RTE viewers were all left overjoyed as Dancing With The Stars had its fan “favourite” movie week tonight.
The hit RTE show returned tonight with 10 celebrities all hoping to impress judges and viewers by dancing to their favourite movies.
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Rhys McClenaghan topped the leaderboard tonight[/caption]
Tonight was movie week on Dancing With The Stars, which saw the celebrities dance to some of their favourite movies in hopes to make it through to next week’s show.
Kicking off the night was Aishah Akorede and her pro dancer Robert Rowiński.
The pair danced a sultry Cha Cha Cha to Rescue Me from the movie Sister Act – receiving a final score of 24.
They were followed by an energetic American Smooth performed by Gearóid Farrelly and his pro partner Stephen Vincent.
Gearóid was firmly in charcter as the artful dodger from Oliver, which nabbed them a final score of 22.
Next up was lip syncing sensation Kayleigh Trappe, who rocked the audience and viewers with her Aristocrats performance of a Quickstep.
Their song of choice was the Aristocrats theme which bagged them a final score of 21.
Jack Woolley frightened viewers with his Tango to a song by Lady Gaga from Joker: folie à deux.
Jack came in with a terrific final score from the judges of 23.
Ireland’s favourite weather woman, Joanna Donnelly and her pro partner Maciej Zieba stepped out tonight for a ballroom dance.
Joanne floated as she did her ballroom jig to Mrs Robinson from the movie The Graduate.
Next was Elaine Crowley and her dance partner Denys Samson, who brought the camp and volume with their rendition of You Can’t Stop The Beat from Hairspray.
Their energetic jive gave her a final judge score of 18.
Mrs Brown’s Boys star Danny O’Carroll gave a jaw-dropping performance as he embodied a Gladiator hunk from the movie Gladiator.
They knocked out a Pasodoble to the song that had them come in with a score of 25.
FLYING HIGH
Coming in high from all nine’s last week was Yasmin Seky and her partner Simone Arena.
They embodied characters from the popular Disney movie Moana and knocked it out of the park with their Contemporary Ballroom.
Yasmin’s dance set to How Far I’ll Go came in with a score of 26 from the judges.
Thundering onto the screen next was Kevin Dundon as Shrek where he danced to the song I’m A Believer.
BIG BELIEVER
His Jive received mixed reviews from each judge as he scored a respectable 8.
Rounding off the performances tonight was Olympian Rhys McClenaghan with his partner Laura Nolan.
Rhys’ performance came in just one score off a near perfect 30, as he and Laura finished with two 10s and a 9, getting 29.
RTE viewers flocked to social media to share their love for Movie Week and raved about the standard of each dance.
As tonight’s show began, One viewer tweeted: “My favourite week on #DWTSIRL has arrived!“
Liam wrote: “The standard is so high tonight! Love Movie week!”
Another viewer calling out some low scoring said: “Scores not exactly reflecting the feedback.”
