Today at the ABC Press Tour the network announced who will be taking part in the Dancing with the Stars All-Star edition. The stars that will be back in the ballroom are Kirstie Alley, Pamela Anderson, Helio Castroneves, Joey Fatone, Shawn Johnson, Drew Lachey, Gilles Marini, Kelly Monaco, Apolo Anton Ohno, Bristol Palin, Melissa Rycroft and Emmitt Smith. While Sabrina Bryan, Carson Kressley and Kyle Massey are campaigning for that last spot to be part of the show. When it comes to who they will be dancing with that we will have to wait until August 13th to find out.
Just to give you a hint how much the show has grown over 15 seasons, the first mirror ball was actually a lamp shade painted gold. Now the show’s executive producer Conrad Green hinted that they might be changing that up this season, but they are not sure how.
One thing that won’t be changing is the judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonoli and Len Goodman. I asked Green if he would doing what shows like American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance and The Voice (in the spring) are doing and replacing their judges. He said, “I think that our judges are a huge strength of the show. I think consistency is a huge strength in these shows. Also the judges are an important part of this show. There is a lot going on our show. You’ve got 12/13 professional dancers, you’ve got 12/13 celebrities, you’ve got two hosts and three judges. So you don’t want to change everything every season, there is a lot of change already with our show each season. Actually the consistency of having such good judges, I think is a real positive for our show rather than chopping and changing the stunts every year.”
So if Conrad Green could cast any celebrity to do the show, who would it be? That person is one of the world’s biggest living celebrities former President Bill Clinton. I think he should do it, what about you?
This season on Dancing with the Stars Gavin McGraw, the man who sang the One Tree Hill theme, competed on the show and now the singer on the defunct CW drama makes his plea to be on the ABC reality show. Tyler Hilton posted the above video and said, “Here’s my ‘Dancing with The Stars’ audition vid.” I love the ways he moves so much, I say we have to get him on DWTS. Don’t you think you he is perfect for it?
BTW if you want to see him in person, here are his tour dates.
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So You Think You Can Dance’s Nigel Lythgoe and Dancing with the Stars’ Maria Menounus were photographed kissing and then with her on top of him and I have to wonder if the two of them have something to tell us? Probably not because he is almost twice her age and they were most likely doing something fun for his chat with her on Extra. Well that and I really hope not because we already know what they would look like in bed together from the last two pictures and I can’t get the image out of my head.
A few weeks ago Dancing with the Stars announced the Dance Duel, where the bottom two duel out in dance and the judges decide who stays. Last night Jaleel White was the second victim of the stupid new gimmick; and his partner Kym Johnson and him told Jimmy Kimmel how much they hate it and think that it is horrible.
I so agree with them because it gives the judges too much power and they keep they unknowns on the show and don’t let the people, who are keeping them employed, a say. I gave up the ABC reality show because I was sick of the judges biases and the Dance Duel confirms why I am no longer watching the show. Of the five contestants who are still competing, Melissa Gilbert is the only one we have heard of before the show and that is just sad. Seriously has anyone heard of that Disney guy who beat out Urkel yesterday? No. And will you hear from ever again after the show? Nope. And once the judges realize this is a show on television and not a real ballroom competition then maybe more stars will actually make it to the finals.
BTW I will start watching DWTS again when they replace the judges. Other shows have done it successfully and now it is time for ABC to do the same. I don’t think we will miss any of them when they are gone.
It used to be that every season there seemed to be a few contestants injured while doing Dancing with the Stars, but then it stopped for a while. That was until last week when Melissa Gilbert suffered a concussion and whiplash while performing on the show. And I guess her injuries restarted the curse because William Levy Tweeted yesterday, “Just Wanted to let u know that I injured my right ankle pretty bad during rehearsal.. MRI tomorrow. I’ll let u all know .. Love u all” The sexy model also Tweeted in Spanish that he hopes it isn’t a fracture. We won’t know the results of his MRI until tonight’s show because that is how ABC rolls.
So I guess we will find out tonight if Levy and Gilbert will have another twirl around the ballroom or if they are on the Disabled List.
BTW it looks like Jack Wagner and Sherri Shepard got out just in the nick of time.
