premiered on 8 February 2005. Daryl Somers and Sonia Kruger returned as hosts, while Todd McKenney, Paul Mercurio, Helen Richey, and Mark Wilson returned as judges. '' The Great Outdoors'' presenter Tom Williams and Kym Johnson were announced as the winners on 26 April 2005, while NRL player Ian Roberts and Natalie Lowe finished in second place. Couples This season featured ten celebrity contestants. Scoring chart The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger (). Color key: ;Notes Weekly scores Week 1 Couples performed either the cha-cha-cha or the waltz. Couples are listed in the order they performed. Week 2 Couples performed either the quickstep or the rumba. Couples are listed in the order they performed. Week 3 Couples performed either the jive or the tango. Couples are listed in the order they perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kym Johnson
Kym Herjavec (née Johnson; born 4 August 1976) is an Australian professional ballroom dancer and television performer who appeared in the first three seasons of the Australian version of ''Dancing with the Stars'' as a professional dancer, before moving to the U.S. version of the franchise from 2006 to 2015. Johnson returned as a professional to the U.S. series in 2017 for its 24th season. She also served as a judge on the Australian version of the show from 2013 to 2015. She is married to Robert Herjavec. Dance biography Johnson began dancing at the age of three. She began ballroom dancing at 13 years of age. In 1998, she and her partner, Lithuanian Tomas Atkocevicius, placed second at the Australian Dancesport Championship in the Open Amateur Modern Ballroom. They also were finalists as the U.K. Ballroom Championships at Blackpool. She retired from competitive ballroom dance in 2001, but continued dancing on stage. Since 2001, she has appeared in a number of events and fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Melvey
Justin Melvey (born 7 May 1969) is an Australian actor who has appeared in a number of television series in Australia and the US. Career Melvey is best known to Australian audiences for his role as Harry Reynolds in the evening soap opera '' Home and Away'' from 1999 to 2001. This earned him a Logie Award for Most Popular New Talent on Australian television. Melvey is best known to United States television audiences for his work on the soap opera '' Days of Our Lives''. He played Dr. Colin Murphy from October 2001 to January 2003. Australian viewers did not get to see this stint, as the Nine Network decided in late 2004 to skip 864 episodes of ''Days'' in order to catch up with the US (instead airing a special, "A New Day", to show highlights of the four years of storyline thus skipped). However, Melvey returned to ''Days'' for a short stint in late 2004, which Australian viewers were able to see. He also appeared for a brief stint as Andrew Olsen on '' General Hospital'' in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wood (actor, Born 1946)
John Wood (born 14 July 1946) is an Australian television Gold Logie Award-winning actor and scriptwriter. Wood has appeared in numerous theatre and TV productions, but is best known for his roles in the legal drama ''Rafferty's Rules'' as Stipendiary Magistrate Michael Rafferty and in the long-running police drama ''Blue Heelers'', as Tom Croydon both for the Seven Network. Biography Early career Wood began his acting career in 1966, attending National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and doing a play called ''Eh?'' directed by Max Gillies and co-starring Tony Taylor. In 1970 he became a professional actor and worked for the Old Tote Theatre Company in a production of ''Death of a Salesman''. Career-Television His first professional TV role was in ''Minus Five'' with Ken James and Rowena Wallace which went to air with the title ''Barrier Reef''. A common misconception is that his first role was a guest role in '' Bellbird'', an Australian television series. He then a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie Lowe
Natalie Lowe (born 15 August 1980) is an Australian ballroom dancer. She is a four-time Australian ballroom dance champion. Lowe competed on, and won, Australia's ''Dancing with the Stars'' with celebrity partner Anthony Koutoufides''.'' She later joined the BBC's ''Strictly Come Dancing''. She competed on ''Strictly'' for seven series, leaving after the 2016 series concluded. Early life Lowe grew up in Sydney, New South Wales. Lowe's family lived next door to a ballroom dance studio. At age 5, Lowe began taking dance lessons after watching her older brother and sister dance. Lowe went on to become a four-time Australian ballroom dance Champion. Career Australia's ''Dancing with the Stars'' She joined Seven Network's ''Dancing with the Stars'' in 2004, partnering athlete Matt Shirvington. She then partnered Ian Roberts, and won the 2006 series with AFL footballer Anthony Koutoufides. Lowe then partnered ''Home and Away'' actor Tim Campbell, and, in 2008, partnered boxer Dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics At The Summer Olympics
