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Bristol Palin Takes Third on DWTS

LOS ANGELES (The Blaze/AP) — Jennifer Grey is the new “Dancing With the Stars” champ.

The 50-year-old actress beat out actor Kyle Massey and voting favorite Bristol Palin to take the title Tuesday.

Grey and professional partner Derek Hough earned a string of perfect scores on their way to the mirrorball trophy. The couple consistently topped the judges’ leaderboard throughout the season, but Palin’s cadre of voter support led to some surprising upsets, including Brandy’s elimination after earning a perfect score last week.

Grey overcame physical pain to claim the “Dancing” championship, including an old injury in her neck and a new one in her knee.

Bristol Palin could not overcome low scores from judges to become the new “Dancing With the Stars” champ.A cadre of dedicated voters helped Palin overcome less-than-stellar scores throughout the competition and remain in the competition, but she was the first contestant to be eliminated Tuesday night, trailing leader Jennifer Grey and Kyle Massey.

Palin’s improbable run for the finals had been championed by some conservative bloggers, who led get-out-the-vote campaigns on behalf of the 20-year-old single mom. Palin’s fan support was evident when she was voted in over Brandy — who had received a perfect score for her tango — on last week’s show, prompting some viewers to question the veracity of the “Dancing” voting system.

The show acknowledged its voting system was temporarily overwhelmed after Monday’s show, but the issue was resolved quickly and “affected each finalist equally.”

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  • Cru Jones
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 4:48pm

    Apparently all of those people who are upset that Bristol stayed on as long as she did never saw the season that Jerry Springer was on it. He was awful, he never improved after all those weeks, the judges always scored him low, yet he stayed on until almost the final round. It’s a popularity contest and the name Palin is obviously popular. Get over it. I commend Bristol for sticking her neck out there, in Los Angeles no less, knowing the filthy hate that would be spewed towards her by liberals and RINO’s.

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    • Canuck GB Fan
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 6:31pm

      …and also Ty Murray was a fan fave and he stayed till 3rd or 4th place. He wasn’t any better.

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  • ohioan1000
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 4:30pm

    I thought the ending was boring and disappointing. Jennifer Grey has lots of dancing experience (so does Brandy who likely has a choreographer for her performances). Kyle or Bristol should have won–both are amateurs who became wonderful dancers. Can’t complain though since I did not vote.

    I think it would be interesting to have a dwts season with just the professionals completing (but I digress).

    –mama grizzly for Palin 2012

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  • Diamond Girl
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 4:26pm

    Much ado about nothing~

    Grey was the best dancer, she won,. over and out.

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  • Spyder
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 3:55pm

    Seeing someone who was professionally trained, like Grey, win this competition is exactly why I’m not interested in watching it going forward. What IS the point? I want to see people who are not professionally trained get in the ring with a trained dance partner and work hard to win. Think of the analogy, “Knowing a foreign language fluently and then signing up for a class in school to learn that language, even though you already know it.“ Easy ”A”? Absolutely! But was it earned? I have no interest in watching a competition (And I do use that term very loosely here) if the producers are stacking the deck. It reminds me of old TV game shows giving out the answers to certain contestants who were popular with the public so they could boost ratings. There are so many people who say that the show lost credibility based on Bristol Palin and her accomplishments. I say the show lost credibility when a trained dancer won the competition instead of people who were there to really compete with no professional training and running on the drive to succeed.

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  • Sunnyr
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:57pm

    I just came from the Yahoo Blog and I have never read more “frothing-at-the-mouth-like-rabid-skunks” HATE messages in my life. Poor Bristol has exceeded even the venom the DemocRATs spewed at George Bush. The LEFT are truly a bunch of deranged, hate-filled Maggots who would love to destroy the entire Palin family. It is truly sickening. As for Bristol, she is a WINNER and no one can take that away from her. Congratulations, Bristol and best of luck in all future endeavors.

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    • General K
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 9:44pm

      Guess what I blindly hate Liberls, Dumbacrats, Queers, Commies, Progressives, and Race Hustling Poverty Pimps equally. Top that haters!

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  • doglady
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:46pm

    Good Job Bristol! You are a brave young woman.

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  • neverending
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:13pm

    to LTB – sorry that the truth hurts. We need to be putting as much energy and ambition and care about our Country!!!

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  • charles1540
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:47pm

    No wonder this country on the down hill slide. We as a nation are about to collapse and what are we talking about DWTS.

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    • neverending
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:12pm

      That is the very point I have been making!!! Thank you.

