While "Sara" was being aired, with then 21 year-old Anthony in one of the main recurring parts, his first truly prominent TV exposure, he had to train and perform as participant in the celebrity dance contest "Sterren op de dansvloer" (2006), where he was the youngest participant and steadily survived -the only one never voted by the apparently adoring audience to endure a "dance off", an elimination round - until securing the crowning title to general acclamation.