No, if I remember right the professional partners of the male candidates were all wearing yellow (not exactly the same dress, but all yellow) or maybe the video quality was bad.
Yes, there will always be more experienced people around, but this difference was so big! One of the guys getting a 4 or 5 because he probably never had a ane dance training before and Kristi getting a 9. In "real" competitions people usually have to compete with people who ar more or less on the same level.
We had the same situation in the Dutch version of this show. A guy from a garden tv show who never danced in his entire life... and a woman who had done almost professional level ballet and different dance styles for many years. During the first episode she let herself fall into a split already
. I think it was good the audience voted more for the other candidates, so she had to leave the show after the first episode. Though in a way this was also not fair because she was one of the best dancers. But well, it isn't a real competition but entertainment and it's a lot nicer to actually see people improve from the first show instead of seeing an instant almost professional.