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    • butler180
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:39pm

      Right on, Right on, Right on (borrowed from Rush L)

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:47pm

    She hung in there… it took courage. Never watched the show, never will. Simple.

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  • neverending
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:59am

    I am very thankful this Thanksgiving for many things but above all that this is over with and we don’t have to listen to how badly and unfair chubby cheeks was being treated and hopefully no more whining and complaining and crying over such nonsense. One thing we know for sure she certainly has bump and grind down to a pat and now that she has proven that we can worry about what is happening in our beautiful GOD given country. And maybe sarah can find a way to lead bristol and her sister on a better path then they are on right now.

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    • ltb
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:23pm

      You’re rude. Too bad your parents never taught you any manners.

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    • cindyk618
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:41pm

      LTB, Neverending is just your typical compassionate liberal. I am sure that he/she would never stand for a posting that made insulting comments about president Obama’s daughters.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on November 25, 2010 at 2:14am

      cindyk618,

      ‘Neverending’ is probably a cover for Megan McCain. She’s pissed-off that she couldn’t get the gig.

      Happy Thanksgiving

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  • cindyk618
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:56am

    Maybe Bristol Palin should take dance lessons, play the starring role in a movie about dancing and then be a contestant on DWTS. I think that she will have a much better chance at winning the trophy once she has more dancing expierence under her belt. DUH!

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  • Dandylyon
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:44am

    How is the worship of the conserative mass’s over Palin or her daughter any different then the worship for Obama was or is.

    It seems that people don’t even try to be different or there own person anymore.

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    • ltb
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:12pm

      Defending a patriotic American who has been wrongfully maligned is not the same thing as worshiping a lying thief who is trying to destroy America.

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    • Dandylyon
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 6:01pm

      Didnt the people that voted for Obama think he was a patriotic American going to change the country to a better place??

      You won’t know how patriotic she REALLY is tell she is elected,I guess I’m just starting to see cracks in her“notice me Im the real thing”retoric.

      The idea her kid is a good dancer is a joke if your not blinded by her “mama grizzly” retoric.

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  • butler180
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:44am

    I thought that dancing with the stars was suppose to be one pro and one amateur.
    Wrong – it’s about pros only.
    Shame on the judges, shame on the audience as no amateur can out perform a paid dancer

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  • Slayer
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:40am

    I tried voting from two cell phones which I had never voted on anything before. Both times I got a message saying I’d reached the maximum limit for voting from those numbers and to vote online. So I went online and after filling out the form, it wouldn’t process.
    Ultimately, this entire episode was important because it showed the absolute intolerance by the Left of anyone being able to vote for what they want. And it shows the violent tendencies of the Left who threatened Bristol‘s life and forced the show to add security because the Left can’t stand dissent whether it’s Bristol Palin or Barack Obama.
    Bristol still won because she is the one everyone was talking about and she helped to expose the hatred, intolerance and danger that is the Progressive Liberal movement.

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  • voter_imposed_term_limits
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:46am

    DWTS = Didn’t Watch This Show

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  • 5
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:39am

    To whom it may concern,
    Brandy’s loss is the most humility, discouraging, concocted, despicable, racist and retractable thing I think I have seen all ? week, maybe longer. This will not stand.
    I will be contacting on Her behind, I mean Herbehalf 911, CIA NAACP, NAFTA, FBI, ACLU, TSA and many more letters if I can think of any.

    Yours Lovingly and Truly,
    Rev. Al Sharpton, OK OK and Jessie too

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    • Country
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 7:16pm

      Good thing Bristol did not win, there would have been riots if this conservative daughter won over a black actor or an over aged whining baby who was in one movie in the eighties.

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  • 5
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:36am

    To whom it may concern,
    Brandy’s loss is the most humility, discouraging, concocted, despicable, racist and retractable thing I think I have seen all ? week, maybe longer. This will not stand.
    I will be contacting on Her behind, I mean Herbehalf 911, CIA NAACP, NAFTA, FBI, ACLU, TSA and many more letters if I can think of any.

    Yours Lovingly and Truly,
    Rev. Al Sharpton, OK OK and Jessie too.

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  • Ezekiel38
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:31am

    I am disappointed with ABC on having a performer and dancer on DWTS. Jennifer Grey has been dancing since the age of 4, she starred in Dirty Dancing. Because she had an accident further in her life that became an impediment to her dancing career, DWTS became ‘rehab’ for her. Every single week she came and complained about her injuries and the pain it caused her during practice. It was a given that she had nothing to prove to us but to herself. With her talent already established, she won on account of a 12-week rehabilitation. The true winners are Kyle and Bristol!

