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Melissa Rycroft, former star of ABC’s Dancing With The Stars and The Bachelor is engaged, PEOPLE Magazine has learned.
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Dancing With The Stars judge Len Goodman has had surgery to remove a cancerous tumour in his prostate gland.

The 65-year-old underwent an operation three weeks ago at a Bupa Hospital in Blackheath, London.

Len was diagnosed with the disease following a routine check-up in March, but he put off treatment until he had finished filming the current season of DWTS.

“I could have said “sorry” and not done the show, but the doctors felt I wasn’t riddled with it and it wasn’t so far advanced that it was a life-or-death scenario,” Len told the Mail On Sunday.

“It takes a few weeks to get everything set up for the operation anyway, so I went ahead and did the show. I had the surgery done as soon as I got back from America.”

Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff are making their Broadway debut this summer. The engaged stars of ABC’s ballroom reality series, Dancing With The Stars, will appear in Burn The Floor, a Broadway dance showcase opening next month.

Maks and Karina will star in the show for the first three weeks of its run, which kicks off at New York’s Longacre Theatre on July 25 for previews and officially opens on August 2.

For Ticket Info, Visit BurnTheFloor.com

Danny Gokey is hanging up his mic and lacing up his dancing shoes.

The spectacled second runner-up on the eighth season of American Idol — whose dance moves were critically-panned by the Idol judges — will join the cast on the upcoming ninth season of the ABC ballroom reality show Dancing With The Stars, The National Enquirer has learned. Read the rest of this entry »

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Vera Wang is about to give Dancing With The Stars an extra dose of style. The former Vogue editor and reigning queen of wedding gown designers has signed on to show off her jive on the ninth season of ABC ballroom dance reality series, E! is reporting.

The 59-year-old — who once trained to become a professional figure skater — is the first star to sign up for the new season of the show, which will premiere on September 21.

Shawn Johnson’s Dancing With the Stars victory is already is shambles…literally. The mirrored disco ball trophy the pint-sized gymnast received after winning last month’s competition on ABC is currently being repaired after it was damaged while traveling cross-country from New York to Los Angeles.

A crushed Shawn called her partner with the news. “I was like, ‘My trophy’s broke!’”

“It’s actually in pieces right now,” her pro partner, Mark Ballas, revealed at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday. “We had to take them to New York and they shipped them back and when they opened the box, they were in pieces,” he continued. “They’re fixing them.”

Shawn throws like a girl…. Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast and reigning Dancing With The Stars champion Shawn Johnson threw out the ceremonial first pitch before the start of the baseball game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday, June 1.

The Diamondbacks went on to beat the Dodgers 3-2

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Dancing With The Stars pros and real-life couple Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy have revealed to PEOPLE.com that they will tie the knot next June.

“If it was just friends and family that would be one thing, but there are so many people telling us, ‘We’ll be there, we want to come!’ So we said, Okay, the wedding is turning out to be a bigger production,” Maksim explains. “We want to take our time. You don’t want to piss anybody off or hurt anybody.”

Maks also announced that he and Karina are looking to hire a wedding planner, telling PEOPLE:

“We are currently interviewing a few wedding planners because we figure we could use professional help.”

Samantha Harris is bound for Broadway.

The two-time Emmy-nominated co-host of Dancing With The Stars will make her debut on the Great White Way this summer, when she takes on the role of the murderous Roxie Hart in the Tony Award-winning musical Chicago.

Samantha’s Broadway run begins July 7 and runs through August 16.

For ticket information, visit www.chicagothemusical.com.

(Does anyone else find her incredibly annoying?)

Mark Ballas and gymnast Shawn Johnson, the winners of Dancing With The Stars Season 8, showed off the fancy footwork that earned them a mirrror ball trophy live on Regis & Kelly Wednesday morning.