Edyta Śliwińska
Śliwińska at the 2009 American Music Awards
Born (1981-05-06) May 6, 1981
Warsaw, Poland
OccupationBallroom dancer
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Spouse
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(m. 2007)​
Children2

Edyta Śliwińska (Polish pronunciation: [ɛˈdɨta ɕlʲiˈvʲiɲska]; born May 6, 1981) is a Polish professional ballroom dancer who is starring in the stage show Dance Temptation. She is best known for her appearances on the American version of the reality television series Dancing with the Stars, where she appeared on all of the first ten seasons of the show.

Early life

Śliwińska was born in Warsaw, Poland, and comes from a working-class Polish background.[1] She took her first dancing class at age 12.[2]

Dancing with the Stars

In the debut season of Dancing with the Stars in June 2005, Śliwińska partnered boxing champion Evander Holyfield, with whom she placed 5th in the competition.

For the second season, she was paired with actor George Hamilton, and again came in 5th place.

With the third season, her partner was actor Joey Lawrence, and the couple achieved 3rd place. Śliwińska and Lawrence were part of the first performance tour of the show from December 19, 2006, to February 11, 2007.[3]

For Season 4, she originally had Vincent Pastore as her partner,[4] but Pastore dropped out after a week of training, as he was unable to keep up with the hard pace of preparation.[5] On March 2, John Ratzenberger was announced to be Pastore's replacement, giving Ratzenberger the least time of any celebrity to prepare for the series at the time.[5] On May 1, 2007, Sliwinska and Ratzenberger became the sixth couple eliminated from the competition, with a finish of 6th place.[6]

Śliwińska at 2009 American Music Awards.

In Season 5, Śliwińska was partnered with soap opera actor Cameron Mathison. They became the eighth couple eliminated before the Semi-Finals, with a finish of 5th place for the third time.

In Season 6 her partner was NFL player Jason Taylor. They won second place, giving Śliwińska her best finish to date.

In Season 7, Śliwińska and her partner American Comedian and Roastmaster Jeffrey Ross were the first couple voted off. They did not get their chance to show their Quickstep. During practice, Ross suffered an eye injury. Misty May-Treanor had suffered a leg injury in week three of the competition, and since she wanted to show America her Jive, Śliwińska danced it for her on the next night's result show. After week six, Śliwińska temporarily replaced Julianne Hough as Cody Linley's professional partner until Hough recovered from surgery scheduled on October 28, 2008.

In Season 8, Śliwińska was paired with NFL player Lawrence Taylor. They were eliminated in the seventh week of the show on April 21, 2009, with the lowest judged score of 21 and came in 7th place.

For Season 9, Śliwińska was paired with Ashley Hamilton, George Hamilton's son. They were eliminated first making Sliwinska the third professional to come in last more than once along with Alec Mazo (her husband), Jonathan Roberts, and Tristan MacManus.

For Season 10, it was announced on March 2, 2010, that she would be partnered up with soap opera star Aiden Turner. They were voted off in the fourth week of the competition and came in 9th place.

On March 2, 2016, it was announced that Śliwińska would return for season 22 after an eleven-season hiatus and is partnered with journalist Geraldo Rivera. The couple was the first to be eliminated on Week 2 of competition.

Season Partner Place Average
Score
1 Evander Holyfield 5th 15
2 George Hamilton 5th 21.7
3 Joey Lawrence 3rd 26.5
4 John Ratzenburger 6th 19.5
5 Cameron Mathison 5th 24.5
6 Jason Taylor 2nd 26.3
7 Jeffrey Ross 12th 12
8 Lawrence Taylor 7th 19.7
9 Ashley Hamilton 12th 15
10 Aiden Turner 9th 18.1
22 Geraldo Rivera 12th 13

Dancing with the Stars performances

With Evander Holyfield

Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha-Cha-Cha/ "Respect" 5 7 6 No elimination
2 Quickstep/ "It Don't Mean a Thing" 5 4 5 Safe
3 Jive/ "Reet Petite" 5 4 4 Eliminated

