Dancing With The Stars: All Stars 2022 - Meet the hosts and judges

Dancing With The Stars Australia: All Stars has so far had 17 seasons - the first 7 of which featured a judging panel of Todd McKenney, Paul Mercurio, Helen Richey and Mark Wilson. 

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This Judging panel will be returning for this years season of Dancing With The Stars: All Stars, along with the dynamic hosting duo that is Daryl Somers and Sonia Kruger. 

Hosts

Sonia Kruger

Kruger is one of Australia's most recognised faces, she is a well known presenter, actress, dancer, interviewer and entertainer. Sonia has hosted a plethora of major TV series, including The Voice and Big Brother. 

Daryl Somers

Australian TV legend, musician and a triple Gold Logie award winner, Daryl Somers is best known as the host of long-running comedy show Hey Hey Its Saturday. Part of the industry for over 50 years, Somers has hosted many genres of Television, such as kid's shows, game shows, pop music shows and light entertainment programs. 

Judges

Todd McKenney

Regarded as one of Australia's most versatile performing artists, McKenney has entertained Australians for over 30 years, acting and leading song and dance theatre productions. Todd has been dancing for most of his life, going on to represent Australia in ballroom and Latin American dancing. His most notable role is Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, in which he performed in over 1000 shows. 

Helen Richey

Dubbed with the title "Australia's First Lady of Latin", Helen Richey is the country's most successful professional Latin dancer. She was a runner up in the UK professional Latin championship and placed third at three international events. After retiring from competitive dancing, Richey has comfortable slipped into the title of one of the world's leading coaches and sought-after adjudicators. 

Paul Mercurio

Mercurio has been a dancer for the majority of his life, joining an amateur theatre group at the age of 13. He has toured globally as a performer and choreographer for the Sydney Dance Company. He then founded the Australian Dance Ensemble in 1992. He played a lead role and contributed highly to the choreography of Strictly Ballroom and choreographed a number of other feature films. 

Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson has been given the title of Australian Dancesport champion 5 times and competed throughout the UK, Europe and Japan. He has adjudicated in most major championships in Australis, and runs the largest dance studio across dancesport and theatrical dance in Queensland. Wilson is well known for his honesty and energy, and has trained numerous future champions, including his own children, who have all gone on to find international success. 

This season, the judges handed out 9 perfect scores and 56 10's, and the show took 2,360 collective rehearsal hours to complete. 

Tune in to Channel Seven or 7Plus on Sunday, February 20 to catch the premiere of Dancing With The Stars: All Stars.