“Dancing with the Stars” producers were overjoyed by the ratings Bristol Palin brought the show so now they want ANOTHER Palin for next season. Sarah is pretty much out of the question, so they’re after Bristol’s dad Todd Palin. Bristol shocked viewers when she landed in the top three, although she DID improve, she was never in winner Jennifer Grey’s league. DWTS is also interested in another politician’s daughter – Meghan McCain.
Margaret Cho had a few things to say about her Dancing with the Stars competitor Bristol Palin, after the fact. Cho blogged that Sarah Palin FORCED her daughter to do DWTS. According to Margaret’s well-placed source, Sarah blamed Bristol’s unwed motherhood and personal problems for costing her the election. She felt that if Bristol did the popular show, people would learn to love her and she’d become an asset. Indeed, Cho really liked Bristol and described her as “warm and incredibly supportive” and felt bad about the weight criticism she had to endure. Not winning probably made Bristol even more likeable.
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It seems that Jennifer Grey’s biggest professional triumphs so far both involved dancing – “Dirty Dancing” in 1987 and “Dancing With The Stars” this week. The 50 year old Grey triumphed over much younger competitors including 20 year old Bristol Palin. We probably have Jennifer to thank for avoiding riots in the streets that might have happened if the less graceful Bristol had won. Jennifer and her little girl Stella, 9, arrived in New York for TV appearances.
We never get tired of looking at old photos of young Elvis and this one is particularly noteworthy. It’s from photographer Alfred Wertheimer’s collection of photos taken in 1956 when Elvis was 21. According to Alfred, this photo was taken as Elvis arrived to appear on The Steve Allen Comedy Show and a fan from Long Island greeted him. HELL0 – is that fan not a dead ringer for Jennifer Grey? – in character for her movie “Dirty Dancing,” of course.
What IS it with these Palins? Once the most openly maligned family in America has turned everything around and now it seems they can do no wrong. Bristol continues to clump her way through “Dancing With The Stars” while far better dancers are voted off. And Sarah’s new show “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” broke the TLC ratings record for a premier, drawing five million viewers. The Hollywood Reporter says both fans and critics will find what they’re looking for on Sarah’s show. The Palin’s popularity continues to astonish us.
Audrina Patridge may have been distracted because she’s still trying to live down her mother’s tirade after Audrina was cut from “Dancing With the Stars.” That might explain why she’s wearing plastic booties over her suede boots – the kind that doctors and house painters wear. (Maybe she’s planning to return the boots and wants to keep them clean.) Anyway, this is how she looked walking around Beverly Hills.
Maxsim is going to be green with envy. His “Dancing with the Stars” rival Derek Hough has been photographed several times with his Hanes underwear label peeking out. The Hanes people saw an opportunity so they signed him up to be their underwear model. We doubt if clean cut Derek’s photos will be as overtly sexy as David Beckham’s billboards were for Calvin Klein. But, who knows?
In the not-so-distant past, Levi Johnston (the mouthy father of Bristol Palin’s baby Tripp) was referred to by the Palin family as “Mr Hollywood” because he was scrambling for a show business career. The worm has turned. Encouraged by her reception on “Dancing With The Stars,” Bristol Palin has acquired an agent and not only is SHE going Hollywood, but she had her two year old Tripp sign with her agent also. No more Alaska, she plans to STAY in sunny Los Angeles!
We weren’t all that interested to learn that Audrina Patridge has a new VH1 reality series about her family starting after her stint on “Dancing with the Stars.” Until, that is, Audrina was voted off the show and her mother Lynn was apparently outraged. Audrina and her mom and friends had a few drinks at Beso later that night and her loose cannon of a mother took a smoke break outside. Paparazzi eagerly filmed her cocktail fueled blurt that “Audrina should have WON!” She went on an expletive laden tirade about how Audrina’s new reality show would be better than “The Hills” and she badmouthed Lauren Conrad. As her startled friends dragged her inside, Lynn yelled “Drina is going to the next level, baby!” Looks like another dysfunctional, but amusing family.
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No one is happier that Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino got booted off “Dancing with the Stars” than his neighbors in The Palazzo apartments. All the contestants are given furnished apartments at the expensive complex near their dance rehearsal studio. Mike was particularly noisy – he kept late hours and had lots of raucous friends visiting just like when he was at Jersey Shore. Loud music was always on the menu. Neighbors were relieved when The Situation left the building.