With George Hamilton

Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha-cha-cha/ "Oye Como Va" 7 5 6 Safe
2 Quickstep/ "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" 8 7 7 Safe
3 Tango/ "La Cumparsita" 7 7 8 Bottom 2
4 Paso Doble/ "Matador Paso" 7 7 7 Safe
5 Samba/ "Conga"
Group Salsa/ "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You"		 8
No		 8
Scores		 8
Given		 Bottom 2
6 Rumba/ "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps"
Group Viennese Waltz/ "Fallin'"		 8
No		 7
Scores		 8
Given		 Eliminated

With Joey Lawrence

Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha-Cha-Cha/ "I Like The Way You Move" 7 7 7 Safe
2 Quickstep/ "I Got Rhythm" 10 9 10 Safe
3 Jive/ "Blue Suede Shoes" 8 6 8 Safe
4 Waltz/ "Take It to the Limit" 9 9 9 Safe
5 Samba/ "Freedom! '90" 8 8 9 Safe
6 Rumba/ "Father Figure"
Disco/ "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough"		 8
No		 8
Scores		 8
Given		 No Elimination
7 Foxtrot/ "Singin' in the Rain"
Mambo/ "Mambo No. 5"		 10
9		 9
9		 10
10		 Safe
8 Tango/ "The Addams Family Theme"
Paso Doble/ "Sympathy for the Devil"		 10
9		 9
8		 9
9		 Safe
9
Semi-finals		 Quickstep/ "42nd Street"
Rumba/ "Eternal Flame"		 9
10		 10
10		 10
10		 Eliminated, Third Place

With John Ratzenberger

Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha-Cha-Cha/ "Chain of Fools" 6 5 6 No elimination
2 Quickstep/ "The Lady is a Tramp" 7 7 7 Safe
3 Tango/ "Libertango" 7 6 7 Safe
4 Paso Doble/ "A Kind of Magic" 6 5 5 Bottom 2
5 Samba/ "Love Is in the Air" 6 6 6 Safe
6 Mambo/ "Mambo Swing"
Swing/ "Rock This Town"		 7
No		 6
Scores		 6
Given		 Bottom 2
7 Foxtrot/ "That's Life"
Rumba/ "Under Pressure"		 8
7		 7
8		 8
7		 Eliminated

With Cameron Mathison

Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Foxtrot/ "Moondance" 7 7 7 Safe
2 Mambo/ "Mas Que Nada" 7 7 7 Safe
3 Tango/ "The Beat Goes On" 8 7 8 Safe
4 Paso Doble/ "Theme from Superman" 9 9 9 Safe
5 Rumba/ "I've Got To See You Again" 8 9 9 Safe
6 Samba/ "Magalenha"
Rock N Roll/ "Rockin' Robin"		 9
No		 8
Scores		 8
Given		 Bottom 2
7 Quickstep/ "Why Can't I Be You?"
Jive/ "Boy from New York City"		 8
9		 8
9		 8
9		 Safe
8 Viennese Waltz/ "Hedwig's Theme"
Cha-Cha-Cha/ "Brown Sugar"		 9
8		 9
8		 9
8		 Eliminated

With Jason Taylor

Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Foxtrot/ "Pride and Joy" 7 8 7 No elimination
2 Mambo/ "Lupita" 9 9 9 Safe
3 Jive/ "I Got a Woman" 8 7 8 Safe
4 Viennese Waltz/ "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" 10 9 10 Safe
5 Rumba/ "You're All I Need To Get By" 9 9 9 Safe
6 Cha-Cha-Cha/ "Best of My Love"
Country Western/"Cotton-Eyed Joe		 8
No		 8
Scores		 8
Given		 Safe
7 Quickstep/ "The Dirty Boogie"
Paso Doble/ "Heavy Action"		 10
9		 9
8		 10
9		 Safe
8 Tango/ "Tango Barbaro"
Samba/ "It Had Better Be Tonight"		 10
8		 9
7		 10
8		 Last to be Called Safe
9
Semi-finals		 Foxtrot/ "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off"
Paso Doble/ "El Gato Montes"		 9
9		 10
9		 9
9		 Safe
10
Finals		 Cha-Cha-Cha/ "Dancing on the Ceiling"
Freestyle/ "Miami"
Quickstep/ "The Dirty Boogie"		 8
9
10		 8
9
10		 8
9
10		 Runner-Up

