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Manu wins Dancing with the Stars

My Kitchen Rules judge Manu Feildel has won Dancing with the Stars 2011 beating Hayley Bracken and Damien Leith.

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My Kitchen Rules judge Manu Feildel has won Dancing with the Stars 2011.

Feildel beat out Hayley Bracken for the 2011 title in a 3 hour live finale on Seven.

Singer Damien Leith was eliminated mid-way through the show leaving a contest between the French chef and the wife of former Australian cricketer Nathan Bracken, a series contestant himself.

But in the final dances Bracken’s freelance performance didn’t connect with the judges as well as Feildel, scoring 8s and 9s to his perfect 10s.

The win for Feildel is the seventh time a Channel Seven star has taken out the title.

Feildel, whose popularity had continued to grow from My Kitchen Rules and Dancing will next host a new dating series for Seven, Dinner Date.

The eleventh season of Dancing with the Stars showed the variety / reality show still has life, delivering strong ratings and plenty of media including for contestants Brynne Edelsten, Lara Bingle and new judge Josh Horner.

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  1. The smugonaut wins! Haven’t watched this show since the very first series. Caught 5 minutes of it last night and was appalled that Manu had gotten so far. It looked like someone had left the trouser hanger in his pants (or something sharper).

  2. @Beth, DWTS has long been a worldwide ratings phenomenon screening in God knows how many countries. It consistently rates well here, so it still has plenty of life left in it. I don’t think it will be disappearing from our screens anytime soon. If Seven dumps it, Nine will swoop upon it in a nanosecond. Australia has a very small pool of available “celebs” at any one time, hence they are allowing WAGs, gossip column fodder and people with prior dance training onto the show. Because it raises the profiles of participants so well, I’m willing to bet every actors agent and modelling agency in the country submits CV’s of their clients to Seven for consideration before each season’s casting starts.

  3. Manu deserved his win. He has always wanted to be a contestant before he joined 7. The thing is he had more public support than Haly did.

    For the first time though the best 3 dancers in the comp battled it out for the win. Its a shame Damien got booted out first.

    Well done Alana for her 2nd win and no doubt she will be back for the hatrick.

  4. I had to go out so recorded the show. Very annoyed to see it went over time and I missed the end. Why do 7 advertise shows starting at a certain time ony to find out the previous show ran over 15 minutes, so the show I have recorded runs past the advertiused time. Not impressed with any of the commercial channels because if this. Get your act together and do the right thing by the viewers.

  6. I barely watched dancing with the stars this year (It’s always been torturous but I see parts) and I knew straight of that Manu was gonna be in the grand final….But congrats to him.

    I just wonder how many “Stars” is left in Australia to still call it “Dancing with the stars” I don’t think a past cricketers wife (Who actually had dancing experience) or a wife married to a Billionaire counts…

    Maybe other stars figured they have other more important things to do…And since so many 7 stars win the show they probably don’t bother and humiliate themselves. Don’t worry Dancing with the stars will eventually end soon to the inevitable.

  7. @bettestreep, yes you are right. Very few females have ever won DWTS, their track record for wins is very poor. Just shows how skewed the voting is towards male contestants, as I’d say it is primarily females who vote. I didn’t realise 7 out of 11 winners have been Seven personalities. Wow, that is very top heavy. The only non-Sevens I recall who’ve won are Kouta, Adam Brand, Kate Ceberano, and that actress from Mcleods Daughters.

    Congrats to Manu are in order. Even though he was not technically the best dancer (Hayley danced rings around him) he was clearly the crowd pleaser, so well done to him and Alana, on her second win in a row.

  8. Congratulations to Manu, he was entertaining and had loads of charisma. Remember it is not always the best dancer, but the most popular with viewers. People who don’t even watch the show should keep their opinions to themselves, as they have no idea what they’re talking about.

  9. it’s bloody rigged this show, that absolute and unashamed biased towards 7 stars.

    Look at all the previous winners, they have all been on 7 books.

    what a f*&^ load of sh!t this show is, get rid of it

    Thank devil it’s only once a year now LOL

  11. What a surprise!

    Another Seven personality wins DWTS!!!!

    Eleven seasons and this makes it the 7th Seven personality to win it!

    Bec Cartwright, Tom Williams, Ada Nicodemou, Grant Denyer, Luke Jacobz, Rob Palmer and now Manu!

    And I’m sure there might be a link between the other 4 winners and Seven – but right now I am just glad I didn’t watch the show.

  13. The show has absolutely no credibility.

    Rob Palmer ”beats” Tamare Jaber? …farcial

    Manu ‘beats’ Hayley, who Todd said was the best dancer the compettion has ever seen…travesty

    And don’t even get me startted on Adam Brand’s win…..

  14. The fix was in right at the casting stage. Manu is clearly the current ‘go-to’ guy for Seven programming & production execs.
    Apart from the dating show, I’ll bet you’ll see him in plenty of other projects or guest appearances apart from MKR over the next 12 mths until the next favourite arrives on the scene.
    Remember Tom Williams?

  15. If it was Flemington Haley’s partner would be in front of the stewards charged with pulling up the favourite when she was six lengths clear in the straight.

  16. Bad, bad production values again last night. Vision switcher errors, camera goofs (at one point the camera appeared to reverse over its own cable) , clumsy hosting – such a shame.

    Well done to Manu. But the real credit should not go to just Manu, or even Hayley. The professional dancers and exceptional band are what makes this show. They know what they are doing and are consummate professionals.

    Full marks to Alana Patience for winning her second consecutive year as the Dancing Queen. Alana had the misfortune to partner Molly Meldrum in Dancing’s earlier days. She rightly deserves this accolade now. Patience is a virtue, and a lovelier lady you could not meet.

  17. Manu has gone all smarmy since the show began, a shame when stars believe their own publicity.
    I would have love Damien to win this, but he doesn’t work for Channel 7 I guess…
    But as much as I whinge I still watch it so there you go…

  21. Masterchef was good tonight so I watched that. DWTS was better on Tuesdays with Daryl. Daryl went back to Nine for Hey Hey which should be back on Saturday nights and could have helped Nine to have won last week. Things will be different as next week there is no DWTS, In Their Footsteps or Hawaii 5 0. Tonight Nine had 2 repeats of the Mentalist. I am sure they will not do too well tonight. Either Sherlock or Underbelly will likely air in the 8:30pm timeslot. Thats my guess. Underbelly could go to Wednesday though.

  22. Didn’t think much of Josh the whole season but really warmed to him during the finale. All the judges seemed to be in a better mood which made it more enjoyable. This must be the first season that the elimination order hasn’t been completely weird. Glad Manu won. But another male? Women sure don’t do well in voter-run shows. Every season since 2008 has had atleast 2 men in the grand final one of which always wins.

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