Remember when Abby Lee Miller announced that she was leaving Dance Moms to do something bigger and better during the 5th season’s final episode? Well here’s a shocker, she lied. OK, it isn’t a shocker but she did lie. That’s because tonight she Tweeted, “Started filming season 6 today of #DanceMoms! Get excited!!!”
I was kind of looking forward to Dance Moms without her. Between the show getting more scripted and her overacting, I was ready for something smaller and better. Oh well, as much as I say I won’t watch, I will.
Now, when it comes to which moms will be returning, that she didn’t say. But I think we can all agree, to her the show is only about Maddie and her and the rest of them are just background noise who don’t need to be there and are replaceable.
Ever since Dance Moms has started, it seems like Abby Lee Miller has never really been supportive of her student Nia. Now, that Chloe, Paige and Brooke left the show, it appears that Nia has been the primary target of the dance teacher’s. Her mom, Holly, has remained quiet for most of the show’s run; but since the new season started, she found her voice. Several times Holly has confronted Miller and the dance teacher has in turn taken it out on Nia.
Recently, the show relocated from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles, so that the girls could have more opportunities. Miller hasn’t done anything for Nia, so Holly took things into her own hands. She made some calls and got Nia into a recording studio with Aubrey O’Day. Abby tried to sabotage the meeting with a phone call to O’Day that was seen on the episode, but it didn’t work.
When Nia returned to dance studio, Abby said she would not be dancing in the group number. Basically, she punished the preteen for going behind her back to do something she wasn’t helping her do. How can Nia not be mad at the woman who is supposed to be her teacher, but doesn’t do anything but her put her down time and time again.
Well, Lifetime released a deleted scene from yesterday’s episode and we finally hear from Nia. While she was playing a clip of her song for the girls and the other dance moms, she voiced her opinion about the woman who is supposed to be her manager and help her. She said, “I did that without Abby too. You don’t need Abby to do everything. You can do stuff by yourself. You can do just fine.” You tell them girl because yes, you can and you totally did.
Now, I have to wonder why didn’t Lifetime air this scene? Is it because they don’t want to show that some of the girls are sick of, what I perceive as, being bullied by Abby Lee Miller? You never hear them talk bad about her, but here is the proof that at least one of them has on one occasion. I wonder if some of the other girls feel the same way. I am sure they do. I know I want to see more clips like this on the show. This season has gotten very hard for me to watch. The amount yelling, name-calling and puts downs, I see come from Abby are sickening. It used to be an even mix of that and the dancing, but now I feel it is all about Abby losing her temper. I think if things don’t change soon in the editing of the show, more people like me will stop watching. If we stop watching, then the show gets cancelled. If the show gets cancelled, then how will artists like Sia find the subjects for their music videos? That’s right, I read somewhere that Sia Tweeted Maddie that she wanted her in the music video, and she didn’t go through Abby to do it initially. Just saying.
Are you feeling the same way I am about the turn Dance Moms has taken this season?
MasterChef Junior is back with another scrumptious season on Fox tonight at 8p and you want to see what they have cooked up for us.
This season’s 19 contestants consist of two 8-year-olds; four 9-year-olds; three 10-year-olds; five 11-year-olds and five 12-year-olds. One of those 8-year-olds is the show’s youngest competitor to date and he is also the littlest one yet. So little, he has problems lifting up the box to reveal the items in that week’s Mystery Box Challenge. Before you feel bad for Riley, don’t because he is one tough competitor. All of these pre-teens prove to be excellent Chefs. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if most of them can cook better than you and me.
On tonight’s episode, they start with a Mystery Box Challenge that ends with a MasterChef Junior first. Then for the elimination challenge, the contestants have to make a pasta dish from scratch. To anyone who has tried to make the pasta, you know it is not easy. Yet they make it seem that way. Finally, the show concludes with a multiple elimination and a lot of tears. So have the tissues ready. But it OK to cry a little bit because the rest of the episode makes you smile. MasterChef Junior is pure happiness, and we all need more of that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxwm35KthnQ
Then at 9p, it is time for a show that instead of pumping kids up, it seems to destroy their spirits. That’s right, Dance Moms is back for season 5 on Lifetime, and it is time for this show to end.
When it first started out, it was fun because it was about the dancers. Now it is all about the conflicts.
