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Do the Male Celebrities Have it Easier on Dancing With the Stars?

The television show Dancing with the Stars is about to start their seventh season. There is a lot of talk about the fact that the women celebrities have only won two of the six seasons and there is speculation that the judges are harder on the female celebrities that of their male counterparts. Let us explore that allegation a bit.

First of all, to take a look at advantages on the show let us look at the winners of the six seasons that have already aired.

Winners of Dancing With the Stars Seasons 1-6:

• Season 1 (Summer 2005) Kelly Monaco and Alec Mazo were the winners
• Season 2 (Spring 2006) Drew Lachey and Cheryl Burke were the winners
• Season 3 (Fall 2006) Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke were the winners
• Season 4 (Spring 2007) Apolo Anton Ohno and Julianne Hough were the winners
• Season 5 (Fall 2007) Helio Castroneves and Julianne Hough were the winners
• Season 6 (Spring 2008) Kristi Yamaguchi and Mark Ballas were the winners
• Season 7 airs Fall of 2008.

As you can see, the first and the sixth seasons the female celebrities were the winners. Another interesting fact from the above list, each time the female professional dancer won, it was two consecutive seasons. However, when the male professional dancers won, they won once. It is almost as though once the public and the judges take a liking to a particular female professional dancer, they stick with it for two seasons at a time.

Some people have speculated as to why the men are winning more seasons then the woman at a fact that the men are stronger and therefore more able to take on the physical demands of learning the dances. There may be some merit to these allegations as both women that were the final winners of their seasons are very athletic by nature. Kristi Yamaguchi is a professional figure skater and Kelly Monaco is a very physically active actress.

Now what can be attributed to that fact that the male celebrities have had a winning record of two to one? Could it be the female professionals are more equipped or better at teaching dances? Or could it possibly be the public liked the male celebrities more to begin with so they had a better chance of winning overall approval? No matter why it happens, the fact remains, the males seem to have a 2 to 1 advantage when it comes to the possibility of winning the final episode of Dancing with the Stars.

Kathy is a guest writer at Reality-TV-Online. You can get the latest elimination results and news for DWTS and many other reality tv shows.