Kym Herjavec (née Johnson; born 4 August 1976) is an Australian professional ballroom dancer and television performer who appeared in the first three seasons of the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars as a professional dancer, before moving to the U.S. version of the franchise from 2006 to 2015.
1998
In 1998, she and her partner, Lithuanian Tomas Atkocevicius, placed second at the Australian Dancesport Championship in the Open Amateur Modern Ballroom.
They also were finalists as the U.K. Ballroom Championships at Blackpool.
2001
She retired from competitive ballroom dance in 2001, but continued dancing on stage.
Since 2001, she has appeared in a number of events and films, including:
Johnson's first major television appearance was as a professional on Dancing with the Stars, a televised ballroom dance competition.
2004
She appeared on Seasons 1-3 of Dancing with the Stars in Australia in 2004 and 2005.
In Season 2, she and her partner, television presenter Tom Williams were the winning couple; they both then performed in the Champion of Champion series.
Johnson also made a cameo during the 4th Australian series Dancing with the Stars Grand Final, performing with musician Alex Lloyd.
2006
In early 2006, she appeared on the Australian program Australian Celebrity Survivor: Vanuatu on behalf of the Merry Makers.
She was the first one voted out of her Moso tribe and the game.
She received all 6 votes, 5 from her tribemates and her own vote.
Johnson is one of the few Survivor contestants worldwide to vote herself out of the game, as self-voting is generally against the rules in most editions.
Later the same year (2006), Johnson appeared on season 3 of the US Dancing with the Stars, partnering with talk show icon Jerry Springer.
They proved to be popular and were the 7th couple sent off.
During the series Johnson wrote a Behind the Scenes' Diary for OK!
Magazine Australia.
Johnson later continued to tour America with the Dancing with the Stars Tour, but was unable to perform in every show due to an arm injury.
Johnson returned to the ballroom on 19 March for Season 4, this time partnered with member of N'Sync Joey Fatone.
She became the runner-up professional dancer of this season.
After the completion of Dancing with the Stars, Johnson and Joey Fatone celebrated by going on the inaugural Mediterranean cruise for the Disney Cruise Line.
2007
The two performed for the ship's guests on 2 June 2007.
Billionaire Mark Cuban was her Season 5 Partner.
They were voted off in the fifth week.
In season 6 she competed with magician Penn Jillette, but they were the first voted off in the Double-Elimination in the second week.
Johnson competed on season 7 partnered with former NFL Player Warren Sapp.
They finished in second place behind Brooke Burke and Derek Hough.
This was Johnson's second time being the professional runner-up.
Johnson returned to the ballroom for Season 8, and she was paired with actor David Alan Grier.
2009
They were eliminated in the fifth week of competition on 7 April 2009.
For Season 9, Johnson was paired with Donny Osmond.
Osmond and Johnson were crowned the champions on 24 November 2009, making Johnson the only dance professional to have won the title in two different countries.
2013
She also served as a judge on the Australian version of the show from 2013 to 2015.
She is married to Robert Herjavec.
Johnson began dancing at the age of three.
She began ballroom dancing at 13 years of age.
In 2013 Johnson appeared on season three of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia but got fired on the fourth week as the losing project manager.
In 2013, Johnson became a judge on the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars.
Dancing with the Stars Australia results:
2017
Johnson returned as a professional to the U.S. series in 2017 for its 24th season.
