Yesterday, was a Dancing with the Stars first. During the 23rd, yes 23rd, season premiere of DWTS, 2 men rushed the ballroom to attack Ryan Lochte as the judges were critiquing him.
We did not see it on the show because ABC kept video of the disgraced Olympian dancing with Cheryl Burke. We did hear Carrie Ann Inaba trying to tell the two men to stop.
They did not listen, so security tackled them and took them and the 4 women, who were also wearing, “No Lochte” shirts in the audience, away.
Then after a commercial break they went on as though nothing happened.
According to Good Morning America, Barzeen Soroudi and Sam Sotoodeh, were arrested and charged with a misdemeanor. LAPD told the ABC news show, there were “protesting Lochte because of the incident in Rio de Janeiro during the Summer Olympics, adding they felt it endangered Americans.” I think that explanation got lost in translation.
We knew that Lochte was going to be a talking point for the dancing competition show, we just never thought it would be about this. It will be interesting to see what happens next week because with this show, you never know!
[ # 1258349 ] Comment from xyz [September 13, 2016, 7:10 am]
All staged. Americans are naturally born actors.