Dancing with the Stars (season 2)

Season two of the 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. Tom Bergeron returned as host while Samantha Harris replaced Lisa Canning as co-host. Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli returned as judges.

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).

The winners of this season were Kelly Ripa and Tony Dovolani.

This season was preceded by Season 1 and followed by Season 3.

Couples
The ten celebrities and professional dance partners 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.

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

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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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Dance 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