WE'RE only a week and a half into 'Dancing With The Stars' but already there's been love affairs, blood on the dance floor and accusations one dancer has has an unfair advantage.
Tongues were sent wagging overnight when it was reported top contestant Rachael Finch has hooked up with her Russian dance partner Michael Miziner.
The beauty queen and Miziner have been spotted kissing and holding hands after leaving rehearsals for the show in Melbourne.
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And now Finch has confirmed what many had whispered.
"Michael and I have been dancing together for a couple of months now and
we’re having a great time," Rachael told New Idea.
"It’s early days in our relationship but we’re really enjoying each other’s company and I guess we’ll see where it leads.
Finch has previously been linked to champion swimmer Eamon Sullivan after the pair featured together on Celebrity MasterChef.
Her new love, Miziner also has a history of hooking up with his co-stars and was caught cosying up to swimsuit model Emily Scott when they were partnered together on DWTS last year.
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But amazingly this is not the first love match on the Channel 7 dancing show.
Beth Taylor and her partner Dannial Gosper are also understood to have found love together since the show began with Taylor photographed spending the weekend with Dannial's parents in Queensland.
But while some have been finding love on the dance floor other have just been bleeding on it.
Kyle Sandiland’s wife Tamara Jaber has spoken for the first time about being left bloodied and bruised by her last show-stopping routine on Dancing With The Stars.
Jaber injured her hand in her top-scoring tango with partner Carmelo Pizzino when she slammed it into the floor and later cut it on a silver briefcase she used as a prop.
The incident caused blood to ooze from her hand and smear on to Pizzino's shirt.
"I was bleeding from my hand. It was bleeding everywhere but I could not feel a thing, really," she said.
Jaber has also been forced to defend herself after fans complained she has an unfair advantage because of her previous training, claiming the judges will mark her harder for her past.
As well as winning hundreds of trophies around the world, Jaber spent a year in the US working as a back-up dancer on reality show Rainbow Connection.
"I think in the performance aspect, I definitely have more experience but as for the advantage (the judges) are definitely going to start marking me a lot harder and they are going to expect a lot more from me," she said.
"I know next week it is going to be a lot tougher."
On Sunday night she top-scored with 28 votes from the show's experts - 10 from Todd McKenney and 9s from Helen Richey and Mark Wilson.
But while Jaber might be concerned the judges might mark her down for her previous training the bookies beg to differ, with the sometime singer’s odds firming since her top-scoring performance on Sunday.
Jaber went from $4.50 to $3.75 on gambling website Sportingbet.com.au putting her within striking distance of show favourite Esther Anderson on $3.50.
Not far behind the glamorous pair are Blair McDonough Rob Palmer on $5.00.
But the gaming website has bad news for David Wirrapanda who is favourite to be the next punted from the show on $3.50 with Jo Beth Taylor and Alex Fevola not far behind on $4.00.
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With additional reporting by news.com.au staff writers.
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