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marigold:
An interesting article:

DWTS’ Warren Sapp: Always Ready for Game Day

Between making it all the way to finals of Dancing with the Stars and handling football analyst duties, former Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Warren Sapp hasn’t fumbled yet.

After performing on Mondays and returning to the ballroom for the results show Tuesdays, Sapp gets back to his day jobs–analyzing football on Showtime’s Inside the NFL (which airs Wednesdays) and the NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football, plus Sunday’s NFL GameDay Morning.

“If I haven’t fallen over right now,” Sapp tells PEOPLE, “I don’t think I will!”

On the set of NFL GameDay Morning in Culver City, Calif., Sapp is dressed in a tailored brown suit and looking remarkably alert for a guy who got up at 4:30 in the morning after a week filled with flights and dancing practice.

It’s because even though the 35-year-old analyst loves to dance, he really loves to talk gridiron. “Football is my life,” he says. “Football is my love and passion forever. Dancing is something that’s given me an appetite for something that I didn’t know anything about.”

Not surprising, Sapp’s new Dancing fan base would be equally entertained should they catch him on any given Sunday. “He is so unique,” says NFL GameDay Morning executive producer Eric Weinberger. “He just has the ability to keep you on the edge of your seat with what he’s going to say, and his facial expressions are great.”

But one person who hasn’t quite picked up on the football talk is Sapp’s DWTS partner, Kym Johnson. By his own admission, Sapp has taught her “nothing,” he says, “and I don’t want to start because they play Australian Rules over there. Now that’s real football!”

Link: http://tvwatch.people.com/2008/11/24/dwts-warren-sapp-always-ready-for-game-day/

marigold:
An interesting article:

DWTS' Brooke Burke: If I Lose, I Want Lance Bass to "Take It Home"

Dancing With the Stars' Brooke Burke is determined to win Tuesday's finale.

"I gotta bring that trophy home! I gotta represent - last girl standing!" she said on L.A.'s MY FM 104.3 FM on Monday. "Anything can happen on a show like this. We've seen it in the past."

In the off chance that she doesn't win, she says she wants Lance Bass to score the discoball trophy.

He and his partner Lacey Schwimmer "have been the underdogs," Burke says. "Lance and I are good friends -- he's a great guy. And I guess if it can't be me, I'd want Lance to take it home."

She adds that she's relieved the season is winding down.

"You push your body to the limit, and you just start tearing down," she says. "We are all fried!

"As much as it's bittersweet, we are going to breath the deepest breath ever," she says.

How is she prepping for the tonight?

"I'm gonna get into a nice hot bath...relax my body, stretch out, and then it's really mental," she said.

Adds Burke (who plans to dance a freestyle and samba routine tonight with partner Derek Hough): "It's just about really enjoying it and relaxing and ringing it out. Cause we only have two dances left!"

Rooting for Burke in the audience tonight? Daughters Heaven, 22 months, Neriah, 8, Sierra, 6, and son Shaya, 8 months, and fiance David Charvet.

"My kids love it!" Burke says of the show. "My older girls are all into dance now, and my little one is like, ''Mama, dance!'"

But, Burke says, "I'm not going to miss the endless hours of rehearsing. My kids have missed a lot of mommy time, and that's been the hardest part for me."

Link: http://www.usmagazine.com/news/brooke-burke-if-i-lose-i-want-lance-bass-to-take-it-home

marigold:

Dancing with the Stars Video Game

A look at the Dancing with the Stars Video Game with Brooke and Derek

marigold:
An interesting article:

EXCLUSIVE: DWTS' Lance Bass Takes Us Inside Tonight's Season Finale

Lance Bass is keeping an exclusive diary only on Usmagazine.com about his experience competing on Dancing With the Stars. Here are his thoughts on tonight's season finale.

