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<i>Dancing with the Stars: Juniors</i>

Dancing with the Stars: Juniors

2018 American television series

Dancing with the Stars: Juniors is an American children's dance competition television series that premiered on October 7, 2018, on ABC. It was a spin-off of the Dancing with the Stars series. The format of the show featured celebrity children (either in their own right or having celebrity parentage) paired with professional junior ballroom dancers and mentored by an adult professional dancer. The couples competed against each other by performing choreographed dance routines in front of a panel of judges.^[1] In September 2019, ABC cancelled the series after one season.^[2]

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Dancing with the Stars: Juniors

Genre	Reality competition
Based on	Dancing with the Stars
Presented by	Jordan Fisher Frankie Muniz
Judges	Valentin Chmerkovskiy Mandy Moore Adam Rippon
Narrated by	Alan Dedicoat
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	9
Production
Executive producers	Andrew Llinares Ashley Edens-Shaffer
Production locations	CBS Television City Los Angeles, California
Running time	40–86 minutes
Production company	BBC Studios
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	October 7 (2018-10-07) – December 9, 2018 (2018-12-09)
Related
Dancing with the Stars

Format

Like Dancing with the Stars, the scores used for eliminations were based 50% on the judges' scores and 50% on audience voting. Unlike the parent series, only studio audience members who are not family members during each week's episode were able to vote; there is no at-home voting. The team with the lowest total score after combining votes and judges' scores is eliminated.^[3]

Cast

Couples and mentors

On August 1, 2018, the junior professional dancers and adult mentors were revealed.^[4] On September 25, during the second episode of season 27 of Dancing with the Stars, the junior celebrities were announced.^[5]

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Cast of *Dancing with the Stars: Juniors*
Celebrity	Notability	Professional partner	Coach	Status	Ref.
Tripp Johnston Palin	Son of Bristol Palin & grandson of Sarah Palin	Hailey Bills	Jenna Johnson	Eliminated 1st on October 7, 2018	^[6]
Addison Osta Smith	MasterChef Junior winner	Lev Cameron Khmelev	Keo Motsepe	Eliminated 1st on October 7, 2018	^[6]
Hudson West	General Hospital actor	Kameron Couch	Hayley Erbert	Eliminated 3rd on October 14, 2018	^[7]
Sophia Pippen	Daughter of Scottie & Larsa Pippen	Jake Monreal	Sasha Farber	Eliminated 4th on October 21, 2018	^[8]
Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson	Here Comes Honey Boo Boo star	Tristan Ianiero	Artem Chigvintsev	Eliminated 5th on October 28, 2018	^[9]
Jason Maybaum	Raven's Home & Freaky Friday actor	Elliana Walmsley	Emma Slater	Eliminated 6th on November 11, 2018	^[10]
Akash Vukoti	Scripps National Spelling Bee participant	Kamri Peterson	Witney Carson	Eliminated 7th on November 18, 2018	^[11]
Mandla Morris	Son of Stevie Wonder & fashion designer	Brightyn Brems	Cheryl Burke	Eliminated 8th on November 25, 2018	^[12]
Miles Brown	Black-ish actor	Rylee Arnold	Lindsay Arnold	Runners-up on December 9, 2018	^[13]
Ariana Greenblatt	Stuck in the Middle actress	Artyon Celestine	Brandon Armstrong
Mackenzie Ziegler	Dancer, singer & actress	Sage Rosen	Gleb Savchenko
Sky Brown	Professional skateboarder	JT Church	Alan Bersten	Winners on December 9, 2018

Hosts and judges

Dancing with the Stars season 25 winner Jordan Fisher and finalist Frankie Muniz served as the hosts.^[14] Two-time professional champion Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Emmy winning choreographer Mandy Moore, and season 26 celebrity champion Adam Rippon served as the judges.^[15]

Dance troupe

The Dancing with the Stars: Juniors troupe consisted of Makeila Lawrence, Cody Bingham, Reese Hatala, Sebastian Jozuka, and Daniel Novikov. They were mentored by Dancing with the Stars troupe member Morgan Larson.^[16]^[17]

Scoring charts

The highest score each week is indicated in bold green. The lowest score each week is indicated in italicized red.

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Couple	Place	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	8+9
Sky & JT	1	22	22	24	26	23	29^{[lower-alpha 1]}	27	29+28=57	30+30=60^{[lower-alpha 1]}	117^{[lower-alpha 2]}
Miles & Rylee	2	22	24^{[lower-alpha 1]}	27^{[lower-alpha 1]}	27^{[lower-alpha 1]}	27	26	28^{[lower-alpha 1]}	28+30=58	28+30=58^{[lower-alpha 3]}	116^{[lower-alpha 4]}
Ariana & Artyon		24^{[lower-alpha 1]}	24^{[lower-alpha 1]}	25	22	28^{[lower-alpha 1]}	27	27	28+28=56^{[lower-alpha 3]}	30+28=58^{[lower-alpha 3]}	114^{[lower-alpha 3]}^{[lower-alpha 4]}
Mackenzie & Sage		22	24^{[lower-alpha 1]}	27^{[lower-alpha 1]}	25	27	27	26	30+30=60^{[lower-alpha 1]}	28+30=58^{[lower-alpha 3]}	118^{[lower-alpha 1]}^{[lower-alpha 4]}
Mandla & Brightyn	5	24^{[lower-alpha 1]}	22	21	23	25	27	24^{[lower-alpha 3]}^{[lower-alpha 5]}
Akash & Kamri	6	21	21	21	21^{[lower-alpha 3]}	20^{[lower-alpha 3]}	23^{[lower-alpha 3]}^{[lower-alpha 5]}
Jason & Elliana	7	18	21	22	25	25^{[lower-alpha 5]}
Honey Boo Boo & Tristan	8	19	19^{[lower-alpha 3]}	21	21^{[lower-alpha 3]}^{[lower-alpha 5]}
Sophia & Jake	9	21	20	19^{[lower-alpha 3]}^{[lower-alpha 5]}
Hudson & Kameron	10	22	22^{[lower-alpha 5]}
Tripp & Hailey	11	17^{[lower-alpha 5]}
Addison & Lev	11	15^{[lower-alpha 3]}^{[lower-alpha 5]}

This was the highest score of the night.
This couple finished in first place.
This was the lowest score of the night.
This couple finished in second place.
This couple was eliminated.

Weekly scores

Individual judges' scores in the chart below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Mandy Moore, Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Adam Rippon.

Week 1: First Dances

Each couple performed the cha-cha-cha, foxtrot, jive or salsa. Couples are listed in the order they performed.