Aric Yegudkin

Education

He also holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales.

Career

Yegudkin is best known as a professional dancer on the Australian Dancing with the Stars. Yegudkin started taking ballroom dance lessons at 8 years old. Yegudkin competed as a Latin American dancer in dancesport competitions.

In July 2001, Yegudkin partnered with Masha Belash, and the two began competing together in the youth category of dancesport.

Yegudkin is an accredited Dancesport Australia instructor. Yegudkin first competed as a professional dancer Australian Dancing With the Stars in season 3.

After winning their season of Dancing with the Stars, Nicodemou and Yegudkin competed against past winners Tom Williams and Kym Johnson in a special televised competition. Both couples performed three dances over two weeks for the panel of judges.

Yedgukin"s Dancing with the Stars results are shown on the table below:

Outside of television, Yegudkin has served as a choreographer and dancer in the Australian touring stage show Shake, Rattle "n"Roll.

Yegudkin has also performed in productions of Burn the Floor and Dance, Dance, Dance. Yegudkin is engaged to fellow professional dancer Masha Belash.

Achievements

• Together the pair won the Australian National Youth Latin American Championship three times. He won his first season of the reality dance competition with celebrity partner Ada Nicodemou. Nicodemou and Yegudkin won the competition and were given the "Champion of Champions" trophy. Foreign the fifteenth season of Dancing with the Stars, Yegudkin was partnered with presenter Emma Freedman in which they won on 7 September 2015.