WELCOME TO THE FINALE!
This journey has definitely been a difficult one for me – I'm physically, mentally and emotionally worn out – but to know that all my hard work paid off makes me so happy! Being sent through to the finals first last week was such an honor and it just tells me that the judges really believe in me. It was the first time I thought to myself ‘wow, we could win this! Maybe it isn’t just Brooke [Burke]’s competition.’ I don't really have any fears going into tonight.

FINAL THREE FRIENDSHIPS
Brooke and I have become best friends through this. From day one, we’ve been such a support system for each other and we're excited to go into the finale together. Warren’s so much fun and so hilarious. I think they both might do some of the tour dates with me, because I've been telling them how much of a bonding experience it is.

TAKIN' IT WAY BACK
I’m sooo excited to perform our freestyle hip-hop routine tonight to Run DMC's "Tricky"! We choreographed it Wednesday night and it’s really fun! I went back and watched Julianne [Hough] and Apollo [Anton Ohno]’s hip-hop freestyle from the season four finale. Our routine totally reminds me of theirs, which is great, because they got all 10s. If Len gave them a 10, it’s possible for me to get one, too. And I’ve added a lot of NSYNC choreography, including a really cool stomp routine we did to open our Pop Odyssey tour in 2001.

JITTERBUG 2.0
On Wednesday, we get to dance to a past performance of our choosing. The jive, jitterbug, tango and the mambo are my favorites, but we're going to do our jitterbug again. I’ve been polling the fans to see who likes what, and most people wanted me to do the jitterbug again -- they thought it was hilarious that my shoe fell off. They’re like ‘if your shoe stays on,’ Len [Goodman]’s [original score of] 9 will turn into a 10.' I think that dance is the best way to go to get that good score we’ve been striving for.

TROPHY TALK
If I win the disco ball trophy tomorrow night, I’m going to put it on my mantle. I’ve already got a place picked out. And I've always said that if I won, I’m going to cut it in half and give half of it to [my best friend and band mate] Joey [Fatone], because I think he deserved to win three seasons ago.

Link: http://www.usmagazine.com/news/lance-bass-dwts-diary-finale

marigold:
An interesting article:

Dancing Finalists Ready To Rumba at Finale

The seventh season of Dancing With the Stars has been marked by ambulance rides, Hurricane Cloris and the news that one of the pros won’t be returning. But with the finale looming, the three stars left all can agree on one thing — it’s anybody’s disco ball.

“It’s one of those rare instances on this show where it’s a finale where no one knows what’s going to happen,” Brooke Burke tells PEOPLE. “We all bring something different to the competition and I always thought that Warren [Sapp] would make it to the end because he’s such a crowd-pleaser and he has that infectious smile, but Lance really has surprised everyone in the past few weeks.”

“It’s crazy,” Lance Bass says, echoing Burke’s assessment. “Brooke’s been the one to beat the entire season — the judges absolutely love her — and Warren is so much fun to watch, but I really think that it’s anyone’s game and what it’s going to come down to is the people voting.”

The three couples each have three chances to impress the judges and the voters on Monday’s finale, which will feature a group “Samba Smackdown,” a Freestyle dance and a surprise “repeat” dance. The heavy load of choreography left each of the celebrities cramming, but confident.

“This whole entire season I didn’t think that I had a chance in hell,” Bass admits. “But I feel like I have a really good chance now. I’m here to win this thing and my confidence could not be higher going into the finals.”

Sapp is equally sure of his chances. “Nothing worries me in this competition,” the former NFL star says, “because in my old job, I have two 300-pounders trying to smash my head in. No one expected me to be where I’m at, so I’ve already won!”

“We put in a lot of extra hours over the weekend,” Burke says of her work with partner Derek Hough. “Our freestyle is really ambitious, a bit dangerous and naturally I’m nervous. But I don’t feel the same pressure that I felt all season long. At this point I feel like we’ve already made it.”

Link: http://tvwatch.people.com/2008/11/24/dancing-finalists-ready-to-rumba-at-finale/

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