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"Dancing with Stars" Season 7
marigold:
An interview with Maurice and Cheryl:
“Nothing is ever given to you in life”
How are you feeling about being eliminated?
Maurice: I’m okay, you know it’s all okay.
Cheryl: Oh, it’s okay.
Do you feel the experience changed you in any way?
Maurice: I don’t know, did I change?
Cheryl: I didn’t know you before (laughs).
Maurice: I have always been a confident person and never looked at something going into as going to fail, I go in to conquer it. That is my mentality. I learned one thing though and that is nothing is ever given to you in life - you have to work for each and everything you get. That is what I came out to do, I worked to get as far as we did and had fun doing it.
Cheryl: Well not knowing him before I can say his dancing has improved. He’s always been fun and positive and a great influence in my life in that way. With all the crap that has been put out about me this season, the last thing I wanted to do was go into the studio and work. Maurice made look forward to doing it every day and put the best smile on my face and made me forget about all the other crap going around.
How has the experience of the show been for you?
Maurice: It’s a roller-coaster ride filled with ups and downs, but at the end of every coaster, you feel good. Feel good. This was a challenge and a blast. I was able to conquer the things I need to and I feel I succeed and didn’t fail.
Cheryl: You didn’t fail. You worked so hard. I am so proud of him as he worked so hard. The hours he put in… he said he went through ups and downs but no matter what he can hold his head high. He made it through every week.
The party isn’t over though because you both have the tour coming up together now?
Cheryl: Yes, I am doing the tour now as of today.
Maurice: Well, I told them I wouldn’t dance with any one else but her, so I am very happy. This is my partner.
What are you most looking forward to about it?
Maurice: The experience that is what it is all about. I have toured for running, but nothing like this.
Cheryl: It’s going to be really cold.
Maurice: But I am from Kentucky so it’s okay.
Link: http://www.intouchweekly.com/2008/11/dancing_with_the_starsnothing.php
marigold:
An interesting article:
Tuesday’s Dancing: What You Didn’t See
The Ballroom Sprint Is Over: Maurice Greene’s run on the parquet ended Tuesday, but the Olympic sprinter handled his DWTS ouster with the same grace and million-dollar-watt smile that carried him through to the brink of the semifinals. “You have to remember this is a competition, and you just have to take it as it comes, and tonight just wasn’t my night,” a still-smiling Greene told PEOPLE. The Olympic gold medalist’s departure left nary a dry eye in the house. “This is the first time that I actually saw people crying backstage,” Lance Bass said. “Everyone was tearing up, Warren, Maurice, Cheryl. At this point, we’re a family and we’ve all become really close, and when you see a member of your family leaving, it’s just sad.” Saddest of all was Greene’s daughter 9-year-old daughter Ryan. “That’s my daughter,” a misty-eyed Greene said, “I really thought that she looked more upset than I did, so I had to comfort her a little bit, let her know that Dad was going to be alright.”
The Cry-Fest Continues: Greene’s exit wasn’t the only teary moment of the night. In their taped segment with Dr. Drew Pinsky, partners Julianne Hough and Cody Linley both broke down in a rare show of emotion. “I had so much bottled up,” Linley later admitted. “The stress, the pressure and all of these feelings about Julianne that I hadn’t expressed. My worries for her about her surgery….” The crying jag had a profound effect on the partners in that it brought them closer together. “I think that it was a bonding experience, and that we’re connected on a deeper level than we were before,” said the Hannah Montana star. But then reality settled in: the repercussions of sobbing on national TV. “I’ve got four brothers and no sisters,” Linley said. “So after it happened and I looked up to the four cameras and I was crying, I was like, ‘Crap! This is all going to be on TV!’” Linley attempted a preemptive strike by texting his brother and admitting, “Yeah, I cried today at work, and they caught it on camera.’” Linley continued, “At first, he was like, ‘It’s okay, don’t worry about it.’, but five minutes later, he sent me a text that said, ‘Was it a little cry, or was it a cry that had a squeal to it?’”
