Ashley Banjo, Adam Garcia and Kimberly Wyatt are named as the trio to impress

Sky1 HD revealed today a truly international line up of hot dance talent that make up the judging panel for new dance contest JUST DANCE. Ashley Banjo (Diversity – winners of Britain’s Got Talent 2009), Adam Garcia (Coyote Ugly, West End star and founding member of Tap Dogs) and Kimberly Wyatt (Pussycat Dolls) are the team charged with finding the nation's next dance superstars.

With a career that has taken in stage and screen – from dancing on Broadway and London’s West End Stage through to opening the Sydney Olympic Games with a showstopping tap routine as well as numerous tv and film credits, Adam Garcia also presides over the hopefuls. As he sets off on the nationwide quest Garcia comments: "Dance, for me, was my first and still is my enduring passion. I am constantly inspired by peoples’ commitment to dance for the sake of the act itself. I think this competition will reveal some genuinely great, new talent and its going to be a real thrill to see so many peoples’ love of dance translated into a performance”




Ashley Banjo, choreographer and dancer from Diversity – the street crew who wowed Britain’s Got Talent audiences earlier this year and ultimately won the competition – knows exactly how it feels to be a dancer with big dreams. He says: "No one knows better than me how a contest like this can discover raw talent and open up fantastic opportunities. It's a thrill to be on the other side of the desk this time and I'm so excited about discovering some fresh, new, original dancers.”

Was in the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games 2000, in the tap dancing sequence.

Co-founded the dance troupe that went on to become the internationally acclaimed "Tap Dogs".

Starred as Tony Manero in the stage version of Saturday Night Fever at the London Palladium from April 1998-April 1999. Nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for this role.

Started following in John Travolta's footsteps by playing Doody in the West End (London) production of Grease. Travolta played the same role on stage. Followed up with the role of Tony Manero. Adam has joking said the he would also play the lead in musical version of "The Boy In The Plastic Bubble".

He was nominated for a 1999 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award (1998 season) for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in Saturday Night Fever.

Favorite authors include: J.R.R Tolkein, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Tom Robbins

Favorite actors include: Johnny Depp and Paul Newman

Attended the same high school as Australian actors Hugh Jackman, Andrew Johnston, Reg Livermore, Hugo Weaving, writer Stuart Beattie and radio host John Laws.

Adam left university to take the role of Slide in the production of the musical Hot Shoe Shuffle, which toured Australia for two years before transferring to London, England. Adam stayed on in London to act in West End musicals.

Garcia played Doody in the West End's version of Grease in London. He also played another Travolta character, Tony Manero, in the stage version of Saturday Night Fever, which ran from 1998 to 1999 in London. Garcia reached #15 in the UK singles chart in 1998, with his cover version of the Bee Gees song "Night Fever", taken from Saturday Night Fever. In 2000 Adam Garcia played Sean in Bootmen, a movie based on the Tapdogs story.

He appeared as government official Alex Klein in the 2005 Christmas special of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. According to the audio commentary podcast for the episode offered for free on the bbc.co.uk website following its transmission, Garcia accepted the relatively minor role as he is a science fiction fan.

Garcia has been nominated for multiple awards during his acting career. His transition into a film actor began in 1997, when he played Jones in Wilde, a movie about the life of writer Oscar Wilde. Despite the fact that he has starred in such movies as Coyote Ugly and others, it was not until 2004, when he participated as rock star Stu Wolf in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen that he gained mainstream fame as an actor.[citation needed]

Garcia worked with Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth to help create the role of Fiyero in the 2002 Wicked workshops, prior to Original Broadway Cast member Norbert Leo Butz working on the role.[1] In September 2006, Garcia began playing Fiyero in the London production of the Stephen Schwartz musical Wicked alongside Idina Menzel, Helen Dallimore and later, Kerry Ellis. He gave his final performance as Fiyero on July 14, 2007.

In the latter part of 2008, Adam appears in two ITV dramas, Britannia High in which he plays the dance teacher, and Mr Eleven, a two-part comedy/drama alongside Michelle Ryan and Sean Maguire. He is currently working on an indie film A Woman Called Job.