First, they introduced Cathy. Then when Abby Lee Miller and her didn’t get along, they turned her into an evil witch that fights with Abby and the moms in every episode she appears in. When the show couldn’t do that every week, they created a new team to compete with the elite dance team. Proving to be a failure, they ended that. Another way to bring conflict to the show was to bring in other dancers so that their mom’s could fight with moms that were already on the show. But that wasn’t enough, when one of the original moms got into a confrontation with Abby Lee and it became national news, the show decided to do more of that. On the season 4 finale, Christi got into a verbal argument with Abby Lee over how she treat her daughter Chloe. Words were said by the dance teacher that were so awful, they walked out.
Did that mean they walked off the show permanently? In tonight’s episode, we find out yes they did. Now the remaining moms are saying that the two other moms are trying to shut down Abby’s studio and bad mouth them whenever they can. Well, it stops for a little while because one of the past dancers of the week returns to cause more friction between the moms. It works, but the show doesn’t anymore.
It is all so staged. I wouldn’t mind it, if it wasn’t such a hateful show. As the show has gone on, it appears to me that Abby Lee Miller has gotten so much worse to the girl. She belittles them all the time and destroys their confidence whenever she can. Unless their name is Maddie or Mackenzie. It is disgusting and I don’t know how anyone can be OK with that being their perceived persona. I wouldn’t want my image to be that of an older woman who seems to enjoy screaming at and harassing little girls. Would you?
Another thing that drives me crazy about her, is she constantly tells these girls, who are not even teenagers, to stop crying. It is for their pillows at night. But when the press shows up at her door, while she’s at a competition with the girls, she starts to cry in front of them. What is good for the goose, I guess is not good for the gander.
The other thing I hate about the perception I have of her, it is OK for her to bully these pre-teens, but it is not OK for anyone else to bully her. The second anyone does, she calls the cops or authorities.
I don’t know why I still watch this show, but for some reason I do. If you are stronger than me, then I am telling you to stop watching it. Maybe if you did, she would stop treating the kids the way that she does for television. I worry about the impact her words will have on them as they grow up. We have all been scarred by a teacher, but for most of us it ends after a year. These girls have multiple years with her.
So once again, I beg you not to watch. Because if you don’t, then maybe Lifetime will be put it out of my misery.
Although, I have a feeling this season with them going to LA might change the show enough that people will tune out. At least I pray it does.
One last thing, I am so sick of her saying how she has made stars. Who? There were kids from my JHS that were part of an Oscar winning documentary about dance called He Makes Me Feel Like Dancing. And you know the guy who won Dancing with the Stars this season? Well, Alfonso Ribiero, also went to my JHS. So I think I went to the same school with bigger dancers than the ones she produced. I am sure if I did the research, I would find out that a few Broadway stars also went to my elementary or JHS. Not bragging, just proving a point. I am not putting down her past dancers, BTW.
I don’t think she made these girls stars, the show did. I mean do you really think that Maddie would’ve been in Sia’s video if it wasn’t for Dance Moms? I am sure if the show didn’t exist the singer would’ve found another dancer to have star in the video for Chandelier. Don’t you agree?
I guess I am not hip because I didn’t know that Sia’s Chandelier video was a big thing and it stars Maddie from Dance Moms. Well it is and it has 50 million views already.
Anyways, Sia was a performer on Jimmy Kimmel Live yesterday and he asked Maddie to teach Guillermo and him the dance she does in the video. Just like any lyrical number, it was beautiful! Both men are natural born dancers.
It wasn’t their dancing that was my biggest take away from this bit, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Maddie doesn’t take after Abby Lee Miller when it comes to being a dance teacher. As in she doesn’t scream at her students and belittle them. That is a really positive thing!
Yesterday the loud mouth Abby Lee Miller was a guest judge on Dancing with the Stars and to say she didn’t flop would be a big fat lie, like you know.
Besides the mouth of Dance Moms being on the ABC show, so were her students and their moms. Although it was obvious that Christi and her daughter, Chloe, were missing. So where were the blondes? Christi took to Twitter today to say she doesn’t support people who treats her kids poorly. My hat is off to her for taking that stand. The way that the dance teacher treats Chloe, Nia and Kendall is disgusting and the moms need to protect their girls.
To see how awkward Abby Lee’s appearance was on DWTS, then you can watch it below:
BTW Last night I watched Dancing with the Stars for the first time in a few seasons and I am so happy I gave it up. Next season there is a new Executive Producer coming to the show, and I hope they make some big changes. I’ve said it before and I will say it again, they need to get rid of the judges and the pros that have been on the show forever. As good as Derek Hough, Mark Ballas and Cheryl Burke might be, their choreography doesn’t change. They need fresh blood on the dance floor and according to Abby Lee Miller her students are up for the job. Where are these students and why have none of them spoken up to praise her. Or at least I have never heard them saying anything about her. Have you?
