OPINION: Around about the time they announced some bloke from The Rock was going to be on the show, it started to feel like Dancing With The Stars was jumping the shark. 

I'm still not 100 per cent sure who Roger Farrelly is, but more power to him. He's open to wearing spandex on national TV and I can't fault  "The Rog" - as he's known on the radio -  for it.  

The line-up got a little of the zhoosh back with Zac Franich (mostly because of that hair), and of course I was already over excited about the free laughter yoga sessions I'll be getting from David Seymour, aka Twinkle Toes, appearing on the show.

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Step off fools, Suzy Cato's here to do her thing.

But overall the roster was what we in the obsessively watching reality TV dancing show business call a hot mess.  At least it was... until Suzy Cato, in her strappy gold lame cami-top and leather skinny jeans, snake -hipped her way into the competition. 

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By "hot mess" I mean who could have picked a winner from that lot? There wasn't a real contender among the lot of them, although maybe Sam Hayes... but no, she's too obvious. Gah, which one of these slebs would I willingly do internet battle with complete strangers over? None of them really inspired me.

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It's Queen... Q-U-E-E-N.

And then Three played that teaser. You know the one, where The Bachelor's Naz Khanjani flicks about a bit like a gorgeous show girl, and then out of the smog a wild Suzy Cato appears and goes full Sandy-From-Grease-in-the-Fun-House-Scene on the nation? Yeah, that one. 

As we sat watching the teaser on Wednesday morning, open-gobbed like a pair of stunned mullet, my co-worker said: "That just destroyed my childhood... Suzy Cato's not supposed to look like that." 

To which I replied, "Shut your fool mouth, son! The Queen has arrived!" 

The way Cato strides into that dance off against Khanjani is the stuff of legend. Those hips don't lie, Suzy Cato is not here to fool around, she's here to throw shapes, and take names.  

Be still my heart.

Later in the morning Cato appeared on The AM Show and sang It's Our Time, Kia Ora, Talofa (I'm not sure if that's what it's called, but those are the lyrics that I have had stuck in my head for 48 hours since, so that's what it's called now.)

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This look says "BOOM, HOW BOW DAH, BEEATCH" so incredibly eloquently.

She was generally as charming and lovely as we all remember her being on Suzy's World and You and Me. But it couldn't overwrite what we'd learned just that morning: Suzy Cato is a stone cold fox, with moves to die for. 

Here at Stuff Towers, we're still preparing our Dancing With The Stars Leader's Board, but my pick for the finale is pretty clear:

It'll be Suzy Cato v David Seymour for an hour of TV New Zealand will never, ever forget. 

What do you reckon?  

Three's Dancing with The Stars premieres on April 29. 

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 - Stuff