Country of origin United States Original network ABC Professional winner Peta Murgatroyd | No. of episodes 20 Celebrity winner Donald Driver | |
Original release March 19 (2012-03-19) – May 22, 2012 (2012-05-22) | ||
Season fourteen of Dancing with the Stars premiered on March 19, 2012. Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke Charvet returned as hosts, while Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli all returned as judges. The Harold Wheeler orchestra and singers provided the music throughout the season.
Contents
- Couples
- Scoring chart
- Averages
- Overview
- Highest and lowest scoring performances
- Couples highest and lowest scoring dances
- Weekly scores and songs
- Week 1 First Dances
- Week 2
- Week 3 Most Memorable Year Week
- Week 4 Rock Week
- Week 5 Latin Night
- Week 6 Motown Special
- Week 7 Classical Night
- Week 8 Trio Challenge
- Week 9 Semifinals
- Week 10 Finale
- Dance chart
- Criticism
- References
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Donald Driver won the competition over British classical crossover singer Katherine Jenkins and Cuban-American Telenovela star William Levy, who took 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Driver is also the third NFL player (including retired) to win, after Emmitt Smith won season three and Hines Ward won season twelve.
Couples
The 12 celebrities and professional dancers who competed were:
Scoring chart
Red numbers indicates the lowest score for each week. Green numbers indicates the highest score for each week. indicates the couple eliminated that week. indicates the returning couple that finished in the bottom two. indicates the returning couple that was the last to be called safe. indicates the winning couple. indicates the runner-up couple. indicates the third-place couple.Averages
This table only counts for dances scored on a traditional 30-points scale (the scores for the Motown Marathon from week 6 are not included).
Overview
All the professionals from season 13 returned—except for Lacey Schwimmer, who was replaced by Chelsie Hightower. Two new professionals were added into the Dance Troupe: Henry Byalikov and Emma Slater. They joined Sharna Burgess, Kiki Nyemchek, Oksana Dmyrtenko, and Sasha Farber.
There was one dance for each finalist that they did not perform: Donald Driver did not perform the salsa, William Levy did not perform the waltz, and Katherine Jenkins did not perform an individual tango (Jenkins only did the tango for team dances in week seven).
Starting the week of April 16, 2012 and for the next two weeks after that, the bottom two couples, after a combination of judges scores and viewer votes, competed in a dance-duel. Both couples performed at the same time and then the judges decided who left the competition that week.
This season introduced "Ballroom Battles" where Cheryl Burke, Mark Ballas, Louis Van Amstel, Lacey Schwimmer, Karina Smirnoff and Tony Dovolani chose a pair of amateur dancers and trained them to compete against other amateur couples. The teams of Burke, Dovolani and van Amstel competed in the final stage by performing a Jive. Burke's team were named champions by the judges with Dovolani's and van Amstel's teams taking second and third places respectively.
Highest and lowest scoring performances
The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' 30-point scale are as follows:
Jack Wagner, Sherri Shepherd & Roshon Fegan are the only stars to not land on this list.
Couples' highest and lowest scoring dances
According to the traditional 30-point scale:
Weekly scores and songs
Unless indicated otherwise, individual judges scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1: First Dances
Week 2
Week 3: Most Memorable Year Week
Week 4: Rock Week
Week 5: Latin Night
Week 6: Motown Special
Week 7: Classical Night
Week 8: Trio Challenge
All six couples chose one professional that was either previously eliminated or participates in the dance troupe, to perform with them in their Latin routine in an event known as the "Trio Challenge".
Week 9: Semifinals
Week 10: Finale
Dance chart
The celebrities and professional partners danced one of these routines for each corresponding week:
Criticism
Eddie Trunk has criticized the way rock music was portrayed when Kiss performed on the show.