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"Dancing with Stars" Season 7
marigold:
The View with DWTS Season 7 Winners
Part 1
Part 2
marigold:
Good Morning America with DWTS Final 3
Part 1
Part 2
RealityFreakWill:
Season 7 DANCING WITH THE STARS CHAMPIONS
Brooke Burke & Derek Hough
RealityFreakWill:
Derek's myspace bulletin post:
A BIG thank you to the fans!!!
Hello all,
I just wanted to drop a quick note and thank all of you for watching, supporting and most of all VOTING!!! We couldn't have done it without your help!!! Brooke and I had such a blast, and hope that you guys had fun with us too!!
DWTS tour rehearsals start on Friday, and the tour starts in mid December. I wont have a lot of down time, but I will try to update you guys as often as possible.
I hope to see alot of you out on the road!!
Happy Thanksgiving to all!!
Thanks for the support!!!
Derek
marigold:
An interview with Carrie Ann:
Carrie Ann Inaba Defends 'Dancing' Judging
Another season of “Dancing with the Stars” is behind us, and no one can argue that this year's winner Brooke Burke was the best overall dancer.
But each season fans complain that the show is a popularity contest rather than a dance contest, and that the judges manipulate the scores to direct the course of the show.
It's just a reality show, a hugely entertaining one that draws around 20 million viewers a week, but I decided to get to the bottom of the conspiracy talk.
I chatted with “Dancing” judge Carrie Ann Inaba to get the perspective from the other side of the judges' table.
Tracy Phillips: There’s been some criticism from the fans this season for inconsistent judging, uneven scores and playing favorites. What do you say to that?
Carrie Ann Inaba: “I never know what’s going on, I don’t watch TV while the show’s going on, so I don’t get tainted by other peoples’ opinions. I try to remain very neutral.
What I can say about the judging is that we all speak from our hearts. We all come from dance backgrounds, we all have a lot of compassion for these people, but our job is to give critiques on what we see.
So I’m not exactly sure what the feedback has been, but that’s what is great about our show is that we encourage people to do that, we encourage people to have their own thoughts. People get a little heated at times, but even though I’m giving my opinion, or Len is giving his, we’re not saying our opinion is the only one.
We give America their chance to vote. So it’s really a democracy, they get their own say and that is what’s fun about it."
TP: Tom, Len and Bruno said you have a crush on Warren Sapp. Is it hard to judge if you have a favorite contestant?
CAI: “I know they think it’s so easy, everyone teases me, ‘He winked at you and you gave him a good score”…but Ooohh Noooo, it takes more than a wink to get a good score out of me!”
TP: What do you think of the news that Julianne Hough isn’t coming back next year?
CAI: “I just heard that. I would be sad, because I think she’s an amazing dancer. And she’s such a great coach. But at same time, I’m really happy for her, because she’s a dancer who is moving into new areas, and I’m sure she’s going to go on and do even more.”
TP: Would you like to see a “Dancing with the Stars: All-Star Edition,” where the previous winners and some of the should-have-wons come back and compete against each other?
CAI: “I would love to see that! But even more so, I’d like to see the ones who got cut on the first week come back and battle it out to see who can last more than one week. You know, Kenny Mayne, Tucker Carlson, the kind of quirky people who didn’t really get a chance to shine, and who we didn’t get to know, I’d like to see them have a second chance.”
Link: http://thebiz.fancast.com/2008/11/carrie_ann_inaba_defends_danci.html
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