I’m so surprised they can pull out a cast this good more than 20 years into the franchise. I know every single one of them - even the sports people. Lisa and Ant are great gets for them, as in Ben. Nadia is sure to generate headlines whether people love or hate her. Can’t wait to see who out of them can actually dance, and I’m even more excited to see which ones of them can’t.
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Surprising stars fill the floor
Unexpected celebrities frock up for Dancing With The Stars
The Seven Network today unveiled the star-studded cast of the sparkling new season of Dancing With The Stars, coming soon to Channel 7 and 7plus.
AFL legend Ben Cousins, SAS Australia Chief Instructor Ant Middleton, and chef Julie Goodwin will be strutting their stuff on the dancefloor in the new series, which sees the most unexpected celebrities pushed outside their comfort zones as they learn to dance.
Joining them on the dancefloor will be four-time TV WEEK Gold Logie winning actress Lisa McCune, fashion designer and model Nadia Bartel, Home and Away hunk James Stewart, and Better Homes and Gardens resident DIY guru Adam Dovile.
Olympian and former senator Nova Peris will be putting her best foot forward alongside AFL royalty Shane Crawford and comedian Nikki Osborne as they compete for their chosen charity and the prized Dancing With The Stars Mirror Ball Trophy.
Also perfecting their Foxtrot and Samba will be singing sensation Samantha Jade and chef Hayden Quinn.
Sonia Kruger will be joined by Dr Chris Brown as hosts, while the stars fall under the watchful eye of the Dancing With The Stars judges: Craig Revel Horwood, Sharna Burgess, Helen Richey and Mark Wilson.
The Dancing With The Stars 2024 line-up:
- Adam Dovile – Better Homes and Gardens DIY presenter
- Ant Middleton – SAS Australia Chief Instructor
- Ben Cousins – AFL legend and 7NEWS Sport presenter
- Hayden Quinn – Chef
- James Stewart – Home and Away Actor
- Julie Goodwin – Chef
- Lisa McCune – Actor
- Nadia Bartel – Fashion designer and model
- Nikki Osborne – Comedian
- Nova Peris – Olympian and former senator
- Samantha Jade – Singer
- Shane Crawford – AFL royalty
Dancing With The Stars is produced by BBC Studios Australia and New Zealand from a format created by the BBC and distributed by BBC Studios.
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Actually…
- Forensic Investigators
- Sea Patrol
- Reef Doctors
- How to Stay Married
- Tons of musicals given she’s a performing arts actress
So not really a one-hit wonder, even if you think some of the above shows weren’t hits.
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A few of Seven’s internal selections are questionable, you wonder if to extract more value out of contracts and/or push their image or shows, such as BH&G’s Adam Doville or H&A’s James Stewart or to a lesser extent SAS’ Ant Middleton.
I get where David was coming from but yeah we have to remember how massive McCune was in the 90s and even early 2000s post her infamous Heelers exit, Logies and other stuff she did for Seven before her Nine era.
From your list, definitely SP and the theatre productions the most notable or known outside Sr Const Maggie Doyle IMO.
It’s going to be impossible for any actor to match Blue Heelers which was the number one show on television for years but she has a strong track record for other television, film and thetere roles.
Lisa is extremely popular and her name attached to a theatre show guarantees big sales in tickets.
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Perhaps they should’ve courted Sonia Kruger as a contesta…oh wait.
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Good mix of dancers. Probably the only one I’m not fussed about is Nadia Bartel. Thank goodness they didn’t describe her as an influencer. Lisa McCune looks stunning.
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Why do I feel like Shane Crawford has been in it before. Prob cause he’s been on every celebrity show in Australia… Next fboy island?
Watching for Lisa McCune alone. In the Blue Heelers days she really was the nation’s sweetheart and I remember the buzz when her character was killed. Excellent cast here
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I know Seven is the AFL broadcaster, but thought it was interesting to include 3 people with AFL connections, but no one with NRL connections to increase appeal in the northern states.
4 consecutive Gold Logies is nothing to be sneezed at, and that was in the days before the networks and their social media campaigns for Gold.
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But there was that conspiracy theory at the time about her partner owning a newsagency
You trying to be funny again? Give it up, mate. 
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It’s amazing how that was barely at the turn of the new millennium yet still seems so fresh in memory, even before Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Caroline Craig (Sgt Tess Gallagher), despite her’s and the screenwriters’ best efforts, were never really able to replicate McCune’s aura. They also made Gallagher a higher rank (on par with William McInnes’ Sgt Nick Schultz) which obviously affected character development and storylines. She did go onto some post-Heelers success though, including voice-over artist for Nine’s Underbelly and ads including coincidentally Victoria Police more recently.
Look it up
So owning a newsagency gave him the opportunity to order thousands of copies of TV Week and spend days filling out thousands of Logie Award coupons.
This week’s issue of Who and New Idea magazines both have the line ups of the new season. New Idea apparently got the names from “sources”. I wonder if Seven announced the list last night to prevent the leak?
TV Week has the full cast list too. I’d say Seven had supplied the list to the mags last week.
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it was always going to be released last weekend. It got put off a day for Sunrise to get the exclusive.
Nova Peris is an interesting choice. She is chairperson of the Australian Republic Movement with Craig Foster.