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ONE of nine remaining celebrities on Dancing with the Stars, Aidan O’Mahony and his dance partner Valeria Milova will be trying to wow the judges and the public this weekend with their American Smooth dance to ‘My Baby Just Cares for Me’ by Michael Buble.

Week five of the series, at 6.30pm on RTÉ One on Sunday, sees the competition get even more intense.

Last Sunday saw us say goodbye to model Thalia Heffernan and her partner Curtis Pritchard. Thalia scored a very respectable 20 points and was fifth on the judges’ leader board. Unfortunately her jive wasn’t enough as she exited the competition.

This week Denise McCormack and her dancing partner Ryan McShane will be taking to the floor with their Samba to Sia’s ‘Cheap Thrills’ while Des Cahill and partner Karen Byrne will be doing their best Tango to ‘Jealousy’ by Billy Fury.

Determined to do better than last week are Teresa Mannion and John Nolan, with a salsa to ‘Boogie Wonderland’ by Earth, Wind and Fire. Another duo hoping to avoid being at the bottom of the table again this week are Dayl Cronin and Ksenia Zsihotska who will be performing their best Viennese waltz to ‘Iris’ by the Goo Goo Dolls.

Katherine Lynch and Kai Widdrington will foxtrot to ‘Summertime’ by Ella Fitzgerald. Dr Eva Orsmond and partner Sean Smullen will be taking on ‘Nowhere to Run’ by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas with a cha cha cha. Also cha cha cha’ing will be Des Bishop and Giulia Dotta to the tune of ‘Uptown Funk’ by Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars. The second Viennese Waltz of the night will come from Aoibhín Garrihy and Vitali Kozmin to ‘Dangerous Woman´ by Ariana Grande.

Meanwhile the pro dancers have been practising their moves for a pasa doble to ‘Hurts’ by Emeli Sandé.

All voting and the elimination will take place on Sunday night's two-hour show.
The public’s vote will be translated into scores and then combined with the judges’ scores. The couple with the lowest combined score will be eliminated on Sunday night. All votes cast so far will count towards Sunday night’s result.