Dancing With the Stars - Season 5

Dancing with the stars Season 5 began last night. If I may say, there are 3 gorgeous men in the competition. 1 male model and 2 professional dancers.

Albert Reed

Albert Reed appears as a contestant in the fifth season of the ABC network’s celebrity reality TV dance competition series Dancing with the Stars. He is an American clothing model who was born on March 6, 1985 in South Miami, Florida. When he was 13 years old, his family moved to Vero Beach, which he describes as being a little surfer town, where he enjoyed surfing almost every day and became part of the local surfer culture. However, his father John Reed and his mother Barbara Foster divorced while he was in the 10th grade, and he describes them as having been hippies.

He worked for a time as a waiter for the five-star restaurant The Brasserie, and was signed by the Karin Models modeling agency for part-time work while he was still in high school. Upon graduating, he moved back to Miami to continue pursuing modeling and public relations work for clubs. His modeling career allowed him to travel to Scotland, Greece, and Italy. Reed has worked for Abercrombie and Fitch, Van Heusen, and SLAM. He has appeared in ads for the pages of Rolling Stone, GQ, and Teen Vogue. Apart from modeling, he also writes songs and poetry for his band in his spare time, and continues to enjoy surfing.

Derek Hough

Derek Hough appears as a contestant in the fifth season of the ABC network’s celebrity reality television dance competition series Dancing with the Stars. He is an American choreographer and dancer who was born in 1985 and originally hails from Salt Lake City, Utah. When he was 12 years old, he moved to London in order to sustain and develop his talent for Latin-American Dance. He studied and eventually became an instructor at the Italia Conti Academy, specializing in theater arts. His subsequent career from this starting point has included competing professionally, doing work for television, and performing at the West End theater.

As a competitive dancer, he has performed at a professional level alongside Polish dancer Aneta Piotrowska, who appeared in the Polish version of Dancing with the Stars. He has also emerged victorious at the New York Dance Alliance with Outstanding Dance awards, as well as being crowned LA Outstanding Dancer of the Year. He has taken on the role of Ren McCormack in both the West End and UK Tour productions of the musical Footloose, as well as the titular Messiah in Jesus Christ Superstar. Hough also appeared in the movie Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone.

Mark Ballas

Mark Ballas Jr. appears as a contestant in the fifth season of the ABC network’s celebrity reality television dance competition series Dancing with the Stars. He was born in Houston, Texas, though he moved when he was very young to London, England. When he was four years old, Ballas was admitted into an associate school of the Italia Conti Academy of Dramatic Arts, where he underwent training in voice performance, acting, and dance. He also owned his first guitar at this young age. At the age of 10, he came out on top as the champion of the British Juvenile Ballroom and Latin American dance competition, and moved on to the US Open.

He also competed and won the gold medal for Latin American dance at an international open, and the Junior Olympics. When he was 11 years old, he earned for himself a full-time slot to the Italia Conti Academy, along with a full college scholarship later on. Aside from dancing, he has acted onstage in musicals, taking on the role of Tony in Copa Cabana, and also performing in the UK National Tour of The Buddy Holly Musical . He also plays drums and bass, and together with his good friend Derek Hough, formed the band Almost Amy.