Lisa McCune wins Dancing with the Stars
Logie winner takes out 2024 ballroom title over singer Samantha Jade.
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Lisa McCune has won Dancing with the Stars 2024, defeating singer Samantha Jade for the Mirror Ball Trophy.
SAS Australia‘s Ant Middleton came third.
A bumper five grand finalists –also including James Stewart & Nikki Osborne – performed their own Freestyle dance.
McCune drew perfect scores for her old-school Hollywood-inspired performance, which Helen Richey called the stand out performance of the night, while Nikki Osborne and James Stewart were subsequently eliminated.
The final three re-performed routines before the studio audience cast their final vote.
Final scores were:
Lisa McCune and Ian Waite: 40 + 39 = 79
Samantha Jade and Gustavo Viglio: 38 + 38 = 76
Ant Middleton and Alex Vladimirov: 34 + 36 = 70
Nikki Osborne and Aric Yegudkin: 31
James Stewart and Jorja Freeman: 30
$20,000 went to McCune’s chosen charities, the RCD Foundation and the Harrison Reidel Foundation.
“I’m so thrilled” she said, before praising her dancing partner Ian Waite.
Of her Mirror Ball Trophy to added to her accolades, she joked: “It will keep my Logies company.”
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6 Responses
Lisa McCune did what a singer named Jason Owen didn’t do – beat Samantha Jade in a reality competition!
Boxing places judges on all 4 sides of the ring, so nothing can be missed. Is it time DWTS did something similar ??
This season of Dancing With the Stars was amazing. Very happy that Lisa won. Always been a fan of Lisa since her days as Maggie Doyle in Blue Heelers. I thought that Lisa and Samantha Jade were the best dancers in the competition.. Congratulations Lisa for winning the mirror ball trophy.
Nice to see the best dancers in the final. Great show. Pity it ended way too soon. Another couple of weeks would’ve been nice.
My comment from June 26: ” Would we say two people have an advantage…Lisa McCune being a musical theatre performer and Samantha Jade is likely to have had singing and dancing lessons as a youngster”. Do I win anything?
No 🙂 ….. there are different styles of dance ……. we all would love to have seen Lisa McCune do a hip hop performance ….. the show needs to be live ….