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Dancing with the Stars

Louie Vito ‘Bummed’ to Be Off Dancing with the Stars
November 2, 2009
I’m not going to lie, I felt like I just lost a huge snowboard contest on Tuesday night. I knew I wouldn’t be the happiest person when we got kicked off the show, but I didn’t realize I would be THAT bummed.

There are a few reasons why I think I took the result show so hard. The first is, I HATE losing. Yes, I had a lot of fun during the course of the show, but regardless of that, I still hate losing … no matter what it is. Also, the fact that it was a head-to-head dance-off made it worse. I nailed that dance at the practice we had in the morning and I ran it solo back stage at least 15 times. I always consider myself a contest person and do well under pressure. In this instance, I didn’t come through and I took that pretty hard.

It was weird to wake up Wednesday morning and NOT go to dance practice. I was so used to waking up, eating and then spending the rest of the day rehearsing. Now, I have a lot more time on my hands in between meetings while I’m in LA. The first chance I got, I started skateboarding again, since I pretty much stopped while on the show. I had to be careful not to roll a ankle while I was dancing, but now I can skate without worrying about that.

Chelsie and I also got the opportunity to go to Knott’s Scary Farm which was fun, as well as hit the movies. Then I got to turn the tables and take Chelsie to Mt. High for some snowboarding. It’s pretty crazy to think about snowboarding before Halloween, especially in Southern California, but we did get a couple of days in. It was super fun and the run they had open was actually pretty good snow, good coverage, with boxes and rails everywhere. Chelsie started off being better than I expected right from the get-go. We rode all day on Friday and then decided we were going to come back on Saturday to step it up a notch. Saturday was a whole new day. Chelsie was killing it from the beginning and by the time we left, she was able to make turns all the way down the mountain with no problem. It was cool to take her out and show her what I do everyday. Even though it’s early, early season, she got the idea.

Now all that is left is for me to learn a dance for the finale, and then get back on a schedule and stay healthy and strong for the winter. I am going to Colorado with the U.S. Team the day after Thanksgiving to get ready for the first Olympic Trial and I want to be in perfect shape and health and ready to go.

Thanks to EVERYONE who gave me votes every week, and thanks to everyone who even watched me and cheered me on! This experience is something I will never forget and I have learned a lot, not only about dancing, but about myself as well. I think it has made me grow mentally stronger and I can take a lot from experience and believe it will help me down the road in my life. THANKS AGAIN TO EVERYONE, ESPECIALLY CHELSIE! It’s been a great experience! –Louie Vito

http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/11/02/louie-vito-bummed-to-be-off-dancing-with-the-stars/

msbuni:
Dancing with the Stars

Kelly Osbourne Bounces Back From ‘Beige’
November 3, 2009
Kelly Osbourne was back to her colorful self Monday night on Dancing with the Stars. Last week, judge Bruno Tonioli called her performance “beige.” This week, with her partner Louis Van Amstel pushing her to the limit, she worked through the tears to nail a spicy salsa. “That was brilliant,” Carrie Ann Inaba told her. “You were unafraid of the dance.”

Aaron Carter and his pro partner Karina Smirnoff were another highlight with a high-energy jive that earned them 29 points, including a 10 from sometimes stingy judge Len Goodman. Bruno loved their “unstoppable momentum” and said it was Carter’s “best performance.”

Playboy’s December covergirl Joanna Krupa and her partner Derek Hough also seemed unstoppable after they performed a romantic rumba that had Bruno calling her a “love goddess.” “You dance at your edge,” Carrie Ann told her. “I love watching you.” They earned 27 points.

Donny Osmond and Kym Johnson’s quickstep was full of errors but “when you go for it,” Len told him, “there will be mistakes.” Bruno agreed: “Nobody could cover up all the mistakes as well as you did,” he said.

Sadly, the same could not be said for Iron Chef America’s Mark Dacascos, whose partner Lacey Schwimmer is the latest pro to get hit by the flu. Replacing her at the last minute was Anna Trebunskaya who was eliminated earlier this season with Chuck Liddell. While the judges had compassion for their unlucky situation, they only awarded the pair 19 points. “That was a mess,” Carrie Ann said. “It was completely … disjointed.” Bruno said their samba looked like “Kung Fu Panda doing the samba on the Planet of the Apes.” Ouch!

The night ended with a team dance-off. Team Tango (Joanna and Derek, Kelly and Louis, Donny and Kym) bested Team Paso (Mark and Anna, Aaron and Karina, Mya and Dmitry, Michael and Anna) by earning an additional 28 points each compared to just 24 for the paso performers.

http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/11/03/kelly-osbourne-bounces-back-from-beige/

RealityFreakWill:
Monday’s Dancing: What You Didn’t See

The Flu Season: Two weeks after the flu bug first hit the ballroom, Lacey Schwimmer and Donny Osmond fell ill. Anna Trebunskaya filled in for Schwimmer, dancing the fox trot with Mark Dacascos on Monday night. But Osmond tells PEOPLE that for him, the show had to go on. “I just can’t let Kym [Johnson] down,” he said. Clutching a wad of tissue, Osmond stayed an arm’s length away during his post-show interviews. Given the long hours, the strenuous routines and the close proximity in which the stars and pros work, staying healthy is a challenge for everyone. Vitamin C, Emergen-C, and every kind of cold remedy out there is stocked at the craft services table. “If it’s legal, I’m taking it,” Osmond says. “The room was literally spinning tonight when we did the quickstep. I thought I was dancing on the ceiling for a bit.”

