It’s Latin Dance Week on Dancing With The Stars and Mya’s sexy rumba with pro partner Dmitry Chaplin earned the “Fallen” singer the first 10s of the season on last night’s show.
“I had chills the whole time,” said judge Carrie Ann Inaba, who gave the couple a 10. Judge Bruno Tonioli agreed, saying, “You put all of America in the mood for love… fabulous,” before also presenting the couple with a 10. The sometimes hard-nosed Len Goodman gave them a score of 7, criticizing Chaplin for his over-complicated choreography.
Has Dancing With The Z-Listers claimed another casuality? Aaron Carter has been injured on the set of ABC’s ballroom reality competition, Dancing With The Stars.
A rep for the singer tells The Insider that the crooner injured his knee this afternoon during rehearsal with his partner Karina Smirnoff. While medics tried icing Aaron’s bum knee, he may not dance on tonight’s show.
Aaron is the latest of several competitors on the ninth season of Dancing With The Stars to suffer series-related injuries; former House Majority Leader Tom Delay and Entourage star Debi Mazar have also been injured in rehearsals for the show in recent weeks.
Dancing With The Stars pro Lacey Schwimmer is stepping into a new career as a pop diva.
Lacey hopes to follow the steps to success first achieved by DWTS-hoofer-turned-country-cutie Julianne Hough and Hough Ballas Band by dancing her way to a successful music career, Life & Style claims.
Lacey is signed to WMS Entertainment Group and EMC Bower and is ready her debut album for a 2010 release. Read the rest of this entry »
Hey guys, did you catch Selena Gomez’s live performance on Dancing With The Stars earlier this evening? The Disney teen star turned the show out with a rendition of her hit single “Falling Down.”
Tonight’s bottom three came down to Kathy, Debi Mazar, and Louie Vito. Unfortunately, it would be the last dance for lackluster former model Kathy Ireland, who was given her walking papers from the ballroom competition after tying with former Congressional “Hammer” Tom DeLay for the lowest score of the night — an 18 — on Monday’s performance show.
Dancing With The Casualities has claimed another victim. Exuberant ballroom diva Lacey Schwimmer has “severely strained” muscles in her hips while rehearsing for the ninth season of ABC’s hit reality dance competition, Dancing With The Stars, according to RadarOnline.
The dancer — who is back for her sophomore season on DWTS — strained her hip flexors and abductors while rehearsing with her partner, Iron Chef star Mark Descascos. Lacey will require three weeks of physical therapy and stem shock treatment to stregthen the muscles. Lacey plans to dance her way through treatment.
“I’m doing OK, in a lot of pain but hey — that’s a dancer’s life,” Lacey tells Radar. “Thanks for all your positive thoughts.”
Dancing With The Stars airs Monday Tuesday nights on ABC.
Following elimination, Dancing With The Stars contestants traditionally swing by Jimmy Kimmel Live! for their first post-ousting razing. But on Wednesday night, only three of the four scheduled guests walked out on stage.
After being the first woman eliminated on the ninth season of DWTS, “I Try” singer Macy Gray was reportedly too distraught to appear on the program.
“Macy’s absolutely torn up about being eliminated,” Macy’s professional partner Jonathan Roberts explained. “She put her whole heart into the show. She feels like she let her fans down.”
“What’s a Grammy compared to a mirror ball?” he joked.
“It’s been cool,” Macy said just after learning that she and actor Ashley Hamilton would be the first stars to go home. “Ballroom isn’t my calling exactly, but I learned a little bit and we had a good time.”
Dancing With The Stars wrapped up its three-night season premiere on Wednesday with two eliminations — and a tribute to a dancing cowboy.
Ashley Hamilton, the son of former DWTS competitor George Hamilton and model Alana Stewart, was the first from the celebrity males to go. Also eliminated was Grammy-winning singer Macy Gray, which took last season’s winning professional Jonathan Roberts out of the competition.
In addition to the eliminations, Dancing paid tribute to Patrick Swayze. The late actor — who died of pancreatic cancer last week — was a supporter of the program and even visited DWTS during its first season.
Several of the show’s professionals recreated some of Swayze’s most memorable numbers for the touching tribute.
“We’re honored and privileged to be able to do that for him, his family, and all of his fans,” Derek Hough said.
Professional Maksim Chmerkovskiy added, “I wish we could also do a Michael Jackson tribute.”
Rocker wildchild Kelly Osbourne ruled the dance floor with a powerful Viennese Waltz on Tuesday night’s premiere of Dancing With The Stars 9, immediately sailing into the good graces of sharp-tongued judges, Carrie-Ann, Len, and Bruno. But, in a new interview with Closer Magazine, Kelly, says its anything but smooth sailing with much of the rest of the cast.
“When I first started the rehearsals, I thought the other contestants were all lovely, but it’s suddenly become much more competitive and there’s a bit of bullying going on behind the scenes,” Kelly says. “There’s a rumor floating around that one of the celeb dancers has been having secret lessons for two years! That is so not fair.”
Dancing With The Stars Season 9 contestant Debi Mazar was rushed to the hospital following her performance on the premiere show. “i’m ok.torn muscle in neck to chest!Foxtrot..cruel&sadistic If only judges knew,” the Entourage star Tweeted Wednesday.
The actress also attached a photo of herself wearing a neck brace. Nonetheless, Debi is expected to continue competing and is already on the set preparing for tonight’s results show. She and pro partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy earned a score of 16 for their salsa on Night 2 of DWTS’ three-part season premiere.
Eat your heart out, Maks! Newly-single Dancing With The Stars pro Karina Smirnoff is kicking off her dancing shoes — along with everything else — in a new PETA campaign — “I’d Rather Dance Naked Than Wear Fur” — shot by celebrity photographer Robert Sebree.
The stunning 31-year-old stopped wearing fur after watching footage of baby seals being killed for their pelts.
“I did wear fur, especially when I was growing up in the Ukraine,” the fancy-footed beauty reveals in an interview with PETA. “But there are ways of being warm and being fashionable without being cruel.”
Smirnoff joins a growing list of celebrities–including Christina Applegate, Sophie Monk, Khloe Kardashian, Nia Long, and Kimora Lee Simmons –who have starred in PETA’s anti-fur ad campaign.
