She’s already got a Dancing With The Stars disco ball trophy and an Olympic gold medal to her credit and now Shawn Johnson’s hoping to add an Oscar to her collection.
The pint-sized gymnast has revealed that she is interested in breaking into acting. Shawn, 17, recently confirmed that she has been offered a lead role in an upcoming children’s film and is debating putting her college plans on hold to accept the part.
“I got an offer for a movie,” Shawn told reporters early this week, adding that she only has a month decide whether or not she’ll take the job. “It’s nerve-wrecking,” she says. “I have a lot of decisions to make.”
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.
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.
Gold medal-winning gymnast Shawn Johnson can add dance champ to her list accolades. The Olympic champion sailed to the top of leaderboard winning the eighth season of ABC’s Dancing With The Stars on Tuesday night. Read the rest of this entry »
Just five days before trying to break onto the Dancing With the Stars set with kidnapping gear and several loaded firearms, accused Shawn Johnson stalker Robert O’Ryan was stopped by police in Alabama– -and released. In an interview captured on a policeman’s dash camera on March 19, the troubled man can be heard talking about the gymnast with officers. Read the rest of this entry »
Shawn Johnson has a stalker and he’s Coo-Coo for Coco Puffs!
The Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast has obtained a restraining order against a pistol-toting man who is accused of trying to crash the set of Dancing with the Stars on Monday in hopes of meeting the 17-year-old contestant.
Sixteen-year-old Olympic medal-winning gymnast Shawn Johnson made a cameo appearance on last night’s midseason finale of The Secret Life of the American Teenager.
Sixteen-year-old Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Shawn Johnson will make a guest appearance on the mid-season finale of The Secret Life of the American Teenager, the ABC Family cable network confirmed on Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
Gold medal-winning gymnast Shawn Johnson discussed her experience at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics during an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman on Monday.
