Other Great Reality Shows > Other Reality TV Shows & News
Dancing With The Stars Season 8
RealityFreakWill:
Tuesday’s Dancing: What You Didn’t See
Steve-O’s Got Fans, Yo: The charming and sometimes bashful Steve-O knows his fans are saving him from elimination. Before the results show kicked off, he walked out to greet his guest and former Jackass co-star Johnny Knoxville. The minute he appeared from behind the curtain, a swell of applause and cheers for Steve-O took over the room. Surprised, he waved to fans and ran backstage.
Thank-You Note: Disney cutie Demi Lovato, who tweeted about her performance leading up to the show, sang her hit “La La Land,” who received a standing ovation. During a break, she grabbed the mic and told the audience: “Thank you so much for having me. I just wanted to say thank you.”
Musical Stairs: At the end of the show, it’s customary for the dancers and their partners to line up along the staircase while the elimination is announced. But the dancers and their partners did a sudden switcheroo. Melissa Rycroft stood next to Chuck Wicks, Derek Hough was by Shawn Johnson’s side, Mark Ballas and Lil’ Kim paired up, and Tony Dovolani and Julianne Hough stood side-by-side. “It was Derek’s idea,” Mark Ballas revealed. “All Derek’s idea and Tony’s.” Shawn, dressed in her sweet white ball gown, added innocently, “Not us. We’re angels.”
Ballroom Buss Stop: Everyone was sad to see David Alan Grier eliminated from the competition. The dancers took turns wishing him luck and telling him he did a good job. Grier’s fellow competitor and dance-off contestant Lawrence Taylor managed to wade through the crowd and give him a big man hug and kiss on the cheek before leaving the show.
Now That’s a Performance: Etta James’s velvety voice and soulful rendition of her hit “At Last” stopped everyone, including the dancers, in their tracks. The pros, who normally mill about during the pre-taped performances, all looked for a monitor to watch the replay. Even the audience members quietly watched the performance again. That was after they gave her not one or two, but three standing ovations.
http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/04/08/tuesdays-dancing-what-you-didnt-see-18/
RealityFreakWill:
click on link below to view video
David Alan Grier: 'We Laughed, We Cried, We Tried Our Best'
ET was backstage Tuesday night as David Alan Grier and Kym Johnson were eliminated from "Dancing with the Stars." David admits that he worked hard and has no regrets, and the remaining couples weigh in on the high standards for this season of the competition.
"I had fun while I was here," David says. "It was frustrating, exciting it was everything. I didn't think it would be this intense across the board. It sounds corny but we laughed, we cried, we did our best. There's not one minute of the day that I wasn't trying to do my best."
"This is a very tough season the standards are very high," David's partner Kym Johnson tells ET. "I'm upset that we've gone because I feel we had so much more to give but when your number is up it's up."
Watch the video to hear the other contestants bid farewell to David and reveal what they will miss about having him on the show.
http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/04/72618/index.html
RealityFreakWill:
David Alan Grier Waltzes Off Dancing
Actor and comedian David Alan Grier won’t be singing for the judges or dancing for the fans anymore.
The audience gasped in shock when they learned Grier and his partner Kym Johnson were eliminated on Tuesday’s DWTS results show.
The pair landed in the bottom two against Super Bowl legend Lawrence Taylor and his partner Edyta Sliwinska. In the dance-off, Grier and Johnson managed to improve their score from Monday night by four points, earning them a 24 out of 30 for their Viennese waltz. Taylor and Sliwinska, on the other hand, did no better or worse than Monday, earning a 20 out of 30 for their paso doble. But in the end, the dance-off score made no difference in the final tally.
“I think the show is about much more than who dances the best or who dances better than someone else. It’s a reality show. It’s entertainment,” Grier told PEOPLE following his elimination. “It’s been fun. It’s been crazy. And I’ve lost a lot of weight.”
For weeks, Grier said he sweated off the weight inside the studio. The result: He’s lost more than 20 lbs. and says, “I’m in great shape now and I want to keep it up.”
Another thing the Broadway actor managed to keep up were the spirits of his fellow dancers, whom he kept laughing backstage during his time on the show.
Lil’ Kim said she wanted to cry when she heard Grier’s name announced. Her partner Derek Hough, who was seen giving Grier a heartfelt hug onstage as the show credits rolled, says performance night won’t be the same without Grier. “He brought a lot of joy and laughter backstage,” says Hough. “It’s going to be a lot quieter back there.”
But perhaps the one person who will miss him the most is his teacher and partner Kym Johnson. “I’m disappointed because I was already thinking of our next dance,” Johnson told PEOPLE. “I think David had so much more to give.”
While he gave it his all, Grier, it seems, never quite won over the judges. He says, “I just don’t think we ever got onboard with the judges.”
http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/04/08/spoiler-alert-find-out-who-was-voted-off-dancing/
marigold:
Ty Murray Blogs:
Everyone’s put a lot of effort into this’
Going into tonight Chelsie just told me to loosen up, but as it goes along and you're waiting to find out if you're in the bottom two or not you feel yourself tightening up again, especially when we were the last one's to be saved.
It's a challenge and everyone's put a lot of effort into this to rise up that challenge.
You hate to see anybody go. I really hated to see David Alan Grier go because I got to know him real well. We hit off and he's a real nice guy. I think he was enjoying the process and he was working hard at it. I thought he was getting better every week.
But the thing is when you sign up for this deal you know that every couple except one is going to experience that, so Chelsie and I are just going to keep working as hard as we can and try to enjoy the process for however long it may last.
We know that our fan support is coming in. I don't mean to sound like a broken record, but it makes it a lot easier when you're trying this hard for Chelsie and I know we have so many people behind us. We're vested in this and we're giving it everything we have.
Hopefully we'll have a better week. I certainly think we can.
It's just a matter of getting the work put in and, I think, the Jive is going to be another one of those real tiring dances. This week we have a song that Chelsie handpicked. It's a Travis Tritt song called "The Girl's Gone Wild."
You don't have a lot of time to clear songs and we don't find out until Sunday night which dance you'll get if you survive, so she went to work and got the song she wanted and she seems really excited about it.
The Jive is her specialty.
All I know about it is that it's a lot of steps and really fast paced. It's also a Latin dance along with the Lindy Hop, which I didn't know. Out of the 10 dances, 5 of them are called standard and 5 of them are Latin dances. We've had two standards, which were the Foxtrot and the quickstep, and this will be our fourth Latin dance.
I'm going to YouTube it so I can see it beforehand, but what it really comes down to is, me learning our routine from Chelsie. When you watch professionals do these dances it can be very misleading about what you're in for.
Now it's back to my main job and that's getting some rest so that I can be ready to do the work when we get to practice.
But the fan support is half the deal and it's just as important. It's just like in bull riding: you can make the best ride in the world, but if you don't have a great bull it doesn't matter.
I've made a few decent rides and I've made a few questionable rides, but, I think, I've had a good bull every time.
http://www.pbrnow.com/blog/index.cfm/ty-murray
RealityFreakWill:
click on link below to view video
HTV: Ballas Hough Band Groove at The Grove
HTV was with the boys of "Dancing with the Stars," Mark Ballas and Derek Hough, as they performed at an outdoor concert at Los Angeles' The Grove!
A pregnant Nicole Richie was all smiles as she chatted it up at a dinner party. Rapper Eve was also spotted at the party.
Samantha Ronson was seen driving out of the Chateau Marmont without Lindsay Lohan.
Lastly, former "Laguna Beach" reality star Kristen Cavallari thanked photographers as she got into her car.
http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/04/72627/
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version