After an almost immaculate run, Lisa McCune was crowned the winner of Dancing With The Stars 2024 on August 12 – however, she almost didn’t take part in the season.
Lisa and her partner Ian Waite narrowly beat out Samantha Jade and Gustavo Viglio. The actress received the Mirror Ball Trophy and $20,000 to donate to her charities of choice: the RCD Foundation and the Harrison Riedel Foundation.
The 2024 season marked Ian’s second time on Dancing With The Stars Australia, and he’s competed on seven seasons of the UK iteration, called Strictly Come Dancing. Despite competing in nine seasons of the dancing reality show, his time with Lisa was his first win of the series.
“What’s been the most incredible part has been Ian Waite and how thrilled he has been for the win because it’s his first,” Lisa gushed in a winner’s interview with Chattr.
“I’m so thrilled to be part of that. That’s been an absolute highlight for me,” she added.
Lisa McCune reveals her one condition for joining DWTS
Lisa told Chattr that she was initially nervous about joining Dancing With The Stars.
“My agent rang me about it towards the end of the year [in 2023],” she explained. “My first thought was, ‘Oh no, I don’t want to do it,’ and then she talked me through one of her other clients who had done it and had such a great time.”
The Gold Logie winner said that once she decided she was interested in taking part in the 2024 season, she told the series producer that she had a specific requirement before saying yes.
“I got on the phone to Peter Baker, who’s the series producer, who’s just a beautiful man,” she said.
“He’s been doing it a long time. I said, ‘Peter, the only thing if I do this is that I would have somebody [a professional dancer partner] who’s around my age, who physically I feel like I can be really free with,’ and they came up with Ian, and I was so thrilled.”
“Our birthdays are a week apart. He’s from the other side of the world, but he’s been a really experienced dancer. He is a really technical dancer, so I was really excited about the challenge.”
Lisa McCune said she’ll be using her new dance moves at the Logies
Dancing With The Stars may be wrapped for 2024, but Lisa said she’ll be using her newfound dance moves as much as she possibly can.
“I’m going to be dancing everywhere. I’m going to I’m going to be dancing at Logies,” she laughed. “I can’t wait for next week. I’m taking my daughter for the first time.”
We’ve got our fingers crossed Lisa will be doing that dance during the live Logie Award broadcast!
Stream Dancing With The Stars Australia 2024 on 7Plus.
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