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RealityFreakWill:
WEEK 3 DANCING SCOREBOARD:

Evan/Anna
Quickstep          9     8     9     26

Buzz/Ashly
Waltz                5     4     4    13   

Jake/Chelsie
Quickstep          7     7     7     21

Neicy/Louis
Waltz                7     7     7     21

Chad/Cheryl
Paso Doble         7     6     7     20

Pamela/Damian
Paso Doble         7     7     7     21

Aiden/Edyta
Quickstep           7     6     7     21       

Erin/Maksim
Waltz                 8     7     8     23

Kate/Tony
Paso Doble          5     5     5     15 

Nicole/Derek
Quickstep           8     6     9     23   

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

LOVE STORY: Niecy Nash and her pro partner Louis Van Amstel gave an emotional performance in the ballroom Monday night, telling the tale of a couple in the ’60s whose love isn’t accepted. “The story was about how far we’ve come as interracial couples, because that’s what we are. But the underlying message was, yes we’ve come that far, but we’re not there yet because same sex marriage isn’t possible,” Van Amstel said. “She can get married, but I can’t yet.” Although their waltz wasn’t perfect, Nash said the couple achieved the night’s goal. “It was so full of emotion that it allowed me to forget some of my steps,” she said. “But we definitely told our story.” And Van Amstel revealed his own, saying, “I am in the beginning of something very special, and it’s the first person I would ever consider wanting to get married.”

KATE’S FAN CLUB: Kate Gosselin and Tony Dovolani may have only scored 15 points out of 30 for their paso doble, but they’re counting it as a win. “This was the best [performance] yet,” Gosselin said. “The judges have their comments, but I’m out there to prove this to myself.” And, according to Dovolani, she did. “I’m so proud of her,” he said. “As long as we feel like we conquer something, that’s a win to me.” As far as getting votes is concerned, Gosselin can count on at least eight little ones. “They’re really proud of me, they vote like crazy,” she says of her kids. “I talked to them a half hour before the show, and my Mady said, ‘What are you doing calling me a half hour before Dancing with the Stars?’ She’s like a little mother.”

CHERYL’S NEW BLING: After dancing the paso doble in a performance about a matador trying to seduce a reluctant woman, Cheryl Burke and her partner Chad Ochocinco talked about her new sparkler. “The ring is from Chad, it’s bright and has lots of diamonds,” she said. “He presented it to me on one knee!” But sometimes a ring is just a ring. “The reason is a thank-you and an appreciation for what I put her through,” Ochocinco said. “She’s helping me in this wonderful journey. That’s what you do when you spend so much time with someone. I feel like we’re a couple, even though we’re not.” Still, a guy can hope! “Never say never,” Burke said of a potential romance. “Right now it’s business, but it could be pleasure.”

LEADERS OF THE PACK: Evan Lysacek and partner Anna Trebunskaya took the top score Monday night — despite a case of the jitters over his broken toes. “I feel it a little bit. I was nervous,” he said of taking to the floor with an injury. “I don’t want to let Anna down. We’ve been working hard.” Actually, the Olympian seemed more concerned with his hair than his feet. “Feel my hair. It’s so gross and [crusty from hairspray],” he said. “Do you even think shampoo is going to penetrate this? It felt like the hairstylist was literally gluing my hair.”

THE BACHELOR and THE DRILL SERGEANT: Jake Pavelka and Chelsie Hightower said they were happy with their quickstep but have high hopes for the coming weeks. “I feel like we’ll have that breakthrough dance,” he said. “I feel it coming! She’s driving it out of me.” The pair, who had a fight during rehearsals, said it was tough to revisit it before they took the floor. “To watch yourself have that frustration and live that right before you dance, it takes a toll on you,” Hightower said. But, according to Pavelka, it’s not personal. “If she wasn’t that way, almost like a drill sergeant,” he says, “it would scare me.”

http://tvwatch.people.com/2010/04/06/mondays-dancing-what-you-didnt-see-39/

RealityFreakWill:
WEEK 4 DANCING SCOREBOARD

DOUBLE SCORE SHOWDOWN

Two sets of scores

T for Technique

P for Performance

Erin/Maksim             T      6     6     6     18
Tango                    P      7     7     7     21=39

Evan/Anna              T      9     8     9     26
Tango                    P       9     8    9     26=52

Neicy/Louis             T       6     6     6     18
Rumba                    P       6     6     6     18=36

Aiden/Edyta             T      5     5     5     15
Rumba                    P       6     6     6     18=33

Nicole/Derek            T       9     8     8     25
Rumba                    P       8     8     9     25=50

Jake/Chelsie            T       6     7     6     19
Tango                    P       7     6     6      19=38

Kate/Tony              T        4     5     5     14 
Tango                    P        6     6     6     18=32

Chad/Cheryl            T        7     6     8     21
Rumba                    P        8     7     8     23=44

Pamela/Damian         T        7     8     8     23
Rumba                     P        8     7     9     24=47

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

TEAM KATE: She had the night’s lowest score, but Kate Gosselin couldn’t keep from smiling backstage after Monday’s show. Minutes before she performed, the mom of eight, who’s in the throes of a custody battle with her ex, heard the crowd cheer, “Go Kate! Hang in there!” The support, she tells PEOPLE, is “amazing. I felt love from everyone in that room. There was love and concern and care and, and that’s why I dance — for my kids and the fans.” Kate knows she’s not the best dancer on the show, but she’s determined to keep going. “I know that people naysay. I know that they are setting me up to fail, I know the stuff that’s out there, but I’m not going to quit,” she says. “I’m going to strive to do better. I have to walk away from every experience in my life knowing that I did my best and gave it my all, and this is no different.” Hearing that declaration was music to Tony Dovolani’s ears. “I am so proud of her,” he said. “She’s so strong and I didn’t want her to have one weak moment this week. She can’t go in a corner and cry. She needs to get out there and say, ‘No!’ And that’s what she did.”

