Dancing with the Stars (Australian season 5)

Dancing with the Stars Season 5
Country of origin	Australia
No. of episodes	10
Release
Original network	Seven Network
Original release	26 September 2006 – 28 November 2006
Additional information
Celebrity winner	Anthony Koutoufides
Professional winner	Natalie Lowe

The fifth season of the Australian Dancing with the Stars TV series premiered on Tuesday 26 September 2006 and concluded on Tuesday 28 November 2006. A controversy occurred in the semi-final when judge Todd McKenney said that he believed Arianne Caoili had received professional dance lessons prior to the competition. Caoili denied this. Channel 7's Today Tonight supported McKenney's claims, producing video footage of Caoili attending salsa classes, but Caoili said she just started taking salsa lessons when the producers called to offer her a place on the show.

Anthony Koutoufides and his partner Natalie Lowe won the series, with Arianne Caoili and her partner Carmelo Pizzino as runner-up.

Couples

The following celebrities were featured.

Celebrity	Occupation / known for	Professional partner	Status
Fiona Falkiner	The Biggest Loser Australia contestant	Serghei Bolgarschii	Eliminated 1st on 3 October 2006
Tom Waterhouse	Businessman	Alana Patience	Eliminated 2nd on 10 October 2006
Kerry Armstrong	Actress	Christopher Ryan	Eliminated 3rd on 17 October 2006
Gary Sweet	Actor	Eliza Campagna	Eliminated 4th on 24 October 2006
Amanda Keller	WSFM 101.7 Presenter	Csaba Szirmai	Eliminated 5th on 31 October 2006
Chris Hemsworth	Actor	Abbey Ross	Eliminated 6th on 7 November 2006
Andrew Gaze	NBL player	Linda De Nicola	Eliminated 7th on 14 November 2006
Tamsyn Lewis	Olympic middle distance runner	Arsen Kishishian	Third place on 21 November 2006
Arianne Caoili	Chess player	Carmello Pizzino	Runners-up on 28 November 2006
Anthony "Kouta" Koutoufides	AFL player	Natalie Lowe	Winners on 28 November 2006

Scoring chart

Red numbers indicate the couples with the lowest score for each week.

Green numbers indicate the couples with the highest score for each week.

     indicates the couple (or couples) eliminated that week.

     indicates the returning couple that finished in the bottom two.

     indicates the couple withdrew from the competition.

     indicates the winning couple.

     indicates the runner-up couple.

     indicates the third-place couple.

Couple	Place	1	2	1+2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Kouta & Natalie	1st	27	27	54	29	32	26	37	37	39+38=77	39+39=78	37+37+40=114
Arianne & Carmello	2nd	32	33	65	33	35	27	36	38	38+37=75	40+40=80	40+38+40= 118
Tamsyn & Arsen	3rd	29	31	60	35	35	32	36	36	35+35=70	34+35=69
Andrew & Linda	4th	30	32	62	33	35	25	33	32	30+27=57
Chris & Abbey	5th	18	16	34	18	21	28	19	22
Amanda & Csaba	6th	19	16	35	19	18	29	19
Gary & Eliza	7th	19	17	36	19	18	15
Kerry & Christopher	8th	27	23	50	25	21
Tom & Alana	9th	28	25	53	23
Fiona & Serghei	10th	20	18	38

Dance Schedule

The celebrities and professional partners will dance one of these routines for each corresponding week.

• Week 1 : Cha-cha-cha or Waltz
• Week 2 : Quickstep or Rumba
• Week 3 : Jive or Tango
• Week 4 : Foxtrot or Paso doble
• Week 5 : Samba
• Week 6 : One unlearned Ballroom or Latin dance from weeks 1-5
• Week 7 : One unlearned Ballroom or Latin dance from weeks 1-6
• Week 8 : Two unlearned Ballroom or Latin dances from weeks 1-7
• Week 9 : Learned Ballroom or Latin dance from weeks 1-8 & Argentine Tango
• Week 10 : Two Favourite Dances of the Season & Freestyle

Dance Chart

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8		9		10
Kouta & Natalie	Waltz	Rumba	Tango	Paso Doble	Samba	Jive	Quickstep	Cha Cha Cha	Foxtrot	Waltz	Argentine Tango	Cha Cha Cha	Paso Doble	Freestyle
Arianne & Carmello	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot	Samba	Rumba	Tango	Paso Doble	Waltz	Tango	Argentine Tango	Quickstep	Jive	Freestyle
Tamsyn & Arsen	Waltz	Rumba	Tango	Foxtrot	Samba	Quickstep	Paso Doble	Cha Cha Cha	Jive	Paso Doble	Argentine Tango
Andrew & Linda	Waltz	Rumba	Tango	Paso Doble	Samba	Cha Cha Cha	Foxtrot	Quickstep	Jive
Chris & Abbey	Waltz	Rumba	Tango	Paso Doble	Samba	Foxtrot	Cha Cha Cha
Amanda & Csaba	Waltz	Rumba	Tango	Paso Doble	Samba	Quickstep
Gary & Eliza	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot	Samba
Kerry & Christopher	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot
Tom & Alana	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive
Fiona & Serghei	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep

     Highest Scoring Dance

     Lowest Scoring Dance

Average Chart

The average chart is based on the dances performed by the celebrities and not their place in the competition.

Rank by average	Place	Couple	Number Of Dances	Total Points Earned	Average
1	2	Arianne & Carmello	14	514	36.7
2	1	Kouta & Natalie		494	35.3
3	3	Tamsyn & Arsen	11	373	33.9
4	4	Andrew & Linda	9	286	31.8
5	9	Tom & Alana	3	76	25.3
6	8	Kerry & Christopher	4	96	24.0
7	5	Chris & Abbey	7	133	19.0
	10	Fiona & Serghei	2	38
9	6	Amanda & Csaba	6	112	18.7
10	7	Gary & Eliza	5	90	18.0

Preceded by Dancing with the Stars (Australian season 4)

Dancing with the Stars (Australian version) Season 5

Succeeded by Dancing with the Stars (Australian season 6)