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marigold:
From tvguide:
Maks Stands By "Unfair" Melissa Comment While Stars Chime In
Leave it to Maksim Chmerkovskiy to get everyone riled up again.
The unabashedly honest Dancing with the Stars pro told TVGuide.com that Melissa Rycroft's dancing background gives her an "unfair" advantage over the rest of the cast — and he's not backing down.
"Let me be that voice of everybody who thinks [it] but won't say it," Chmerkovskiy tells Access Hollywood.
Au, contraire, Maks. It turns out other people will say it too.
"I mean, I can't compete next to someone that's had a lot of dance training," said his partner, Denise Richards.
And while country singer Chuck Wicks jokes, "Melissa is a better dancer than I am," his gal pal/pro partner, Julianne Hough, admits that "compared to everybody else, there is a huge difference in ability."
Rycroft and partner Tony Dovolani, who've placed second in the standings the past two weeks, say they don't understand where the criticism is coming from, since Chmerkovskiy has had his share of experienced partners.
"Well, I would love to say to Maks, 'How about Mel?'" Dovolani said, referring to Spice Girl Mel B., who finished second with Chmerkovskiy in Season 5. "That's all I'm going to say."
Chmerkovskiy concedes that his opinion doesn't matter in the long run. "Does she have dance training? Of course. But it doesn't matter if the people love what she does," he says. "You know, Mazel Tov to her, as we say."
http://www.tvguide.com/Dancing-Stars/Maks-Stands-Unfair-1004162.aspx
marigold:
:lol: Woz now you know discussing viewer votes is a no no :knuckles:
Woz apologizes for calling Dancing “a lie” and “fake”
Steve Wozniak has apologized to the producers of Dancing with the Stars after calling the show “fake,” and “a lie,” and says that the show’s executive producer told Woz that Woz’s comments “injured the show and” the producer.
Tuesday night, just before the live results show, a message from Woz was posted his Facebook group (by Real World Miami star Joe Patane, who has worked with Woz), in which Woz said, “I wrote that the producers were liars, simply because I truly believed in that possibility, not because I had a shred of evidence. I hurt a lot of honest people.”
Woz wrote that those “responsible for counting audience votes and keeping them honest told me all the specific details of where their numbers came from. More than that, they explained how they can catch onto various forms of manipulation of the system by exactly the methods I had thought out in my head that would work. I was offered an opportunity to see the equipment they use also. You can tell when things are extremely on the level. You can also see why the exact totals cannot be released. That would make it harder to detect fraud.”
Woz added that executive producer Conrad Green “told me how horribly what I had said injured the show and himself. You can tell when someone is speaking in a way that they can’t possibly be a liar or trying to deceive you the least bit. Conrad and the other producers are not liars. They are extremely honest people in my mind.”
So what did Woz write before apologizing for writing it? The post has been deleted from Facebook, but CNET quotes the message in a story. Woz wrote that he was “challenging the truthfulness of reporting of our dance team positions. But I am who I am, and I speak my mind and hate these unethical twists. I’m not after any Hollywood existence.”
“I’m sure they want me in this dance-off to get higher Tuesday ratings, and they have preplanned it so that I win. If my leg acts up tomorrow, they will either have to announce another pair as being the lowest or send me home, and I don’t think they will give me up,” he wrote. “If [producers] disclosed the numbers, it would be less of a game, but still suspect. If tomorrow, they claim I’m in the bottom 2 dance teams, including viewer votes, I believe that it’s an outright lie.”
Woz also said that he was basically harassing producers with on-camera comments. “I called it fake about 20 times today on camera. Each time in the same sentence as whatever comment they wanted about doing a dance-off tomorrow. That way, they couldn’t edit it easily to say what they wanted. They kept trying to get me to say what I’d do if I was in the dance-off without using the word fake,” he wrote. “They will have some small video tomorrow of me saying things that I strongly told them I don’t believe. They will also shoot me in a one-hour rehearsal tomorrow with my partner, but I’ll keep calling the idea of my being in the bottom 2, after audience participation, a lie.”
http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/dancing_with_the_stars_8/2009_Mar_18_woz_apologizes_accusations
marigold:
Steve-O is good to go :yess: :lol:
Steve-O Talks ‘Dancing’ Injury: ‘I Have A Hematoma’
Despite falling on his microphone pack during Monday’s dress rehearsal for “Dancing With the Stars,” Steve-O is gearing up to hit the ballroom again next week.
“I’m gonna be fine,” he told Access Hollywood on Tuesday night when he was saved from elimination alongside professional partner Lacey Schwimmer. GoGo’s singer Belinda Carlisle was sent home.
The “Jackass” star was unable to put in a final performance on Monday after he was taken to the hospital following his fall and was judged on his dress rehearsal. And he explained to Access what is wrong with his back.
“I have a hematoma,” he said. “In laymen’s terms it means I grew a third butt cheek… A sprained vessel… I have a pinched nerve and my back is [sprained].”
http://www.accesshollywood.com/steve-o-talks-dancing-injury-i-have-a-hematoma_article_15742
marigold:
Ty Murray's Blog:
March 19, 2009
Today was a long and frustrating day for Chelsie and me both. I think we're tired from not getting enough rest the past couple of days. We filmed the show the Monday and Tuesday, and there's a huge commitment when it comes to all the rehearsal time, camera blocking, press interviews and photo shoots that go along with being on a hit television show.
The foxtrot is a new dance for us and the first day is always tough because, again, I have no idea what to expect--no clue, none whatsoever.
I've run into this before with teaching: when you take someone this far out of their element it's hard just teaching them the most basic fundamentals because it's almost like teaching someone how to breathe. You don't really know how you do it you just do it because that's what you've been doing your whole life.
I think that's how a lot of this is for Chelsie. The simplest, most basic stuff can get really hard because there's a certain way you have to do it and then, as a teacher, you're trying to break it down for the student, but it's such a basic thing for you that it's hard to teach because it's something you never really had to think it about.
From my experience, its part of the learning process and it's been that way each time I've had to learn a new dance. You always seem to go way backwards before you start gaining momentum going forward.
I've been through this process as a student and as a teacher so I know that after I get a good night sleep I'll go in tomorrow rested, fresh, my head will be clear and a lot of the stuff Chelsie was teaching me today will have had a chance to kind of sink in overnight.
This is all just part of it.
The main thing I need to do right now is to make sure I get that good night's rest so that I can wake up fresh and get back at it tomorrow.
It's already crunch time and that kind of makes it feel all the more frustrating. Wednesday's gone and once the weekend gets here it gets even tougher because you start doing all the camera blocking. At that point, it's not like you're free to spend all day in the studio.
Chelsie sent me a text when I got home that said, "You're a lot further along than you think so don't get frustrated."
Well, that's what I know for tonight.
http://www.pbrnow.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/3/19/The-first-day-is-always-tough#more
RealityFreakWill:
Melissa & Tony's new promo pic to replace Nancy/Tony
Will post Holly/Dmitry's pic as soon I find it
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