KEEPING IT FRESH: Monday night’s “dances of love” theme had a few couples popping more than their fair share of breath mints. But Nicole Scherzinger joked that partner Derek Hough’s “breath is kicking like Bruce Lee!” The two, who are constantly joking around backstage, laughed at the line, which Scherzinger confesses, “I heard in a movie.” The truth is the couple’s breath “is always fresh,” Hough insists.

DOUBLE TROUBLE? Did Monday night’s ‘double scoring showdown’ delight the contestants or discourage them? The opinions were mixed: “It brought attention to detail,” Hough said. “As we saw, they were truly hard on us tonight in general, but I think it was good and it grounded everybody.” Cheryl Burke also liked the new scoring method. “In the studio we always work on technique and we always work on performance,” she said, “so it’s nice to see them separated.” Maksim Chmerkovskiy, however, was not a fan. “It was a double opportunity to score somebody wrong,” Chermovskiy says, noting that some of the judges’ comments did not reflect the scores they gave the contestants. “A lot of couples were confused.”

SLIP ‘N’ SLIDE: Jake Pavelka almost fell during his tango with Chelsie Hightower when the heel of his shoe slid on the hardwood floor, causing The Bachelor star to lose his footing. “[In rehearsals] Chelsie said maybe I should put something on my heel to keep it from slipping, but I thought it would be fine,” Pavelka says. “That’s going to cost us some votes.” And Pavelka, who was in the bottom two last week, may not have any to spare. “You’re never safe. You always have to vote,” he says. “My brothers didn’t even vote for me last week because they thought I’d be okay.”

DARK HORSE: Now four weeks into the competition, Pamela Anderson is emerging as a contestant to watch. Her sultry rumba had tongues wagging Monday and her partner bragging. “She was all butterflies backstage,” Damian Whitewood says. To calm her nerves, “we just focused on our connection. This week was good because we worked a lot harder on the technique and the timing, so she was more confident with the ground work … The last run-through we did before we go on, she nailed it. There was no question."

http://tvwatch.people.com/2010/04/13/mondays-dancing-what-you-didnt-see-40/

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

AWAY FROM HOME: After an emotional goodbye to soap star Aiden Turner on Tuesday’s show, Kate Gosselin and partner Tony Dovolani told PEOPLE they have found more than their tango to bond over: It’s difficult for both to be away from their kids. Dovolani says that traveling between L.A. and Pennsylvania, where Gosselin lives and rehearses, has meant that he only sees his daughter Luana, 4, and twins Adrian and Ariana, 2, for a couple of hours a week. “It’s not easy,” says the dancer, whose wife Lina stays at home in Connecticut. “I can talk to my daughter on the phone … I don’t quite understand all the conversations we have, but as long as she hears my voice, she’s knows I’m there.” The silver lining: parents who sympathize may be key to their success. “I think it’s moms and women,” Gosselin says of their supporters. “The fan base is [ages] 2 to 102. I imagine it’s people who believe in me more than I believe in myself. And the people who think Tony is good looking and love his abs!”

AFTERPARTY: Following Monday’s performance show, some of the cast headed to L.A. music venue The Mint, where they saw Mark Ballas (who was voted off in the second week of the season) perform in concert. “We’ve known each other since we were kids,” says Cheryl Burke, who went without partner Chad Ochocinco. “It’s nice to support his other passion. He’s so talented. He plays his guitar, he sings — he’s got that John Mayer feeling.” But he doesn’t necessarily need support from costarts, which included Derek Hough and Nicole Scherzinger. “There were tons of girls in the front row,” Burke says. “It was so cute.”

PERFORMANCE ANXIETY: While Jake Pavelka loves having fiancée Vienna Girardi in the audience cheering him on every week — “It’s so nice to feel her support,” he says — not every contestant wants their significant other in the audience. Scherzinger, whose boyfriend is Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton, says she’s perfectly happy with him tuning in via satellite. “I hope he gets to come back,” she says. “But honestly, it makes you a little bit more nervous when your loved ones are in the audience!”

OLD STOMPING GROUND: Season 6 contestant Marissa Jaret Winokur returned to the Dancing set Tuesday to catch up — and show off her svelte new figure. The actress, who in January said she would not return has host to Oxygen’s Dance Your Ass Off in part because of producers’ complaints about her appearance, tells PEOPLE she’s dropped 30 lbs. In November, Winokur went to the Fitness Ridge to kick-start her weight loss and she says she has 15 lbs. to lose before she hits her target weight. In the meantime, she’s working on developing a new show. Her dream? “A reality show that is something for moms,” she says. “I love being a mom. It’s all I want to talk about!”

DIRTY LAUNDRY: With plans to head to the East Coast to continue his Stars on Ice tour after Tuesday’s elimination, Evan Lysacek says he’s in a packing predicament. “I haven’t done laundry for two weeks,” he confessed. “I haven’t even had time to unpack my suitcase and repack.” Anna Trebunskaya offered her partner a creative solution: “You’re going to have to leave it for Erin [Andrews],” she quipped. He liked the idea: “Maybe she’ll do my laundry for me,” he said. Don’t count on it!

http://tvwatch.people.com/2010/04/14/tuesdays-dancing-what-you-didnt-see-32/#more-26950

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