Ashly DelGrosso
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Ashly DelGrosso-Costa (b. July 9, 1982, Denver, Colorado), known professionally as Ashly DelGrosso, is a professional dancer from Highland, Utah who starred on the ABC television series Dancing with the Stars for the first three seasons.
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[edit] Biography
A self-described "Utah County Mormon", Ashly was introduced to dance by her mother, Kim, who owns a dance studio (the Center Stage Performing Arts Studio) in Orem, Utah where Ashly has worked as an instructor for six years [1].
Ashly is one of eight children and she has five sisters who are also dancers. She performed with those sisters, Averie, Afton, Autumn, Amber, and Abrea, as a troupe in a third season results show the week after Ashly and partner Harry Hamlin were eliminated.
With Jonathan Gulledge, her ex-husband and amateur dance partner, Ashly has won several Amateur Ten Dance titles.
She partnered professionally with Rick Robinson- her coach from the age of eleven- on the professional Latin circuit before retiring shortly before Dancing with the Stars.[2] [3]
A bio on ABC's website during Season 1 of Dancing with the Stars stated that Ashly's height is 5'3".
On October 21, 2006, Ashly married Mike Costa, a field producer for Dancing with the Stars.[4]
On February 20, 2007, Ashly annouced that she and her husband are expecting their first child. She is due in July 2007 and she will not be appearing on Dancing with the Stars this year. [5]
[edit] Dancing Accolades
- Holiday Rising Star Champion
- Rising Star World Professional Latin Championship Semi-Finalist
- United States Rising Star Professional Latin Champion Finalist
- Two-time US Youth Ten Dance Champion
- Amateur Ten Dance Champion
- US Youth Standard Champion
[edit] Track Record on Dancing with the Stars
In Season 1, Ashly partnered musician and ex-New Kids on the Block singer Joey McIntyre to come in third.
In Season 2 she and rap star Master P came in seventh.
Ashly and celebrity parter Harry Hamlin were eliminated on third week of Season 3 of Dancing with the Stars, coming in ninth.
