It’s Boy Bands versus Girl Groups this Sunday on Dancing With The Stars and viewers will also see presenters Jen and Laura captain the Team Dance Challenge<\/h2>\n\n![\"Presenters](\"https:\/\/i2-prod.rsvplive.ie\/article36704667.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200f\/0_DWTS-Week-6-Fright-Week-8th-Feb-2026_600.jpg\")
<\/div>\nPresenters Jennifer Zamparelli and Laura Fox during the live show of RTE\u2019s Dancing With The Stars.(Image: Pic :Kyran O\u2019Brien\/kobpix)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Dancing With The Stars<\/a> presenters Jennifer Zamparelli<\/a> and Laura Fox<\/a> will be taking to the floor this Sunday night.<\/p>\nThe Team Dance challenge is back – and the battle is on as this week’s theme is Boy Bands vs Girl Groups.<\/p>\n
For the first time in the competition, each couple will dance two competitive routines. As usual, each couple will dance an individual routine, this week inspired by a boy band banger or a girl group classic.<\/p>\n
The couples will then join forces for the annual Team Dance challenge.<\/p>\n
This year, it\u2019s boys against girls, with hosts Jen and Laura thrown into the mix alongside the couples and the judges.<\/p>\n
They will be team captains and will dance live on the night.<\/p>\n
Having survived the first dreaded Dance-Off last week, Olympic rower Philip Doyle will dance a Charleston alongside his partner Daniela Roze to \u2018Love Machine\u2019 by Girls Aloud.<\/p>\n
Following on from his leaderboard-topping Charleston last week, Ireland AM<\/a> presenter Eric Roberts and partner Arianna Favaro will dance a Cha-cha-cha to Jonas Brothers\u2019 hit \u2018Waffle House\u2019.<\/p>\nWant to <\/strong>see more of the stories you love from RSVP<\/a><\/strong>? To add RSVP as a preferred source of news on Google, <\/strong>simply click here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nEurovision<\/a> winner Niamh Kavanagh will channel her inner Beyonc\u00e9 with a Tango with her partner Stephen Vincent to Destiny\u2019s Child\u2019s \u2018Survivor’, while singer-songwriter Tol\u00fc Makay will dance a Salsa with partner Maciej Zieba to \u2018Boombayah\u2019 by K-Pop queens BLACKPINK.<\/p>\nThe Traitors Ireland<\/a> star Paudie Moloney and partner Laura Nolan will dance a Tango to Westlife\u2019s \u2018When You\u2019re Looking Like That\u2019.<\/p>\nRose of Tralee<\/a> Katelyn Cummins and partner Leonardo Lini will dance a Rumba to Boyzone\u2019s \u2018No Matter What\u2019.<\/p>\nThe Apprentice UK star Jordan Dargan and his pro partner Rebecca Scott will dance a Quickstep to One Direction\u2019s \u2018Story of My Life\u2019, while Fair City<\/a> actress Stephanie Kelly will dance a Viennese Waltz with partner Ervinas Merfeldas to the Boyz II Men ballad \u2018End of the Road\u2019.<\/p>\nAfter all eight couples have performed, it\u2019ll be Team Dance time.<\/p>\n
Jen will take lead as captain of the boys’ team, made up of Eric, Jordan, Paudie and Philip and their respective partners. They will dance to \u2018Relight My Fire\u2019 by Take That feat. Lulu.<\/p>\n
The ladies’ team \u2013 featuring Katelyn, Niamh, Stephanie and Tol\u00fc, alongside their respective partners \u2013 will be led by Laura The girls will take on the roles of Sporty, Ginger, Baby, Scary, and Posh dancing to the Spice Girls hit \u2018Spice Up Your Life\u2019.<\/p>\n
Each Team Dance will be marked out of 40 by the judges. Those scores will be added to each couple\u2019s scores from their individual dance, giving them a maximum score out of 80.<\/p>\n
The two couples with the lowest combined points will face the second Dance-Off of the season, where the judges decide who stays in the competition.<\/p>\n
