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Dancing With The Stars Season 8
marigold:
An interesting article:
Why DWTS Has Become ‘Limping with the Stars’?
Before season 8 of Dancing with the Stars kicked off three weeks ago, contestants Jewel and Nancy O’Dell dropped out due to leg injuries. Since then, Steve-O tweaked his back, Steve Wozniak fractured his foot, Gilles Marini has tendonitis in his shoulder and Holly Madison suffered pain in her side. And those are only the ones that have been reported.
Why so many injuries this season compared to previous ones?
“Everyone seems to be competing more aggressively this year, and I think that’s why were having all these injuries,” says DWTS judge Carrie Ann Inaba.
And while injuries in professional ballroom dancing are “virtually unknown,” says Peter Pover, president of USA Dance Inc., the national governing body for ballroom dancing. But he also notes that celebrity dancers are training in extreme conditions in a short time and for many, this is their first time doing anything like this.
“It shouldn’t surprise Steve Wozniak that he hurts himself trying to do some of the things he’s doing,” he says about the computer whiz, who wears a temporary cast when he’s not whirling across the dancefloor. “He must be in terrific pain.”
As for Wozniak, he says he didn’t realize how serious his injury was until his partner Karina Smirnoff saw his ankle and suggested they go see a doctor.
“For a couple of weeks, everything hurt. So you don’t notice one hurt being different from the other,” Wozniak says. “They all go away, right? Well, one of them didn’t go away.”
Each week, it seems another person is going to get something checked out by a doctor. Broadway performer and funnyman David Alan Grier has avoided injury (so far) the old-fashioned way.
“I try to warm up. I take a hot bath every morning and just stretch, stretch,” he says.
Pover, who has watched the show since it started eight seasons ago, says the level of difficulty continues to rise. “I think anybody who goes into this gets a surprise when they find out what’s expected of them,” he says.
Two-time Dancing champ Cheryl Burke agrees. “People who have never danced before don’t realize dancing is a sport,” says Burke. People are dancing four to six hours a day…Even if you’re in the best shape possible, with dancing you’ve never worked out these parts of your body.”
http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/03/30/why-dwts-has-become-limping-with-the-stars/
RealityFreakWill:
Someone posted this on myspace...
Melissa hanging out with her parents in L.A.
original source: www.infdaily.com
marigold:
An interview with Gilles:
FRENCH ASTAIRE TOTAL 'DANCING' PACKAGE
Q: Most fans think you're a trained dancer judging from your performance.
A: Let me just say my partner [Cheryl Burke] is a magician. I was absolutely horrible when I first started out. I looked like a robot. [Burke] said I was very good looking, but that was it.
She put me through so many hard workouts.
Q: No way! You've had prior experience.
A: The truth is the only experience I had is when I was 18 years old, I went to some clubs in France. I thought I could move around a little, but nothing like what people are seeing on TV.
I'm hoping the American audience sees me and realizes that anyone can do it if they work hard at it.
Q: You look like you're on a collision course with Melissa Rycroft [from "The Bachelor"] for the championship. Can you take her out?
A: I love the compliments but she's very, very good. She didn't hide the fact she had ballet experience and most people don't know how hard it is to become a cheerleader for a professional team. It's like boot camp. It's a gruesome task. She's an unbelievable dancer.
I also think Shawn [Johnson] is out of this world.
Q: Last season, Warren Sapp told us it was absolute chaos backstage during the show.
A: Some people get very stressed out before they go out and dance, and you can see it when they perform. The professionals are loose and they try and calm their partners down. I just focus on what [Burke] and I worked on during the week -- I listen to her like a soldier, as I did back when I was in Army training.
Q: Does your wife, Carole, ever get jealous of Cheryl?
A: Never. I'm very lucky to have a wife that's so supportive and understanding. She loves the fact I'm getting so much attention. She can see how the exposure will help my career.
She's very funny about it, too. She'll wait in line with fans to take a picture with me. Even after the nude scene in 'Sex & the City,' where she could've been jealous, she wasn't. [Laughs] She was like, 'You look good.' "
Q:Are you sick of the whole full monty thing?
A: It would be unfair for me to say that because that part made a lot of things happen for me. It has opened a lot of doors. Of course, now I want the world to know there's so much more of who I am.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03302009/tv/french_astaire_162064.htm
RealityFreakWill:
Cheryl Burke Makes Fitness Fashionable
Two-time "Dancing with the Stars" champion Cheryl Burke is trying her hand at making fitness clothing fabulous.
Cheryl teamed up with Fit Couture to start her signature line of workout wear. The line --called Cheryl Burke by Fit Couture -- will feature nine pieces of clothing available in four different colors.
"Comfort is so important to me when I am active," says the "DWTS" performer. "I like to wear pieces that move with my body and are flattering to my body type. I've always wanted to start my own clothing line and I've been a fan of Fit Couture's items for a while now so when they approached me about doing a line with them it just made sense."
http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/03/72295/index.html
marigold:
An update from Woz:
I'm in my trailer. I had an orchestra rehearsal at 11:35 but it's running late.
Julie went over to visit Karina in her trailer and Karina was having makeup problems. Sometimes there are advantages to being a geek who never got into things like how you look in public and fashion and all that makeup stuff.
I just got notified by Lisl, one of the staff here, that my orchestra rehearsal got pushed to the end so I have time for this post. Lisl is the first DWTS staff person I met other than the producers who invited me to be on the show, and Karina and the film crew who first met me in Orlando. We came back to L.A. to tape some title shots for opening scenes and the first person to greet me was Lisl. Her name is unusual enough to remember and she's tall and blond and has the biggest nicest smile here. I'm so thankful that she is one of the ones assigned to take care of me here.
It's a big day. I'm looking at it as an adventure to experience. Whatever the outcome, I will do my best. I will be having a great time even though I'm not a smiling character in this Argentine Tango.
I can say that if you enjoy what I do the most about dancing, you will really have a great time watching the Lindy Hop dances tonight. I can't watch them and keep still in my seat. And there are some great ones, worthy of Olympic medals for gymnastics!
Oh, on the mirror in front of me, in my seat in the trailer, someone wrote, in brown lipstick, "I (heart) u Woz!" It could be from any of the staff here. Security is VERY tight and very good here now. I'm going to borrow another color of lipstick and scrawl under the writing "Thanks, Bruno" so that whoever did it will get a laugh.
The more laughs and smiles we create in this life, the better. That's my motto.
Until my next chance to inform you,
Woz
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