Dance Your Ass Off Mixes Dancing and Dieting for the Ultimate Success

Are you over weight but still light on your feet? Do you love to bust a move on the dance floor or even on the kitchen floor?

In the new Oxygen series television show Dance Your Ass Off it combines elements of Dancing with the Stars with The Biggest Loser to help 12 men and 12 women shed the pounds and achieve a healthier lifestyle.

Marissa Jaret Winokur of Hairspray fame hosts the new reality show, which combines contestants with a professional dance partner and a nutritionist. Like Dancing with the Stars there are three judges who each week will rank the performances combined with weight loss for a total score.

"[Those other shows] are more like boot camps. This isn't like boot camp. This is people finding their sexuality and embracing life in a different way. They're finding their femininity or masculinity," said Winokur. "They dance to the scale that's how it's different than Biggest Loser. It's not like a walk of shame to the scale."

So drop that Twinkie and lace up your dancing shoes, Dance Your Ass Off premiers this summer and the winner will walk away with a $100,000 grand prize!

By Michelle Laing