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RealityFreakWill:
'Dancing''s Gilles Marini: 'I Have Two Left Feet'
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HTV caught "Dancing with the Stars" standout Gilles Marini out in Hollywood with his wife and daughter and he offers a surprising confession about his dancing!
When asked what moves he'll use to dazzle "Dancing" viewers this week, Gilles gave a tongue-in-cheek answer. "The truth is, I can't really move. I have two left feet and this will never change. The show makes you guys believe I can dance."
When pressed further, Gilles did reveal he's been practicing the pasa doble and promised that his freestyle routine on the show would be "to die for."
http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/05/74332/
RealityFreakWill:
Ty's latest blog:
‘It sure was fun to see everybody’
We're back in Los Angeles and today we did camera blocking and we got to see everyone because all 13 contestants are back this week.
Everyone is doing different portions from different dances and we'll be doing the Lindy Hop. The camera blocking went good and, like I said, it sure was fun to see everybody.
Jewel got back to L.A. earlier today so we'll have a nice relaxing evening tonight and then we'll go to watch the show tomorrow. It'll be kind of fun to watch it from the audience and see what it's like from there.
Tuesday night we're all on for the finale and I'll check back in with you guys later.
http://www.pbrnow.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/5/18/It-sure-was-fun-to-see-everybody#more
RealityFreakWill:
What Will It Take to Win Dancing with the Stars?
When viewers tune in Monday night to see the final season 8 performance show, they may find themselves in a quandary as to how to vote. That’s because the showdown between actor Gilles Marini, Olympic champ Shawn Johnson, and reality star Melissa Rycroft is the most evenly-matched in Dancing’s history.
“It’s the fans who are really going to decide,” says season 5 winner Helio Castroneves. The Brazilian race car driver, prepping for Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, tells PEOPLE what viewers have already witnessed: this year’s finalists “can all dance really well.”
On Monday’s one-hour live telecast (at 8 p.m. ET on ABC), the three celebrities and their professional dance partners will dance the paso doble to the same music, as well as perform their respective freestyle routines. Tuesday night all three couples return to the ballroom to perform their favorite dance of the season, which will be scored only by the judges. Then a new Dancing winner will be crowned on the season finale’s live results show.
PEOPLE asked three former winners what it will take for this year’s contestants to take home the coveted mirror-ball trophy. Here’s what they had to say.
Marini, paired with two-time Dancing champ Cheryl Burke, “has this great charm about him that is instantly appealing to the audience,” observes season 6 champ Kristi Yamaguchi. “Gilles’s biggest weakness is getting too excited while dancing and forgetting to pay attention to the technical details of the dances. In order for him to win, Gilles will have to pull out a crowd-pleasing freestyle with the WOW factor.”
Olympic speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno, who captured season 4’s trophy, says pal Johnson “has the technical side of the dances down. Now she’s got to really turn on her personality. She’s got to be animated and bubbly and showcase her goofy side this last week.” In her favor is partner Mark Ballas’s experience — he won in season 6 with Yamaguchi.
And then there’s Rycroft, Dancing’s surprise last-minute contestant. Filling in for injured Access Hollywood host Nancy O’Dell days before the season premiere, Rycroft and partner Tony Dovolani have consistently churned out great performances. But will her dancing background ultimately hurt her in the finals?
“She has habits, she was a ballerina for so long,” Castroneves observes. “She’s very graceful and we know she can dance. She already has the finesse, now she needs to perform to the audience even more.”
So who has the edge? “It could be anybody, really,” Ohno says. “People need to remember to vote for their favorite.”
http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/05/18/what-will-it-take-to-win-dancing-with-the-stars/
RealityFreakWill:
Dancing Score Results
PASO DOBLE
Shawn/Mark 9 9 10 28
Melissa/Tony 10 9 10 29
Gilles/Cheryl 10 10 10 30
FREESTYLE
Shawn/Mark 10 10 10 30
Melissa/Tony 9 9 9 27
Gilles/Cheryl 9 10 9 28
COMBINED SCORE
Shawn/Mark 58
Melissa/Tony 56
Gilles/Cheryl 58
RealityFreakWill:
Ty's blog:
‘It was a pretty good sign that I need to be getting out of California’
Hello troops,
The earthquake you might have heard about, the one that happened here in Los Angeles on Sunday, well, Jewel and I actual felt it. We were in our apartment and the whole place started shaking back and forth. That was the first earthquake that I've ever experienced and it was wild.
Jewel and I looked at each and at the exact same time we both said, "Earthquake!"
We were lying on the bed watching TV and started feeling the bed shaking back forth, but then you look around and the whole room is shaking back and forth. That was wild and, to me, it was a pretty good sign that I need to be getting out of California so we have one more dance and I'm outta here.
Jewel and I went to the show tonight and it was fun getting to sit in the audience and watch it as a spectator.
It's amazing how many people come back to watch the show. Emmitt Smith was there, Warren Sapp was there and bunch of other people who were on the show in the past were there tonight.
It was entertaining and it's funny that when you watch them dance back to back like that you really do get a chance to see who you think danced the best.
I thought they were all really close tonight, but I think Shawn Johnson is going to be tough to beat. They'll all be hard to beat, but Shawn brings a large fan base and I think she's doing an amazing job of executing pretty difficult routines.
At this point, they're all close enough that any one of the three could win it. I think they've all worked their butt off and I think they all did a great job and, again, it's going to come down to how America votes.
It'll be interesting to see how all that shakes out.
As for me, Chelsie and I get to do the Lindy Hop the whole way through one last time. And, like I said, it'll be fun to have everybody back for one last show and then there's going to be a big wrap party afterward.
Jewel's birthday is on May 23, but we're going to have an early celebration with some of our friends who live here in Los Angeles so as soon as the show's over we're going to go to dinner and then we'll go to the wrap party.
Well, that's all for tonight. I'll talk to you guys tomorrow and then Wednesday morning it's going to be color me back to Texas.
http://www.pbrnow.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/5/19/It-was-a-pretty-good-sign-that-I-need-to-be-getting-out-of-California#more
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