Athletics has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics. The athletics program traces its earliest roots to events used in the ancient Greek Olympics. The modern program includes track and field events, road running events, and race walking events. Cross country running was also on the program in earlier editions but it was dropped after the 1924 Summer Olympics. Summary Events The events contested have varied widely. From 1900 to 1920, tug of war was considered to be part of the Olympic athletics programme, although the sports of tug of war and athletics are now considered distinct. Men's events No new events have been added to the men's athletics programme since the 1952 addition of the short racewalk. The roster of events has not changed since then, with the exception of the omission of the long racewalk in 1976 (the IAAF held a 50 km walk World Championships that year instead and as a resu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Shirvington
Matt Shirvington (born 25 October 1978) is an Australian athlete and television presenter who held the Australian 100m national sprint title from 1998 to 2002. Shirvington is the third fastest Australian sprinter of all time. He qualified for the 100m semi-finals in Sydney 2000, finishing 5th. Shirvington is currently a sport presenter on '' Seven News Sydney'' and host of ''Sydney Weekender.'' Athletics Shirvington generally competed in the 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay events, finding the most success in the 100m sprint. He competed in the 2000 Olympic Games, the Athletics World Championships from 1999 to 2007 and the Commonwealth Games in 1998 and 2006. From 1998 Shirvington claimed five consecutive Australian national titles for the 100m sprint event. At the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, he broke the Australian national 100m record, finishing fourth in the final with a time of 10.03 seconds. Shirvington held the record until Patrick Johnson recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrina Warren
Dr Katrina Louise Warren (born 8 December 1967) is an Australian veterinarian, best known as the co-host of several popular television programs on Channel 7. Career After working as a fashion model in Japan, Warren first appeared on television screens in the Ten Network's children's program '' Totally Wild'' in 1994. Warren is best known for her appearances from 1997 on the Seven Network family show '' Harry's Practice'' as a resident vet. She was the star of "Beverly Hills Vet" a show produced by Animal Planet in 2003. She also appeared in 2004 as a contestant on Australia's ''Dancing with the Stars''. Warren also presented on the Channel Seven lifestyle show ''Melbourne Weekender'' with Jo Silvagni. From 2008 to 2010, Warren worked as a host of the TV Show ''Housecat Housecall ''Housecat Housecall'' is a weekly 30-minute television program that aired on Animal Planet in the United States and Australia. The show was broadcast from June 7, 2008 to July 10, 2010. It was ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabrielle Richens
Gabrielle Richens (born 14 September 1974) is a British model and television presenter. She was born in Kent of British, Indian and Chinese descent, although her parents are from South Africa. Richens has worked as a model since she was fifteen when she was discovered while shopping on King's Road. Thereafter, she signed with the Elite modeling agency. She was nicknamed "The Pleasure Machine" after an airline commercial she appeared in. She has risen to fame in particular in Australia. Modeling career Richens captured the eye of the Australian public and rode the wave of popularity generated from her relationship with professional rugby league footballer Solomon Haumono, eventually leading to an appearance in ''Ralph'' magazine. Richens then posed nude for Australian ''Black+White'' magazine as well as the March 1999 Australian ''Playboy'' edition. She returned to the United Kingdom at the end of 2001. Richens placed in the UK edition of FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Tomkins (rower)
James Bruce Tomkins, (born 19 August 1965) is an Australian rower, seven-time World Champion and a three-time Olympic gold medalist. He is Australia's most awarded oarsman, having made appearances at six Olympic games (for three gold and one bronze medal); eleven World Championships (for seven world titles including one in each of the five sweep oar events); four Rowing World Cups (for two titles) and eighteen state representative King's Cup appearances – the Australian blue riband men's VIII event, (for fifteen victories, ten as stroke). Tomkins is one of only five Australian athletes and four rowers worldwide to compete at six Olympics. From 1990 to 1998 he was the stroke of Australia's prominent world class crew – the coxless four known as the Oarsome Foursome. Club and state rowing Tomkins took up rowing at Carey Baptist Grammar School. He stroked the Carey First VIII in both of his senior years, 1982 and 1983. His long senior club career was with the Mercantile Rowing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