Dancing With The Stars continues on Sunday at 6:30pm on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player. <\/strong>To get more Dancing With the Stars<\/a> news join our Facebook group – Here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rsvplive.ie \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s Boy Bands versus Girl Groups this Sunday on Dancing With The Stars and viewers will also see presenters Jen and Laura captain the Team Dance Challenge Presenters Jennifer Zamparelli and Laura Fox during the live show of RTE\u2019s Dancing With The Stars.(Image: Pic :Kyran O\u2019Brien\/kobpix) Dancing With The Stars presenters Jennifer Zamparelli and Laura […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2278526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[41508,424222,306173,29309,388870],"class_list":["post-2278525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-dancing-with-the-stars","tag-fair-city","tag-ireland","tag-love","tag-rte"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Two-new-celebs-to-perform-on-Dancing-With-The-Stars.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278527,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278525\/revisions\/2278527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/div>\nPresenters Jennifer Zamparelli and Laura Fox during the live show of RTE\u2019s Dancing With The Stars.(Image: Pic :Kyran O\u2019Brien\/kobpix)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Dancing With The Stars<\/a> presenters Jennifer Zamparelli<\/a> and Laura Fox<\/a> will be taking to the floor this Sunday night.<\/p>\n The Team Dance challenge is back – and the battle is on as this week’s theme is Boy Bands vs Girl Groups.<\/p>\n For the first time in the competition, each couple will dance two competitive routines. As usual, each couple will dance an individual routine, this week inspired by a boy band banger or a girl group classic.<\/p>\n The couples will then join forces for the annual Team Dance challenge.<\/p>\n This year, it\u2019s boys against girls, with hosts Jen and Laura thrown into the mix alongside the couples and the judges.<\/p>\n They will be team captains and will dance live on the night.<\/p>\n Having survived the first dreaded Dance-Off last week, Olympic rower Philip Doyle will dance a Charleston alongside his partner Daniela Roze to \u2018Love Machine\u2019 by Girls Aloud.<\/p>\n Following on from his leaderboard-topping Charleston last week, Ireland AM<\/a> presenter Eric Roberts and partner Arianna Favaro will dance a Cha-cha-cha to Jonas Brothers\u2019 hit \u2018Waffle House\u2019.<\/p>\n Want to <\/strong>see more of the stories you love from RSVP<\/a><\/strong>? To add RSVP as a preferred source of news on Google, <\/strong>simply click here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Eurovision<\/a> winner Niamh Kavanagh will channel her inner Beyonc\u00e9 with a Tango with her partner Stephen Vincent to Destiny\u2019s Child\u2019s \u2018Survivor’, while singer-songwriter Tol\u00fc Makay will dance a Salsa with partner Maciej Zieba to \u2018Boombayah\u2019 by K-Pop queens BLACKPINK.<\/p>\n The Traitors Ireland<\/a> star Paudie Moloney and partner Laura Nolan will dance a Tango to Westlife\u2019s \u2018When You\u2019re Looking Like That\u2019.<\/p>\n Rose of Tralee<\/a> Katelyn Cummins and partner Leonardo Lini will dance a Rumba to Boyzone\u2019s \u2018No Matter What\u2019.<\/p>\n The Apprentice UK star Jordan Dargan and his pro partner Rebecca Scott will dance a Quickstep to One Direction\u2019s \u2018Story of My Life\u2019, while Fair City<\/a> actress Stephanie Kelly will dance a Viennese Waltz with partner Ervinas Merfeldas to the Boyz II Men ballad \u2018End of the Road\u2019.<\/p>\n After all eight couples have performed, it\u2019ll be Team Dance time.<\/p>\n Jen will take lead as captain of the boys’ team, made up of Eric, Jordan, Paudie and Philip and their respective partners. They will dance to \u2018Relight My Fire\u2019 by Take That feat. Lulu.<\/p>\n The ladies’ team \u2013 featuring Katelyn, Niamh, Stephanie and Tol\u00fc, alongside their respective partners \u2013 will be led by Laura The girls will take on the roles of Sporty, Ginger, Baby, Scary, and Posh dancing to the Spice Girls hit \u2018Spice Up Your Life\u2019.<\/p>\n Each Team Dance will be marked out of 40 by the judges. 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