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Dancing With The Stars Season 8
marigold:
Video:
Jewel sings with Chelsie Hightower at her concert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBnZr5e5clI
marigold:
Dancing With The Stars Numbers are up ( I'll add the 2 replacements once they are up )
About the Vote
HOW IT WORKS:
During the live shows, judges will give a score based on several factors, including technical execution. But the judges' scores alone do not decide a couple's fate.
Phone lines, text votes (AT&T customers only) and online polls will open at the top of each performance show so that viewers can vote for their favorites. Phone and text lines will stay open for 30 minutes after the end of the show. Online voting will remain open until noon (Eastern Time) the next day.
In the Dancing with the Stars Results Show*, the couple with the lowest combined score from judges and viewer votes will be eliminated from the competition**.
The scoring is divided evenly between the judges and the viewers at home, ensuring unpredictable outcomes at the end of every show. When the final two couples remain, the ultimate dance-off will determine who wins the trophy.
*The Dancing with the Stars Results Show will premiere Tuesday, March 17 at 9/8c.
**Week 2 - On Tuesday night, the two couples with the lowest combined score from judges and viewer votes will compete in a Dance Off. Their original set of judges scores will be tossed out and they will perform the same routine again for a new set of judges scores. The new set of scores will be combined with their viewer votes from Monday night and the couple with the lowest combined total will be eliminated.
Viewers can vote via phone, text message or online for their favorites ONLY on the night they perform.
PHONE/SMS NUMBERS:
COUPLE NAME PHONE NUMBER TEXT-IN CODE
Lil' Kim & Derek Hough 800-86834-01
800-VOTE4-01 3401
Belinda Carlisle & Jonathan Roberts 800-86834-02
800-VOTE4-02 3402
Lawrence Taylor & Edyta Sliwinska 800-86834-03
800-VOTE4-03 3403
Steve-O & Lacey Schwimmer 800-86834-04
800-VOTE4-04 3404
Gilles Marini & Cheryl Burke 800-86834-05
800-VOTE4-05 3405
Chuck Wicks & Julianne Hough 800-86834-06
800-VOTE4-06 3406
Ty Murray & Chelsie Hightower 800-86834-08
800-VOTE4-08 3408
Shawn Johnson & Mark Ballas 800-86834-09
800-VOTE4-09 3409
Steve Wozniak & Karina Smirnoff 800-86834-10
800-VOTE4-10 3410
David Alan Grier & Kym Johnson 800-86834-11
800-VOTE4-11 3411
Denise Richards & Maksim Chmerkovskiy 800-86834-12
800-VOTE4-12 3412
FORMAT SUMMARY:
Lines open at the beginning of each show for viewers to phone and text vote for their favorite couples and stay open for 30 minutes after the end. The whole country can vote.
One (or more) couple(s) will be knocked out of the competition each week there is a results show. The couple with the lowest overall score is knocked out of the competition.
The scoring and format of the show is unique to the series and is not based on a standard dance championship.
The decision regarding which dances are to be performed by each couple each week rests with the Producers.
THE PROCEDURE FOR ELIMINATING COUPLES:
Each week every couple receives points from the judges and votes from the public. For every couple we work out the share they got of the points given by the judges on the night, and the share they got of the public's votes on the night and we add these two shares together. The couple with the lowest combined total is eliminated from the show.
For example if couple A, B and C receive 38, 26 and 14 points from the judges, we calculate what share these points represent of the total awarded by the judges on the night. In this case the judges gave 78 points in total, and each couples' share of 78 points breaks down as follows: 38= 48.72% of 78, 26= 33.33% of 78, 14= 17.95% of 78. Let's suppose that when the public votes are tallied, each couple has the following shares: A= 20%, B=40%, C=40%. To determine who's eliminated we combine these two shares for the total:
Couple A: 20+48.72%= 68.72%
Couple B: 40+33.33%= 73.33%
Couple C: 40+17.95%= 57.95%
In this case, the bottom two couples would be A and C, and C would be eliminated.
marigold:
:ascared omg :groan:
Lacey stapling Steve-O
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaK4R1RN2Wg
RealityFreakWill:
A Night Out With Cheryl Burke and Kym Johnson:Kicking Up Their Heels
THE razzle-dazzle aside, ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” is more labor camp than reality show, at least for the professional hoofers who make the hit series run.
Each week, they choreograph new routines, coach the celebrities, take part in endless rehearsals, give interviews and — oh, yeah — perform in front of millions of viewers while wearing itty-bitty costumes. During the three-month hiatus between seasons, they anchor the “Dancing” arena tour, traveling by bus.
So Cheryl Burke and Kym Johnson, who have become minor celebrities in their own rights because of the show, decided last Saturday to take full advantage of a rare weekend off. The dancers, who are friends off camera, aimed their sky-high stilettos toward Sushi Roku, a popular entertainment industry hangout near their respective apartments.
Boyfriends were Topic A. The fiery Ms. Burke, part Filipino and part Russian, said she was very happy with her new man of two months, a model, while Ms. Johnson, an impossibly tall Australian blonde, reported that her boyfriend of nine months, a business executive, was still “serious hotness.”
Ms. Burke plucked a fat piece of bluefin sashimi with her chopsticks. “We’re still on for France, right?” she said. When “Dancing” wraps in May, the two couples plan to retreat to a spot near Cannes. Ms. Burke wanted to know if a side trip to Barcelona could be arranged. “I just saw the movie ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ and fell in love with that city,” she said.
Spain might be too ambitious, Ms. Johnson worried. “Whatever happened to our idea about driving an RV around the outback?” she said.
Ms. Burke said: “What’s your definition of outback? I know you, and you’re too high-maintenance for anything other than five-star hotels.” They laughed and asked for the check.
Next stop: MyHouse, a hipper-than-thou Hollywood nightclub that opened in January. (Paris and Audrina have been spotted.) Several hundred would-be starlets were clawing at the velvet ropes outside, but in the chaos Ms. Johnson managed to find a friend, Jack Ketsoyan, who is Tara Reid’s personal publicist and the owner of a makeup and styling agency. Mr. Ketsoyan knew a bouncer, who ushered the trio inside.
MyHouse is styled like a giant mansion, with a living room area downstairs (shag carpet and all) and a master bedroom upstairs (hot tub included). The dancers ordered a round of drinks, then headed to the V.I.P. bedroom, where they hopped on a bed covered in black leather. Before long, they were dancing on it — in heels — as a Mary J. Blige remix thundered overhead.
They didn’t dance much, deciding it would be more fun to people-watch in the living room. Soon the cattiness kicked in. “O.K., can that dress get any uglier?” Ms. Johnson said, nodding at a woman wearing what appeared to be a burlap sack adorned with bugle beads. “And look at the matching purse!”
Ms. Burke shook her head in pity. “It’s like something Cloris would wear,” she said, referring to Cloris Leachman, the 82-year-old actress who caused a stir last fall as a “Dancing” contestant.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/fashion/08night.html?_r=1
marigold:
The View Scheduled Guests For Tuesday, March 10 2009
Dancing with the Stars judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, and Len Goodman
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