Dancing With The Stars
 

The new cast for DWTS announced.

* Mark Cuban - owner of the Dallas Mavericks

* Floyd Mayweather Jr. - Boxer

* Wayne Newton

* Melanie Brown - Scary Spice of Spice Girls

* Sabrina Bryan - Disney Channel's "Cheetah Girls."

* Helio Castroneves - Indy 500 driver

* Jennie Garth - Beverly Hills, 90210

* Josie Maran - Model-actress

* Cameron Mathison - Soap star

* Marie Osmond - Singer

* Albert Reed - Model

* Jane Seymour - Actress

This should be a fun season. :) Gotta root for my fellow IU alum (Cuban) here!

Sabrina and Mel B I think are the ringers here.

I'm really excited for this season already! :)

(Just so I can laugh at Cuban :D)

ETA: The Pairings: (found at http://abc.go.com/primetime/dancingw...n=announcement)

Melanie Brown => Maksim Chmerkovskiy, who returns for his fourth season.
Sabrina Bryan => newcomer Mark Ballas
Helio Catroneves => reigning champ Julianne Hough
Mark Cuban => Kym Johnson
Jennie Garth => newcomer Derek Hough, brother of Season Four winner Julianne Hough
Josie Maran => Season One winner Alec Mazo
Cameron Mathison => Edyta Sliwinska
Floyd Mayweather => Karina Smirnoff
Wayne Newton => two-time champ Cheryl Burke
Marie Osmond => Jonathan Roberts
Albert Reed => Anna Trebunskaya, who returns for her second season
Jane Seymour => Tony Dovolani

I can't wait to see Cuban on DWTS! This is going to be great!

Pretty *YAWN* cast, if you ask me. Marie Osmond? Wayne Newton? Gimme a break. Although I'll probably watch it just for Maksim and Tony. RAWR.

I know the DGs will be excited to have one of their own competing. Judging from the Cheetah Girls movies I've seen, Sabrina looks like she's got a shot.

OTW--I was thinking the same thing. Maybe the show is past its prime?

I mean that Indy car racer--never heard of him? Maybe I live under a rock though.

And Mel B--shouldn't she be spending her time going after Eddie? Between her and Heather Mills, is this the show for bitter exes?

ABC's going dance crazy this season.

DANCE WARS will be held mid-season, between the cycles of DWTS 5.

Really could they find no one else to do DWTS? Sabrina Bryan? Gag me with a spoon, I cannot stand that talentless twat!!!

Bumping for the premiere. What did you think?

Mark Cuban was actually pretty good! I thought Floyd Mayweather was really good - even if the judges didn't.

I was actually surprised by everyone--they all looked pretty good. Even Mark Cuban. I'll admit, I voted for him because I'd like to see him stay around for a few weeks (and I live in San Antonio where he is enemy number 1).

For the ladies, they were all pretty even to me, except for that poor model. She really did look awkward.

I missed the first night, but am really excited about how amped up everyone is this year. I mean, come on - the highest first night scores ever? It's going to make for an interesting season. I was also surprised by Floyd's "low" scores - I thought he did pretty darn good (especially thought he'd score higher than Wayne!)

My conspiracy theory posted for posterity - even though she's a (relative) unknown, I think she's going to stay for a while. Her partner was paired with the first season winner, who also started off her season poorly, but made it to the end. (I think everyone just likes him!) :p

I think Kelly Monaco's soap fans carried her the first season, not her skills. Just an opinion... :)

I agree about Floyd--he was reminiscent of Emmitt Smith to me.

ha ha-my mom who is the biggest Spurs fan over the age of 70 was already putting Cuban down. She kept going on and on about what an ass he is and how everyone in SA hates him. I personally think he is kind of cute and funny-she was very offended when I said this.

What do y'all think of the results from last night?

I don't even want to talk about it. It's such a BS happening! I tried to call and vote. I only got through once. I feel so bad for her!

Seems like every year there is a snafu in the phone voting. I wish they would leave the lines open for longer than 30 min. after the show ends. Don't know what the answer is. I think I was shorted one vote, so I can sympathize with you. :mad:

I get caught up in the dancing aspect of the show and forget that it's a popularity contest as well--when a favorite gets voted off or when a really good dancer has to leave, I am shocked/mad.

I didn't expect her to go home last night, but I also (personally) didn't think she was one of the best ones there. Ever since her paso a couple of weeks ago, I've just been "eh" about her (though Mark is a cutie :))

With the judges' "favorite" to make it to the finals out - who would you pick as the top three? We have four weeks left (as was stated last night) - who do you put in that final week's competition?

My picks:
Helio & Julianne (as long as he sticks to his "secret weapon")
Jennie & Derek
Mel & Maks

Those are my picks as well.

Delta G. has a a little appreciation page for her:
http://www.deltagamma.org/sabrina_bryan.shtml

It's pretty obvious that Sabrina's got talent. I've seen both Cheetah Girls movies and she can sing and dance, no doubt.

I was a bit irked when I found out that she was part of the cast mainly because she's got such a strong song and dance background. The best part of DWTS, IMO, is seeing these celebrities grow and learn as the weeks go by.

It's a shame she was eliminated so early on, but we all know she's got a bright future ahead of her.

It would be really horrible if Marie wins. She cannot dance!

Ah Marie got third place....

I was happy that Helio and Mel were the top 2. I would have been happy with either one of them as the champ--too bad there couldn't have been a tie!

....aaaaand less than a day after he wins his ugly mirrorball trophy, Helio and fiancee are D-O-N-E...DONE!

I read about that. Wonder if the kisses had anything to do with it?

No Dancing with the Stars posts for this season???

There is a thread for this year, but not much has been posted on it from what I can remember.

Eh, it's mostly about who's Greek, not so much about the show itself....

I'm loving Lance and Lacey!

I felt so bad for Misty. I hope that wasn't a career ending injury. Can you imagine? Olympic athlete goes on Dancing With the Stars and ends up losing her whole beach volleyball career because of it? I know, I'm behind the times, but I was just thinking about it. Have they said on the show how her surgery went?

Dancing With The Stars WInners!
 

Unexpected new entry in Dancing With The Stars this season... :D

http://tinyurl.com/DWTSWinners

lol

Cloris is lookin' good !

The NEW Dancing with the Stars Cast is being revealed gradually tonight on ABC. So far....Lil Kim, Lawrence Taylor, Steve-O, KKG Nancy O'Dell, Shawn Johnson, Chuck Wicks, Gilles Marini, and Denise Richards. There are four more to come I believe.

Edit: Ok, also....Steve Wozniak, Belinda Carlisle, David Alan Grier, Jewel, and her husband-Ty Murray.

I know who I'm rooting for!

Lil Kim? REALLY? Wow, um, ok? GO LT!!!!

^^^^
Ditto! First T-Boz on Celebrity Apprentice. Then Taj from SWV on Survivor. And now this. Times must be really hard since she's been out of jail. I guess Foxy Brown will be on in the fall.

I don't watch DWTS, but I will cheer for fellow SC native Nancy O'Dell!

Steve Wozniak? The hippy from Apple Computer?

Former "boyfriend" of Kathy Griffin, too. The man plays a mean game of Segway polo.