Dancing With The Stars

Polish version of Dancing With The Stars has begun last week. It's their season 5. Click here for the videos.

Larry King interviews the following people on his live show the week before the finals of Season 3 of Dancing With The Stars:

Mario Lopez Emmitt Smith Jerry Springer Joey Lawrence Monique Coleman Carrie Ann Inaba Tom Bergeron Cheryl Burke Karina Smirnoff

Original Air Date: November 10, 2006

Transcript

Thanks to Harriet for getting me the tape of this show.

Well now that Dancing With The Stars season 3 is over, I got some free time to create a page for the British version of the show - Strictly Come Dancing. The page looks exactly the same as my Dancing With The Stars videos page. The videos are created by other people and are stored on YouTube.

One thing you can notice is that the judges in the British show are much more harsh. They rarely give a 10 and 2s and 3s are quite frequent. I don't think the level of dancing in the British version is worse than in the American one.

Also what's interesting is that their Results Show is on the same day as the Performance show, just about 3 hours later. Then on the following night they have another show called It Takes Two where they take interviews of the dancers.

The head judge of Dancing With The Stars Len Goodman has exhaustively used food metaphors in his critique of the dancers. Getting into his frame of mind, I created this illustration of a social dance event last weekend.

A couple of days ago I received an email from a fellow DWTS fan Debbie who described her experience being present at the actual show. With her permission I am posting an excerpt from her email:

A couple of weeks back I was at one of the Wednesday results shows (the one where they had the professionals do a group jive number.) Then last week a friend got notified that she could get tickets for a Tuesday taping. Needless to say, there was no question we were going.

It's a cool experience to attend. Both times I was seated on the main floor center, however, the best seats (and those where folks may be on camera) are reserved for the VIPs and family members of the stars. There's also balcony seating on either side. (My friends were up there.)

We were seated very close to Emmitt's contingent. Lots of big burly football players! His wife is exquisitely beautiful! At the results show I attended, Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin stood next to me before he got dressed to dance and they watched the jive number. Kind of blew me away. Also, at that time Sara Evans was still on, and as we were leaving the studio area and I was driving 'round a corner, there she was standing on the street corner, talking on her cell phone, just like any gal on the street. I couldn't resist calling out to her, "Sara, we love you!" She smiled and said thanks. (I didn't think she was that good of a dancer, but I'm a GREAT fan of her music.) Too bad all her personal problems got in the way.

Truthfully, the camera was right in front of us on and off throughout the evening so at times it blocked our view, but we just craned our necks and oooed and ahhed. The show airs live to the east coast so they started taping at 5 our time. When I went to the Wednesday results show, they did pre-tape the jive number and Julio Inglesias' number with Cheryl and Max dancing. The rest was broadcast live. At the Wednesday show there's time to kill between the pretaping of the dance segments and the live show, so they had a dance contest where the audience could participate. (The prize was a t-shirt.) My friend won the week he went. However, for the main Tuesday show, they didn't have a contest. (Though we were prepared with shoes in hand - ha ha). So, in a nutshell, that's how it all came about.

FYI, the floor is much smaller than it appears on TV. A very cool illusion.

Ashly DelGrosso is now known as Ashly Costa. More info here.

As you know, I am a fan of both DDR and Dancing With The Stars Show. I am very excited to report of a new show coming out in the fall called "DDR With The Stars". Click here for more info!

A bunch of ballroom dance enthusiasts from New York are getting together tonight at a bar to watch Dancing With The Stars just like many other people watch football.

More details here.

The photo on the left was taken at a similar event last year.

Drew Lachey's professional partner Cheryl Burke now has a Website.

The website was created by family and friends of Cheryl in response to her fans interested to know more about her.

I added it to my links section in the new Professional Dancers category. Do you guys know any other websites of the pros? Submit a link here.

If you live in Hollywood CA or are willing to travel there to attend the live taping of the final episode of Dancing With The Stars, here is how to get tickets. If there are no tickets left, they will keep your information and will invite you for the next season.