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Dancing with the Stars - 9
msbuni:
It all begins next week - thought we could use some updates!!
DWTS Blog: Ashley Hamilton Reminded of Military School
Hello my friends,
I hope you all had a great week … we are only days away from the premiere of the show. I am extremely excited and nervous.
For the last month, I’ve been getting up early every day and studying some of the greats like Fred Astaire, Michael Jackson, and Steve-O.
At first I thought, how hard can this be? Edyta drags me around, the judges vote, I make a joke about how tan my dad is … and then I go back and cry in my dressing room. I have realized it is much more than that. Dancing is an expression of life, and I am living it to the fullest through this experience. It is challenging on all three levels, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
The true challenge lies in how fast we have to learn how to dance. It takes humongous discipline to stay out of your head and in your dance shoes … remembering it is a process that is one step at a time. Sometimes Edyta reminds me of that school teacher or parent who would make you sit there for hours and finish your project even though you didn’t think it was possible.
I remember when I was a kid and I went away to military school in Lebanon, Tenn., because my best friend was going … even at a young age I enjoyed a good challenge. My friend had an easier time being accepted because he was a great athlete. And I was a 25-pound overweight boy named “Ashley” from the mean streets of Beverly Hills, who got his hand stuck in the vending machine the first week while trying to steal some cookies …
When I came home from military school for Christmas, I didn’t want to go back. I wanted to stay home. My dad said that quitting wasn’t an option. “Just look at this tan, kid.” He said that if you start something you have to finish it … and that I would thank him one day.
The day I got back to military school I broke out with the chicken pox and was quarantined. I was put in isolation and cursed my dad. People would sneak in to see me … I didn’t realize how many people cared about me and how many friends I had made in a short time. I finished that year on the honor roll and I even wanted to go back for another year.
Turns out my dad was right..
I am going to give DWTS 100 percent and do the best I can … and hopefully make some new friends along the way … like Chuck Liddell. He seems like a great guy, even though I was scared of him at first when he almost choked me out for accidentally taking his leg warmers.
I had the pleasure of running into Debi Mazar a few times. Debi’s adorable. She reminds me of all those smart, cute, funny women who are WAYYYY too stable to ever go out with me. I even got to hang with Mya. She goes by one name. I tried going by one name once but a dude simply known as Ashley doesn’t quite work!
This whole experience is amazing … I am even getting recognized more now than I never did. Until next week…
Much love,
Ashley H.
http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/09/16/dwts-blog-ashley-hamilton-reminded-of-military-school/#more-17069
msbuni:
'Dancing' Couple Still Friends After Split
Posted Thursday 17 September 07:36 AM By: PopEater Staff
Despite their split earlier this month, Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy are still on good terms. "It's kind of easy to stay friends," Smirnoff told PEOPLE.
"We were friends for 14 years, before anything else. It will always remain this way. It's not difficult. We both think the world of each other," she added.
The 'Dancing With The Stars' couple broke up after being engaged for about eight months.
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"There are a lot of events, and a lot of opportunities where you have to go solo," she says. "It's interesting because I know there are a lot of people in the room I want to meet and interact with."
As for Maks she adds: "Nothing has changed. Everything is great."
Smirnoff and Chmerkovskiy met on 'Dancing With the Stars' and started dating in October of last year. Then, just a few months later on New Year Eve, he popped the question. They planned on getting married in June 2010.
http://www.popeater.com/2009/09/17/dancing-couple-karina-makism-still-friends-after-split/
msbuni:
Some hints on the new format!! It's going to be quite a night of TV!!
Dancing with the Stars to ‘Mix Things Up’
September 21, 2009
As contestants are lacing up their dancing shoes for tonight’s season 9 premiere of Dancing with the Stars, they may already be feeling the pressure of a new scoring and elimination process.
“We like to mix things up every now and again to keep the audience on their toes,” Dancing’s executive producer Conrad Green says.
Derek Hough told PEOPLE Friday night at Family Guy’s pre-Emmy party by Night Vision that his partner, model Joanna Krupa, is “getting nervous and psyching herself out.” He’s trying to calm her nerves by “making her laugh” and reminding her that “it’s all mental at this point.”
