Dancing with the Stars (season 2)

Season two of the Dancing with the Stars premiered on the ABC network on January 5, 2006, and ended February 24, 2006. This season expanded to ten couples from six in the previous season. All the professionals dancers from season one, with the exception of Alec Mazo and Charlotte Jørgensen, were a part of season two. Tom Bergeron returned as host while Samantha Harris replaced Lisa Canning as co-host. Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli returned as judges.

Season two expanded each program from an hour to 90 minutes, and added an hour-long results show the following night (in the first season no couples were eliminated in the first week; the first couple was eliminated at the end of the second episode, the second couple at the end of the third episode, and so on).

The winner of this season was talk show host and actress TBA, and their professional partner was TBA.

This season was preceded by season one and followed by season three.

Couples
The ten celebrities and professional dance partners were:

Scoring chart

 * Red numbers indicate the lowest score for each week
 * Green numbers indicate the highest score for each week

Average chart
This table only counts for dances scored on a traditional 30-point scale.

Highest and lowest scoring performances
The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' 30-point scale are as follows:

Couples' highest and lowest scoring performances
According to the traditional 30-point scale.

Weekly scores
Unless indicated otherwise, individual judges scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.

Week 1

 * Running order

Week 2

 * Running order

Dance Chart

 * Week 1: Cha-cha-cha or Waltz
 * Week 2: Rumba or Quickstep
 * Week 3: Jive or Tango
 * Week 4: Foxtrot or Paso Doble
 * Week 5: Samba & group Salsa
 * Week 6: Unlearned dance & group Viennese Waltz
 * Week 7: One unlearned ballroom & Latin dance
 * Week 8: Favorite dance, Freestyle, & randomly chosen dance