With Jeffrey Ross

Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha-cha-cha/ "Play That Funky Music"
Quickstep/ "I Get A Kick Out Of You"		 4
Did		 4
Not		 4
Perform		 Eliminated

With Lawrence Taylor

Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha-Cha-Cha/ "25 Miles" 6 5 5 No elimination
2 Quickstep/ "As Long As I'm Singing" 7 7 6 Safe
3 Samba/ "I Can't Get Next To You" 7 6 7 Safe
4 Argentine Tango/ "Suite Punta Del Este" 7 5 7 Safe
5 Paso Doble/ "Granada" 6 7 7 Dance off
6 Jive/ "Ain't That Peculiar 7 7 8 Safe
7 Waltz/ "Open Arms"
1960's Group Dance/ "The Clapping Song"		 7
No		 7
Scores		 7
Given		 Eliminated

With Ashley Hamilton

Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Foxtrot/ "Grace Kelly"
Salsa relay/ "Get Busy"		 5
Awarded		 6
4		 4
Points		 Eliminated

With Aiden Turner

Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha-Cha-Cha/ "Hungry Like the Wolf" 5 5 5 No Elimination
2 Foxtrot/ "I've Got You Under My Skin" 7 6 6 Safe
3 Quickstep/ "Hey, Soul Sister" 7 6 7 Safe
4 Rumba/ "Live Like We're Dying" 5,6 5,6 5,6 Eliminated

With Geraldo Rivera

Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha-Cha-Cha/ "Treasure" 5 4 4 No Elimination
2 Salsa/ "Ran Kan Kan" 5 4 4 Eliminated

Personal life

Śliwińska's husband and professional partner in dance competitions is Alec Mazo, who also participated in Dancing with the Stars, winning with Kelly Monaco. They have danced together for over 6 years and have performed together multiple times for Dancing with the Stars results shows in pair numbers. They married on September 1, 2007. The couple welcomed their son, Michael Alexander Mazo, on January 4, 2014.[7] On June 18, 2017, she gave birth to their second child, a daughter Leia Josephine.

Professional awards

  • Emerald Ball Latin Amateur Champion[8]
  • 1st Place - 2001 International Grand Ball (San Francisco)[8]
  • 1st Place - 2001 Holiday Ball (Las Vegas, Nevada)[8]

Acting career

  • Śliwińska appeared in a Jared's jewelry commercial along with fellow Dancing With the Stars pros Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Alec Mazo,[9] and Shalene Archer Ermis.
  • She played Ruby Love on CSI:NY on the 13th episode of season 5 called "Rush to Judgment", where she played a salsa dance teacher who was involved in a murder.[10]
  • In 2013, Śliwińska appeared on the May 13th edition of WWE Raw as the dance partner of Dancing with the Stars alumni Chris Jericho during a Dance-Off segment between Jericho and herself against Fandango and his partner Summer Rae.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "About Edyta". Archived from the original on 2007-04-29. Retrieved 2007-07-30.
  2. ↑ Dancing with the Stars Secrets - People Magazine
  3. ↑ "Dancing With The Stars - The Tour hits the road this winter!" (Press release). AEG Live. 2006-10-25. Retrieved 2006-11-13.
  4. ↑ "The Stars Align for a fourth season of ABC's hit alternative series, Dancing With the Stars". abc.go.com. 2007. Retrieved 2007-02-21.
  5. 1 2 "John Ratzenberger Joins Cast of 'Dancing with the Stars'". ABC News. 2006-03-02. Retrieved 2007-05-14.
  6. ↑ "Former 'Cheers' Mailman Ratzenberger is Latest Casualty on 'Dancing'". ABC News. 2007-05-01. Archived from the original on October 21, 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-14.
  7. ↑ "Alec Mazo & Edyta Sliwinska Welcome Baby Boy | Access Hollywood". Archived from the original on 2014-01-12. Retrieved 2014-01-12.
  8. 1 2 3 Brief bio at ABC.go.com
  9. ↑ "Edyta Sliwinska". IMDb.
  10. ↑ "Rush to Judgement". IMDb.
  11. ↑ "Chris Jericho vs. Fandango - Dance-Off: Raw, May 13, 2013". YouTube.
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