Dancing with the Stars (season 2)

Season two of the Dancing with the Stars (U.S. edition) 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. All the professionals dancers from season one, with the exception of Alec Mazo and Charlotte Jørgensen, were a part of season two.

Season two expanded each program from an hour to 90 minutes, and added an hour-long results show the following night (in the first season no couples were eliminated in the first week; the first couple was eliminated at the end of the second episode, the second couple at the end of the third episode, and so on). 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 (the last two couples had the lowest amount of votes, with the exception of week seven, where the show explicitly stated that the order of all but the eliminated couple was random).

Couples
The ten professionals and celebrities that competed were:

Average chart
This table only counts for dances scored on a traditional 30-point scale.

Highest and lowest scoring performances
The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' 30-point scale are as follows:

Couples' highest and lowest scoring performances
According to the traditional 30-point scale.

Week 1

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Week 2

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Week 3

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Week 4

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Week 5

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Week 6

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Week 7

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Week 8

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Dancing chart
Week 1: Cha-cha-cha or Waltz Week 2: Rumba or Quickstep Week 3: Jive or Tango Week 4: Paso doble or Foxtrot Week 5: Samba & group Salsa Week 6: One unlearned dance & group Viennese Waltz Week 7: One unlearned ballroom & Latin dance Finals: Favorite dance, freestyle, & randomly chosen dance