Dancing with the Stars - Season 2

Dancing with the Stars - Season 2

Season 2

The second season of the U.S. edition of Dancing with the Stars premiered on the ABC network on January 5, 2006, and ended February 24, 2006. This season expanded to ten couples from six in the previous season. Season two expanded each program from an hour to 90 minutes, and added an hour-long results show the following night. Two couples were declared safe in an earlier portion of the show, the remaining couples were then named off until only the bottom two were left.
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Episodes16
DatesJan 5, 2006 - Feb 26, 2006
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Episodes

Round 1
Season 2Episode 1120 min

Round 1

Meet the new celebrity dance contestants and their professional dance partners. The women perform the Waltz and the men perform the Cha Cha.
Jan 5, 2006
Round 1 results
Season 2Episode 2120 min

Round 1 results

Kenny Mayne & dance partner Andrea Hale are voted of the show. Burt Bacharach performs.
Jan 6, 2006
Round 2
Season 2Episode 3120 min

Round 2

With one couple out of the game , the other nine couples perform the Quickstep and Rumba.
Jan 12, 2006
Round 2 results
Season 2Episode 4120 min

Round 2 results

Tatum O'Neal was the next star voted out. Jesse McCartney performs.
Jan 13, 2006
Round 3
Season 2Episode 5120 min

Round 3

The eight remaining celebrities must dance the Jive and the Tango in order not to be the next ones sent home.
Jan 19, 2006
Round 3 results
Season 2Episode 6120 min

Round 3 results

Giselle Fernandez and Jonathan Roberts are voted off the show. The Style Elements Crew performs.
Jan 20, 2006
Round 4
Season 2Episode 7120 min

Round 4

Tonight's featured dances were the Foxtrot and the Paso Doble. According to judge Len Goodman, the Foxtrot should be an elegant dance filled with gentle rises and falls. The Paso Doble is the most theatrical dance in ballroom, best known thanks to the fantastic film, Strictly Ballroom. In the Paso Doble, the man must portray the arrogant, macho matador and the woman acts as his cape.
Jan 26, 2006
Round 4 results
Season 2Episode 8120 min

Round 4 results

Master P and Ashly Delgrosso are voted off the show finally. The Pussycat Dolls strutted their stuff singing their hit single, "Don't Cha." They treated viewers to a performance of their single "Sway," as professional dancers Jonathan Roberts and Anna Trebunskaya danced the Cha Cha.
Jan 27, 2006
Round 5
Season 2Episode 9120 min

Round 5

With P. Miller out of the game the real competion begins. Each team must perform two dances each - individual couple Sambas and then a Group Salsa.
Feb 2, 2006
Round 5 results
Season 2Episode 10120 min

Round 5 results

The dancing couple of Tia Carrere & Maksim Chmerkovskiy are voted out of the competion. Barry Manilow performed three songs. The 2005 World Mambo champions perform.
Feb 3, 2006
Round 6
Season 2Episode 11120 min

Round 6

With Tia out now, the five remaining stars must again learn two dance routines in order to maintain their shot at the trophy. They perform the Jive, Tango, Paso Doble, Quickstep, and the Rumba.
Feb 9, 2006
Round 6 results
Season 2Episode 12120 min

Round 6 results

Former Righteous Brother Bill Medley will be performing his Oscar-winning hit "(I've Had) The Time of Life" from the movie "Dirty Dancing," Medley will be joined by his daughter, McKenna Medley, as professional dancers Cheryl Burke and Tony Dovolani recreate Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey's memorable routine. In addition, backed by a choir, New Zealand born Natasha Bedingfield will dazzle us with a performance of her latest single, "Unwritten." And though he may be out of the competition, Maksim Chmerkovskiy's dance teachings live on in a performance by his students - Sergey Onik, Michelle Glazarov, Valeria Kazherinova, Nicole Volynets, Valentin Chmerkivskiy and Boris Leokumovich -- who will be dancing the Jive to "Mambo #5."
Feb 10, 2006
Round 7
Season 2Episode 13120 min

Round 7

George Hamilton has left the floor. The final four couples must battle it out in the semifinals with two dances they've never done before. Who will make it to the finals?
Feb 16, 2006
Round 7 results
Season 2Episode 14120 min

Round 7 results

Lisa Rinna & Louis van Amstel are voted off the show. Michael Bublé performs "For Once in My Life" and "The Way You Look Tonight." This week he serenades audiences on the "Dancing with the Stars" stage with his rendition of "Save the Last Dance for Me" from his latest album, "It's Time," as professional dancers Alec Mazo and Edyta Sliwinska dance the cha cha. He also accompanies professional dancers Nick Kosovich and Andrea Hale who dance the foxtrot as he sings "Moondance" off his highly successful sophomore album, "Come Fly with Me." Host Tom Bergeron will join Master P's former partner, Ashly Delgrosso, in a heroic attempt at the quickstep.
Feb 17, 2006
Final Round
Season 2Episode 15120 min

Final Round

With Lisa Rinna out, the other three stars are left to battle it out in the finals. Each couple must dance two dances, which will include a freestyle dance. Also Samantha Harris Makes her Ballroom Dancing Debut.
Feb 23, 2006
Season 2 Finale
Season 2Episode 16120 min

Season 2 Finale

Drew Lachey and Cheryl Burke are crowned Dancing with the stars champion. Also Mary J. Blige perfroms two of her hit singles and all the celebrity dancers are back to perform one last time.
Feb 26, 2006

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