Dancing with the Stars (Greek TV series) season 5

Dancing with the Stars is a Greek reality show airing on ANT1 and filming live in Athens. Returned for its fifth season on October 26, 2014 from ANT1 TV channel. The show is based on the United Kingdom BBC Television series Strictly Come Dancing and is part of BBC Worldwide's Dancing with the Stars franchise. The theme song is "It's personal" performed by Swedish indie pop band The Radio Dept.

The host of this season will be Doukissa Nomikou. Giannis Latsios, Alexis Kostalas, Galena Velikova and Katia Dandoulaki returned as the judges of the show. Lakis Gavalas is the fifth judge in fifth season of the show.

The celebrities who were competed this season were 8 women and 6 men; Christina Aloupi, Maria Iliaki, Nikoleta Karra, Niki Kartsona, Morfoula Ntona, Eirini Papadopoulou, Thalia Prokopiou, Elisavet Spanou, Theoxaris Ioannidis, Fanis Lampropoulos, Thanos Petrelis, Christos Spanos, Triantafyllos and Thanasis Viskadourakis. The professional partners were revealed on October 22, 2014.

The premiere of the show the 14 couples danced for the first time 14 different dances.

After the 3rd live Kartsona's partner left the show for personal reasons and his place was taken by Vladimir Morotsko who had just left the actress Thalia Prokopiou in 3rd live.

In week 6 the ten couples were divided into five groups. The two couples each group danced the same dance and one of the two couples received two extra points. If both had ties going through one point.

In week 7 the couples danced to songs of their choice. At the end of the evening one of the couples would win immunity and will be excluded from the process of withdrawal from next week. Also in the 7 week there was redundancy.

In 10th live Nikoleta Karra did not dance because of her partner's accident.

In 11th live two couples did not dance, Theocharis Ioannidis due to professional obligations and Christos Spanos because of an accident he had, leading to his withdrawal. Αlso in 11th live could not dance again the Nikoletta Karra's partner could not dance again and was replaced by Alexandros Papadopoulos.

Judges

 * Alexis Kostalas, announcer, sports commentator
 * Galena Velikova, choreographer, dancer, dance teacher. Galena has also been a judge at Dancing Stars, the Bulgarian version of the show, for seasons 1&3.
 * Giannis Latsios, ANT1 television program manager
 * Katia Dandoulaki, actress
 * Lakis Gavalas, Fashion designer

Scoring chart

 * Red numbers indicate the lowest score for each week
 * Green numbers indicate the highest score for each week
 * the couple got the lowest score of the night and was eliminated that week
 * the couple eliminated that week
 * the returning couple finishing in the bottom two
 * the couple danced, but not scored
 * this couple withdrew from the competition
 * the winning couple
 * the runner-up couple
 * the third-place couple
 * the couple did not dance this week


 * In 12th live Theoxaris & Anastasia were deducted four points off their two dances on the scoring chart because they did not dance on the previous live.

Average score chart
This table only counts for dances scored on a traditional 50-points scale.

Couples' highest and lowest scoring dances
According to the traditional 50-point scale:

Weekly scores
Unless indicated otherwise, individual judges scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Alexis Kostalas, Galena Velikova, Giannis Latsios, Katia Dandoulaki and Lakis Gavalas.

Week 1

 * Running order

Week 2

 * Running order

Week 3

 * Running order

Week 4: Greek night

 * Running order

Week 5: Movie night

 * Running order

Week 6: Duel night

 * Running order

Week 7: Favorite song

 * This week the couple with the highest combined score from judges and viewers got immunity and was safe for next week.
 * There was no elimination this week.


 * Running order

Week 8

 * Nomikou announced during the live show that Morfoula, who won the immunity the previous week, was not going to get scored for her dance.


 * Running order

Week 9: Christmas show

 * All the couples competed in a Christmas Swing Marathon. The winner couple took 5 extra points from the judges while the rest couples didn't get scored.


 * Running order

Week 10: New Year's Eve show

 * Running order

Week 11: Instant Dance Challenge

 * Running order

Week 12: Iconic dance night

 * Running order

Week 13: Semi-Finals (Solo & Trio challenge)

 * For the trio challenge the couples were partnered with a previous season. The couples chose their third partner by drawing envelopes at the end of the show of week 12. Ntona danced with Pantazi (season 4), Papadopoulou danced with Stikoudi (season 4) & Karra danced with Synatsaki (season 4).
 * Running order

Week 14: Finals

 * Running order

Dance chart

 * Week 1: 14 different dances (Cha-cha-cha, Bachata, Salsa, Tango, Samba, Waltz, Viennese Waltz, Foxtrot, Jive, Paso Doble, Argentine tango, Quickstep, Mambo, Rumba)
 * Week 2: 7 different dances (Cha-cha-cha, Foxtrot, Jive, Argentine tango, Bachata, Paso Doble, Viennese Waltz)
 * Week 3: 10 different dances (Paso Doble, European tango, Quickstep, Cha-cha-cha, Argentine tango, Mambo, Viennese Waltz, Foxtrot, Jive, Salsa)
 * Week 4: Greek night (Freestyle)
 * Week 5: Movie night (Quickstep, Viennese Waltz, Jive, Argentine tango, Paso Doble)
 * Week 6: Duel night (Paso Doble, Salsa, Foxtrot, Mambo, Viennese Waltz)
 * Week 7: Favorite song (Lambada, Contemporary, Paso Doble & Contemporary, Foxtrot, Bollywood, Merengue & Disco, Rumba)
 * Week 8: 8 different dances (Salsa, Paso Doble, Quickstep, Mambo, Argentine tango, Cha-cha-cha, Bachata, Jive)
 * Week 9: Freestyle & Christmas Swing Marathon (Christmas show)
 * Week 10: 1st dance (Paso Doble, Samba, Quickstep, Viennese Waltz, Argentine tango, Rumba) & Freestyle
 * Week 11: 4 different dances (Quickstep, Foxtrot, Samba, Viennese Waltz) & Instant Dance (Cha-cha-cha, Argentine tango, Quickstep, Jive)
 * Week 12: 4 different dances (Paso Doble, Quickstep, Rumba, Samba) & Iconic dance night (Contemporary, Viennese Waltz, Paso Doble, Freestyle)
 * Week 13: Semi-Finals (Solo & Trio challenge), Solo (Freestyle) & Trio challenge (Paso Doble, Argentine tango, Samba)
 * Week 14: Finals (1st part: Quickstep, European tango), (2nd part: Cha-cha-cha) & Dance-off (Freestyle)


 * Highest scoring dance
 * Lowest scoring dance
 * Danced, but not scored
 * Eliminated for this week
 * Returning for the bottom two
 * Withdrew from the competition
 * Gained bonus points for this dance
 * Highest score of the week and won immunity for next week
 * Not danced