Julianne Jumps Back In: Two weeks after surgery to remove her appendix, Julianne Hough was back on the dancefloor last night performing an unbelievable Macy’s Stars of Dance segment that featured flips and dancing while carrying brother Derek on her shoulders. “It made my jaw drop,” co-host Samantha Harris said. “The fact that Julianne just had this surgery two weeks ago and she was throwing her body around like that, flipping around, it baffles me. But then I remember that she’s 20-years-old.” Added Bass, “To get your appendix out, and then have a guy jump off a piano and onto your shoulders? What the hell, my stitches would have burst wide open!”
Ballroom Bias: In Len Goodman taped judges’ segment, he openly admitted to starting the season being “anti” Lance and Lacey. “Maybe I did something to him in a past life,” Bass said. “Or maybe he was a Backstreet Boys fan, probably the president of their fan club, I don’t know. I’m just glad that we have two of the judges on our side.” His partner Lacey Schwimmer, however, is set on winning over the British curmudgeon. “I think we have to pucker up and put an apple on the judges’ desk next week.” Schwimmer said after Tuesday’s show. “Better yet, maybe some of my mom’s home-baked cookies. They are the best things, ever!”
Dr. Drew or Dr. Clueless?: Dr. Drew Pinsky’s couples’ therapy sessions provided resolution to some duos, but left one pair downright confused. “I actually think that he thought that Lance and I had a romantic connection,” Schwimmer said with a bemused smile. “He was like, ‘You guys are so intertwined as a couple, maybe you guys should reevaluate your relationship.’” Bass, who came out to PEOPLE in July 2006, could barely stifle a laugh, adding of Pinsky, “I don’t think that he got the memo that I was gay. Maybe he didn’t look at our file as closely as he should have.”
Link: http://tvwatch.people.com/2008/11/12/tuesdays-dancing-what-you-didnt-see-13/
marigold:
An interesting article:
Misty May-Treanor: The Dancing Stage Is Cursed
After numerous injuries to both the contestants and the pros, is it any wonder some think the Dancing with the Stars stage cursed?
“I’ve been joking that it’s like Phantom of the Opera,” former DWTS contestant Misty May-Treanor told PEOPLE at Monday’s Glamour Women of the Year Awards, where she was honored with volleyball partner Kerri Walsh. “Something’s going on with the stage. I’m just waiting for one of the stage lights to fall. But you know, it’s a sport and it’s difficult and it can really take a toll on your body. When you’re tired things happen.”
May-Treanor dropped out of the competition after rupturing her Achilles tendon, and is one of many casualties of the ballroom this season. Though it’s been over five weeks since bowing out of the show, the Olympic volleyball star is disappointed her time was cut short. “I want to go back! If I get eliminated I want to go out the right way, like I suck or they’re like, ‘boo!’ I don’t want to be like OK, I have to stop,” said May-Treanor.
Now that the competition is down to the final four, who does she think is going to win? “I mean, Brooke looks like she’s the front-runner,” she said. “But Cody, Julianne could come back out of nowhere. Lance doubts himself a lot but I like watching him and Lacey. They bring kind of an edginess to the ballroom. I have to cheer on the fellow athletes but I can’t pick just one person.”
The volleyball champ hobbled on crutches at the event and said she also gets around with the help of a wheelchair and scooter. She says she’s currently in physical therapy twice a week and hopes to be walking on her own again “in three or four weeks.”
Link: http://tvwatch.people.com/2008/11/12/misty-may-treanor-the-dancing-stage-is-cursed/
TARAsia Fan:
I feel bad Misty went out that way too. She was so obsessed with winning the show that she might have won this whole thing had her Achilles not given way. And I'm glad that she had won the gold medal in Communist China before this whole thing happened. Can you imagine if she was on the season before the Olympics? Man. I shudder to think.
marigold:
--- Quote from: TARAsia Fan on November 12, 2008, 08:48:15 PM ---I feel bad Misty went out that way too. She was so obsessed with winning the show that she might have won this whole thing had her Achilles not given way. And I'm glad that she had won the gold medal in Communist China before this whole thing happened. Can you imagine if she was on the season before the Olympics? Man. I shudder to think.
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It was nice to finally read something about her I did try her site and where she blogs but she had stopped giving updates.
Poor girl she was great!!
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