Peta Murgatroyd

Peta Jane Murgatroyd (born 14 July 1986)  is an New Zealand/Australian professional dancer. She is best known for her appearances on the American edition of  Dancing with the Stars.

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Dancing with the Stars
Murgatroyd joined the cast of Dancing with the Stars in 2011 as one of the troupe members in the 12th season. She became a regular member of the professional cast as of the 13th season, won Season 14, and was a part of the 15th season, the all-star version of the show.

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Season 13In season 13, she competed on the show as a professional with basketball player Metta World Peace. They were the first couple eliminated off the show.[3] ====Dancing with the Stars (Season 14)[ edit] ==== Main article: Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 14)In 2012, Murgatroyd was again featured as a professional dancer competing on Season 14 as the partner of football player Donald Driver. On 22 May, it was announced that the couple was the winner of the competition. She is the second professional to win after finishing last the prior season, after Kym Johnson. ====Dancing with the Stars (Season 15)[ edit] ==== Main article: Season 15<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For season 15, Peta is partnered with actor & season 8 runner up Gilles Marini. They ended up in sixth place. ====Dancing with the Stars (Season 16)<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== Main article: Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 16)<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2013, Murgatroyd was again featured as a professional dancer competing on season 16 as the partner of The Bachelor star Sean Lowe. They landed in sixth place. ====Dancing with the Stars (Season 17)<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== Main article: Season 17<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For season 17, she was paired with Pretty Little Liars actor Brant Daugherty. They were the sixth couple eliminated on November 4, 2013. ====Dancing with the Stars (Season 18)<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== Main article: Season 18<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2014 Murgatroyd was again featured as a professional dancer competing on season 18 as the partner of Big Time Rush member James Maslow. They made it to the finale but ended in fourth place.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"><sup style="line-height:1;">1 The Guest judges were Robin Roberts (Week 3), Julianne Hough (Week 4), Donny Osmond (Week 5), Redfoo (Week 6), Ricky Martin (Week 7), Abby Lee Miller (Week 8) andKenny Ortega (Week 9).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"><sup style="line-height:1;">2 For this week only, as part of the "Partner Switch-Up" week, Maslow performed with Cheryl Burke instead of Murgatroyd; Murgatroyd danced a rumba with Olympic ice dancingchampion Charlie White, scoring a 33 (7, 8, 9, 9).