Who Wears the Pants: For Monday night’s show the celebrities — instead of the pros — took their ideas to the DWTS wardrobe department. Mya chose a long gown for herself and an ivory suit with a magenta shirt and tie for her partner, Dmitri Chaplin. “Dmitri was very insecure about the idea of me designing the costumes this week,” Mya says. “I’ve been wearing a lot of short stuff, so tonight I wore a gown and I picked out a magenta shirt for him and I was tired of the black and white suits so I put him in a cream suit tonight.” What did Chaplin think? “It was incredible. I thought it looked amazing,” he said. Kelly Osbourne revealed why she cooked up a pair of turquoise fringe pants for her partner, Louis Van Amstel: “Every week I’ll say, ‘I want a black dress,’ and then I’ll come in and it will be gray,’” Osbourne says. “I have ended up loving all of my dresses, really, but this week he called them up and said to add tassels to my dress … So I called them up and I said, ‘Add tassel pants for Louis.’”

Pressure Cooker: Feeling the pressure as the season hits its home stretch, Osbourne says she’s been having a hard time keeping her cool. “It’s unbelievable now and it’s more intense than you will ever imagine,” she says. “I care so much about this that I’m at home crying or I’m practicing my arm moves while I’m doing dishes or brushing my teeth.” Van Amstel says he can tell that Osbourne’s commitment level has risen week by week. “I feel the pressure is actually off because we’ve been fighting since week three to get her to burst that bubble and find her mojo,” he says. “So now I feel if we stay [in the competition] from now on, it will be fun because we’re pushing together. We have nothing to lose. If we go home tomorrow, we’ve already won.”

Facing Tough Critics: She’s one of the season’s most consistent and best performers. So why is it every week judge Len Goodman gives Mya and Chaplin their lowest score? “I don’t think he has anything against us,” Mya says. “He wants us to keep pushing to the next level so that we can reach three tens. We’re not achieving some factor in our dance. Either it’s too technical and Bruno [Tonioli] and Carrie Ann [Inaba] won’t like it, or it’s too performance-based or gimmicky. So we have to find a happy medium to please the audience, the three judges and ourselves and be true to the dance.”

Hough Love: Derek Hough and Joanna Krupa had some fun with their video package on Monday night, concocting an over-the-top fantasy sequence complete with slow-motion beach running and a kiss. After their rumba Monday night, which also had equal parts drama and passion, Hough ran over to give an “all in good fun” handshake to Krupa’s fiancé, Miami nightclub owner Romain Zago. “We were laughing at ourselves all week and having a good time, having fun with it,” says Hough, who will perform on Tuesday night’s results show with Mark Ballas and the Ballas Hough Band. “It’s exciting for me to hear him perform,” Krupa says.

http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/11/03/mondays-dancing-what-you-didnt-see-33/

msbuni:
Dancing with the Stars

Dancing’s Double Elimination
November 4, 2009
It was the second double-elimination in a row as former NFL star Michael Irvin and Iron Chef America host Mark Dacascos were eliminated Tuesday night on Dancing with the Stars.

Irvin, who improved his dance scores each week, says the voters kept him and his partner Anna Demidova in the game for seven weeks.

“We have great love out here,” Irvin told PEOPLE after the show. “The voters kept us in. We were scoring 13s and 14s. That makes you feel great!”

Unfortunately, he scored the lowest among the seven couples Monday night and didn’t have a chance to compete in the dance-off, which featured Dacascos and pop star Aaron Carter. The judges raved about both performances, but in the end, the judges preferred Carter’s jive to Dacascos’s cha cha.

“Would I trade the experience? Heck, no!” says Dacascos. “It was one of the best professional experiences I’ve had in my life!”

It was a tough week for the TV host. His partner Lacey Schwimmer caught the flu last week and was unable to perform Monday night. Instead, he rehearsed once with Tony Dovolani and then performed with Anna Trebunskaya. Still feeling sick, Schwimmer said she couldn’t stay away for elimination night.

“I probably shouldn’t have come here today and danced but I begged to be here,” Schwimmer said. “There was no way I was going to let him leave on a sour note. We danced one last time.”

With only five couples left competing for the mirror ball trophy, the celebs and dancers say they have formed a bond that makes it hard to say goodbye.

“I’m happy I met her,” Irvin says about his partner Demidova. “I’ll miss her more than anything.” –Elaine Aradillas

http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/11/04/dancings-double-elimination-2/#more-19598

msbuni:
  :'(  :'(  :'( :'(  Not Mark!!!!  I have no body to vote for anymore..... It's hard to say that if Lacy would have been well - would they have not made it into the bottom 3? 

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