Premiere week will feature three consecutive nights of Dancing with all 16 couples dancing two routines each. Monday the male celebrities will perform, while Tuesday’s show features only the women. On Wednesday night, the season’s first live results show, two contestants will go home.
There will be a little math involved during the first week, so viewers keeping scores may want to have a pen and paper handy. Each celebrity’s first dance of the night will be scored as usual by the judges, who will hold up their paddles to indicate one to ten points from each for a maximum possible score of 30.
The second dance will be a relay in which each couple will dance for 30 seconds of a song. For example, four male contestants and their partners will perform the salsa on Monday, while the other four couples will dance the Viennese waltz. Judges will rank each 30-second leg of the relay. The pair that comes in first place gets 10 points; the second place pair get eight points; third is 6 points; fourth is 4 points. The maximum total score a contestant can receive on Monday or Tuesday night’s shows is 40 points. These combined scores, factored in with America’s vote, will determine which contestants — one male and one female — will be eliminated on Wednesday’s live results.
On Sept. 28, Dancing will resume its customary format of performance shows on Monday and live results shows on Tuesday. But the dreaded dance-off will return for weeks five, six and seven of the season. Two couples will be sent home in each of those weeks, reducing the cast from 11 to five couples in just three weeks.
“The way the double eliminations will work is the lowest scoring couple will [automatically] go. Then the next two lowest scoring couples will dance off,” Green explains. “We’ll have asked all of our couples to prepare a short dance, which we’ll call their secret dance, which is the dance they think is their best effort for staying in the competition. Every single couple at the top 11 will need to prepare this and have it ready to go at a moment’s notice. It will be really dramatic.” –Monica Rizzo with reporting by Reagan Alexander
http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/09/21/dancing-with-the-stars-to-mix-things-up/#more-17252
RealityFreakWill:
Men tonight, ladies tomorrow, two eliminations on Wed
Tonight's scoring results:
Aaron/Karina
Cha Cha Cha 7 8 7 22
Chuck/Anna
Foxtrot 6 5 5 16
Mark/Lacey
Cha Cha Cha 7 7 7 21
Ashley/Edyta
Foxtrot 5 6 4 15
Donny/Kym
Foxtrot 7 6 7 20
Louie/Chelsie
Foxtrot 6 7 6 19
Michael/Anna
Cha Cha Cha 5 4 4 13
Tom/Cheryl
Cha Cha Cha 6 5 5 16
RELAY DANCE (Judges jointly rank them 1st thru 4th and points are scored)
SALSA
Chuck/Anna 3rd 6
Ashley/Edyta 4th 4
Donny/Kym 1st 10
Louie/Chelsie 2nd 8
VIENNESE WALTZ
Aaron/Karina 1st 10
Mark/Lacey 2nd 8
Michael/Anna 3rd 6
Tom/Cheryl 4th 4
COMBINED SCORES
Aaron/Karina 32
Chuck/Anna 22
Mark/Lacey 29
Ashley/Edyta 19
Donny/Kym 30
Louie/Chelsie 27
Michael/Anna 19
Tom/Cheryl 20
apskip:
Thanks, Reality Freak Will. I know what it took to write the above recap and appreciate your efforts. I have a few comments on last night's DWTS9 performance round:
1. I was not surprised that performers Aaron and Donnie did well.
2. I was surprised and pleased that Mark did well.
3. I expected Tom to do better. He is in a bracket with Ashley and Michael. I expect that voters will want to keep Tom around longer, so it will be Ashley or Michael that bites the dust tomorrow night on the results show. Whichever one doesn't get eliminated tomorrow will be eliminated before the double elimination weeks.
4. I did not get much of a sense of the potential of Chuck or Louie.
So, let me be fearless and predict that Aaron, Donnie and Mark will still be standing after the 3 rounds of double eliminations week 6, 7 and 8. Michael/Ashley (whichever remains after tomorrow) will be eliminated sometime in weeks 2 through 4. I expect Tom to be eliminated along with Louie and Chuck in weeks 5, 6 and 7.
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