Dark star Hughie Maughan rises to steal the limelight on Dancing With The Stars

If Hughie Maughan wore a scowl instead of a pearly white smile he could have passed for Orson Welles in the 1951 movie version of Shakespeare’s Othello.

Dark star Hughie Maughan rises to steal the limelight on Dancing With The Stars

If he sang, Hughie would have made a passable 21st century Al Jolson, or produced a politically incorrect showstopper from the Black and White Minstrel Show.

Instead, the dark horse of RTÉ’s Dancing With The Stars stole the limelight on Sunday night with nothing more than a chocful of chutzpah and a giant bottle of bronzer.

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