In total, the 12 Border personalities competing in the charity event and their dance teacher partners raised $238,000 to be put towards cancer prevention and patient treatment.

Border Star and Corowa-Rutherglen A grade netball coach Georgie Bruce said it was an "outstanding amount" considering the financial strain many members of the community were under due to the pandemic.

"We know that everyone did it really tough," she said.

"There were lots of people out of work and financially strained, but the generosity that I, as an individual, have experienced and the support that I've experienced, was overwhelming.

"It just reiterates in your mind that we're so lucky in this country."

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Ms Bruce said it was an amazing event that everybody, including many volunteers, worked hard to pull off.

"It's a fantastic production event that's put on and it takes an enormous effort," she said.

"They're just amazing people.

"We'll look back at this and think that was the best thing we ever did and for a great cause."

Ms Bruce said the intense training schedules and learning a new skill had been challenging for some stars, but she was glad that after weeks of late night rehearsals the effort had paid off.

"You think 'oh my god, this is so hard to do this'," she said.

"But this is nothing in the grand scheme of things when you reflect on what a cancer patient must be going through."

Karen Crook won the people's choice award with her partner Glen Strauss and the largest fundraising award went to Bart Furst, partnered by Elly Bligh.

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