This week’s Dancing With The Stars will see the annual staple of the competition - Dedicated Dance Night - take place.
The eight couples will take to the floor to perform a routine in tribute to a person, or people, who have made a major impact on their lives.
Former Miss World Rosanna Davison will dedicate her dance to her father, Chris de Burgh, who marks fifty years in the music industry this year. She will dance a rumba to his 1986 hit single Lady in Red alongside her pro dance partner, Stephen Vincent.
Wild Youth singer David Whelan will also honour his father. His dad Jim, himself a former dancer who competed and won competitions, still teaches ballroom and Latin dancing. David will dance a rumba with his partner Salome Chachua to the Sting classic Fields of Gold.
The Six O’Clock Show host Katja Mia and professional partner Ervinas Merfeldas will dance a tango to Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves by Annie Lennox and Aretha Franklin in honour of her own sisters, Andrea and Fiona Louise.
2FM DJ and Ireland’s Fittest Family presenter Laura Fox and her partner Denys Samson will celebrate Fox’s grandmother and biggest supporter, Nora AKA 'Nono’. The Galway native will perform a quickstep to Galway Girl by Sharon Shannon feat. Mundy.
Paralympic athlete Jason Smyth and Karen Byrne will dance a Viennese waltz to John Mayer’s Daughters, dedicated to Smyth’s own daughters, Evie and Lottie.
Former jockey Davy Russell and Kylee Vincent will perform a contemporary ballroom dance to Roar by Katy Perry in honour of Russell’s wife, Edelle.
Former RTÉ newsreader Eileen Dunne and professional dancer Robert Rowiński will dance in honour of Dunne's friend and former colleague, Mary Kennedy, to Proud Mary by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Drag queen Blu Hydrangea and their partner Simone Arena will honour the American drag legend, RuPaul. RuPaul crowned Blu Hydrangea the winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race: UK vs the World in 2022. Blu will honour their hero by dancing a paso doble to RuPaul’s hit Sissy That Walk.
None of the contestants will be eliminated from the show on Sunday night, however the couple who receive the highest combined points from the judges’ score and public vote will earn immunity from the following week’s first Dance-Off – the first Dance-Off of the season.
Dancing With The Stars, RTÉ One and RTÉ Player, Sundays 6.30pm.
