Teresa aims to sex it up on Dancing with the Stars!

Coming bottom of the table two weeks in a row has left Galway’s Teresa Mannion feeling exceedingly flat.

But she hopes with the help of a little sexy red dress, bright red hair and whole new attitude – and thankfully minus that hideous perm and eighties makeup – she will be able to pick herself up and put her game face on for episode five of Dancing with the Stars.

“I’ve hit a wall. I’m just wrecked. I’ve gone to mush,” she admitted on a break from rehearsals this week.

The RTE news reporter recreated the Dolly Parton classic 9 to 5 with her partner John Nolan in a quick step but she told she had a lot more work to put in, with one giving her just three points.

“I definitely didn’t deserve to get just three marks – it was the best technical dance I’ve done going by the content, the head work, the foot work,” she insisted.

“I’m just struggling this week; I really am.”

Despite her miserly twelve points, it was model Thalia Heffernan who was voted off by the public after dressing up as a minion from the animated movie Despicable Me – complete with giant blow up and real bananas as props – while jiving to Pharrell Williams’ Happy. She scored a respectable 20 points from the judges.

Winning all the headlines from the show was sports journalist Des Cahill. Donning a crushed blue velvet suit aping Austin Powers, he finished off a salsa on the floor with partner Karen Byrne riding Cahill like he is a dolphin – a feat which earned him 14 points.

GAA star Aidan O’Mahony and his hairless abs received 16 points for his interpretation of Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Judge Brian Redmond declared that a one-legged kangaroo would have more bounce than Katherine Lynch’s Mamma Mia-inspired samba – yet she scored 16.

Actress Aoibhín Garrihy stunned with a rumba to Falling Slowly from Once, winning 26 points, only to be outdone by boyband star Dayl Cronin and his jive to Footloose, scoring 27 points and top place on the leaderboard.

Dr Eva Orsmond as Mary Poppins joined Teresa with just 12 points.

Red Rock star Denise McCormack rumba as a hobbit won 26 points.

Comedian Des Bishop did his best James Bond impression to Sam Smith’s Writing’s on the Wall from Spectre, which bagged 23 points.

Episode Five airs this evening (Sunday) on RTE at 6.30pm.