Dancing with the Stars - Jazz Thornton excerpt (Series Nine Final)

It’s an entertainment show but to be able to bring that aspect into it, and to normalise the conversation around mental health and normalise the conversations around suicide … it was really cool for Dancing with the Stars to even agree to do that.

– Contestant Jazz Thornton on being able to highlight her mental health work on Dancing with the Stars, Stuff, 30 May 2022

From week two you guys did this quickstep and from now, I feel like you should be very proud of how much it's changed,in a good way. Your quality of movement, your holds, your control — is great. I loved it.

– Judge Lance Savali

I couldn’t shake my hips, and Brad would have a hoody around my hips to try and make them move. We had to put a lot into it to get to where we ended up.

– Contestant Jazz Thornton describes her lack of dancing skills at the start of the series, Stuff, 30 May 2022