Kym Johnson

Kym Johnson (born 1976) is an Australian former professional ballroom dancer, model, and television celebrity. She lives in Sydney, Australia but is currently based in America for "Dancing with the Stars".

Dance biography

Johnson began dancing at the age of two. She began ballroom dancing at 15 years old. [ [http://abc.go.com/primetime/dancing/bios/3/kym_johnson.html Dancing With The Stars - Home - ABC.com ] ] In 1998, she and her partner, Lithuanian Tomas Atkocevicius placed second at the Australian Dancesport Championships in the Open Amateur Modern Ballroom. [ [http://au.yahoo.com/celebrity-survivor/contestants/kym/index.html Kym Johnson Biography - Celebrity Survivor ] ] They also were finalists as the U.K. Ballroom Championships at Blackpool. She retired from competitive ballroom dance in 2001.

Since 2001, she has appeared in a number of events and films, including:
* Burn the Floor, a touring ballroom dance production.
* Performing at Elton John's 50th Birthday party.
* Dancing at the "Blade Runner" launch party
* Dancing in the film "Strictly Ballroom"

Television appearances

Kym Johnson became a celebrity after appearing on "Dancing with the Stars", a televised ballroom dance competition.

She appeared on Seasons 1-3 of "Dancing with the Stars" in Australia in 2004 and 2005. In Season 2, she and her partner, television presenter Tom Williams were the winning couple, they both then performed in the champion of champion series. Kym also made a cameo during the 4th Australian series "Dancing with the Stars" Grand Final, Performing with musician Alex Lloyd.

In early 2006, she appeared on the Australian program "Celebrity Survivor" on behalf of the Merry Makers .

Later the same year (2006), Kym appeared on season 3 of the US "Dancing with the Stars", partnering with talk show icon Jerry Springer. They proved to be very popular and were the 7th couple sent off. During the series Kym wrote a Behind the Scenes' Diary for OK! Magazine Australia.

Kym later continued to tour America with the "Dancing with the Stars" Tour, but was unable to perform in every show due to an arm injury.

Kym returned to the ballroom on March 19 for Season 4, this time partnered with member of N'Sync Joey Fatone. She became the runner-up professional dancer of this season. [cite news |title=The Stars Align for a fourth season of ABC's hit alternative series, Dancing With the Stars|url=http://abc.go.com/primetime/dancing/newseason.html
work=abc.go.com|date=2007|accessdate=2007-02-21] After the completion of Dancing with the Stars, Kym and Joey Fatone celebrated by going on the inaugural Mediterranean cruise for the Disney Cruise Line. The two performed for the ship's guests on June 2, 2007 and the performance can be watched [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjvIbpl2xVg here] . Billionare Mark Cuban was her Season 5 Partner; they were voted off in the fifth week. In season 6 she competed with magician Penn Jillette, but they were voted off in the first week. Johnson is currently competing on season 7 and is partnered with former NFL Player Warren Sapp.

Along with Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Ashly DelGrosso-Costa, Kym appears in the DVD "".

Dancing with the Stars Performances

With celebrity partner Penn Jillette:

Other media coverage

She posed in March 2006 for Australian men's magazine FHM [ [http://www.fhm.com.au/Site/Girls/CoverGirls/Article.aspx?Gallery=4527&Picture=1&GirlID=15575 Girls of FHM ] ]

Personal life

Kym Johnson was engaged to Australian cricketer Shane Watson for 2 years but broke it off with Watson after becoming involved with her dance partner on the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars, Tom Williams of The Great Outdoors who, soon after ended their relationship. [cite news|title=Watson's not likely to give up the ghost|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/cricket/watsons-not-likely-to-give-up-the-ghost/2005/07/02/1119724849366.html|work=smh.com.au|date=2007|accessdate=2007-04-14]

References

External links

*imdb name|1787834|Kym Johnson
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15420196/ Jerry Springer and Kym Johnson eliminated, MSNBC]
* [http://www.kymjohnson.com.au Kym Johnson Official Website]
** [http://www.learning2dance.com/site/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=kristina&x=0&y=0'Take a Free Dance Lesson NOW with Kym]