Dancing with the Stars’ season finale wins the Sunday night ratings

Channel Seven scored a rare Sunday night ratings victory over Nine with the season finale of Dancing with the Stars: All Stars.

DWTS: All Stars, which was won by returning contestant Luke Jacobz, was the most-watched non-news program of the night with 802,000 metro viewers.

This figure swelled to 827,000 for the winner announcement, reports Mediaweek.

Luke, who won Seven’s dancing competition in 2008, claimed victory after facing off against Bec Hewitt, Kyly Clarke, Lincoln Lewis, Ada Nicodemou and Manu Feildel.

After all the couples performed a freestyle routine, the former McLeod’s Daughters star went head to head with Bec in the last dance, eventually coming out on top.

‘To win is honestly the greatest achievement of my life,’ he said afterwards.

‘To experience it with Jorja [Freeman, his professional dance partner], who is by far the most creative and talented person I know, is like a dream,’ he added.

The actor raised $20,000 for his chosen charity, Beanies 4 Brain Cancer. 

Dancing with the Stars outperformed Nine’s once-unbeatable Lego Masters, which had a metro audience of 715,000. 

The finale’s success also helped Seven win its first Sunday night of 2021, ending Nine’s winning streak in the ratings.

Elsewhere on Sunday, Channel 10’s MasterChef Australia had 527,000 viewers in the five major cities.

Nine’s 60 Minutes had a metro audience of 432,000.