Arthur Gourounlian on life as a dad, Dancing With The Stars, and the contestant he doesn't know

As Dancing With The Stars returns to ease our January blues, Mary Cate Smith meets judge Arthur Gourounlian to get the inside track on the new season

Dancing With the Stars judges Brian Redmond, Loraine Barry and Arthur Gourounlian.

If Jesus was born in the 70s as a maximalist fashion icon, he might look a little bit like Arthur Gourounlian. The pussy-bow blouse-wearing, French-speaking Armenian judge on Dancing With the Stars is a chameleon: he’s Beyoncé’s former backing dancer, Brian’s devoted husband, and his favourite role to date, Blake’s doting dad.

“Blake is literally the perfect baby, I just want to eat her. You’ve been fighting for such a long time to have a family and now we finally have this beauty.”