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  • April
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:09am

    Bristol Palin did excellent, especially for someone with no dance experience (ahem Grey) and the hateful responses from Liberals, death threats, etc., once again shows what the left is REALLY all about, nonetheless on a popularity contest – reality check needed.

    The All Barack Channel should be thanking conservatives for their ratings, next season won’t ever reach the popularity Bristol did bring to the show.

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    • john seven eighteen
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:23am

      “…next season won’t ever reach the popularity Bristol did bring to the show.”

      You nailed, that’s exactly right. Of course, i already heard they are trying to get Portia DeGenerous and/or Ellen DeGenerous to do the show so they can have the first same-sex couple do the show. It’s all about controversy and ratings.

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    • KenInIL
      Posted on November 25, 2010 at 2:54am

      If BHO isn’t on next season, it will only be because his advisers told him to wait until he leaves office!!

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  • iupindiana
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:08am

    When you read the DWTS facebook comments you will be shocked or maybe not with the hate in people over just a popularity/talent?/glitz show. It scares me that they don’t even know the girl and leave such hateful remarks. I suppose that they haven’t heard – if you can‘t say something nice don’t say anything at all. Bristol was very courageous and gained the most from the experience.

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    • neverending
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:11pm

      How about gaining experience and focusing in on being a caring Mother for that precious little boy instead of seeing how she can perfect bump and grind – I find it rather disgusting and especially since her Mother claims to have faith, family values, etc.

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  • Silversmith
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 9:58am

    Dancing with the stars is a popularity contest that involves dancing not the other way around. It’s nice to see a normal kid keep up with the “trained since they were 2” hollywood crowd. Makes me think that the negative hype against the Palins is really just that.

    Silversmith

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  • john seven eighteen
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 9:57am

    No doubt Bristol received a lot of votes because of her mother, but you have to give her props for hanging in there despite the idiots who threatened her and tried to intimidate her. The thing that surprised me most is how much her fellow contestants and the stars warmed up to her, even though you know most or all of them probably hate Sarah.

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    • We Are Not Alone
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:02am

      Agreed….. Lee Ann Womack – I HOPE YOU DANCE says it all

      Love the Palins, sticking in the eye of all those haters…..

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    • john seven eighteen
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:19am

      @We

      Excellent connection, I always loved that song.

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    • KenInIL
      Posted on November 25, 2010 at 2:36am

      Meggie Mac eat your heart out!

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  • macwedge
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 9:56am

    I am so suprised that Sharpton/Jackson and all the other racist ******** did not begin judicial proceedings with the ACLU in the defense of Brandy’s loss.

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  • TruthTalker
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 9:55am

    don’t care

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  • cubber
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 9:53am

    FIRST in the hearts or REAL Americans. BE PREPARED.

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    • 5
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:23am

      Palin was the only true no-body. Grey was a dancer in movies so She’s a cheater. I don’t even care. I’m just Glad Bristol held Her own with all the Haters on the left.

      I beat Sosros paid 50,000 people to call in.

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    • Huckabee Gingrich 12
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:33am

      How is a Palin on “Dancing with the STARS”? Outside of their own minds, the Palins are not “stars”. Celebrities, yes, “stars”, not so much. Bogart was a “star”. Marilyn Monroe was a “star” . Angelina is a “star”. The Palins are hicks with money and hopefully the country will be as bored with them as I am by ‘12.

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    • 5
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:45am

      HUCKELBERRY NEWT 12,
      You’re not a Conservative. Not even a Rino. Your a plant. If you hate a whole family You have the problem, not them. They have more class in their crap than you do just by what you said. Your two Guys are never going to win. EVER. Huck is a back staber and Newts a Rino. Wake up fool. More people no Bristol than your whole family combined and I’m talking 5 or 6 generations. ALL OF YOUR FAMILY is nothing to any Palin in being a Star, so STFU Loser.

       
    • Huckabee Gingrich 12
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:34pm

      @5
      I don’t “hate” the Palins. Calling people hicks isn’t “hating” them. Based on the overall tone of your post, I dare say that YOU are the hater. And if you think a person can’t be a true conservative if they are against Gov. Palin, you’re of the same mentality as people who cry “racist” when The Vengislator is criticized. The Palins are a flash in the pan, and their 15 minutes will hopefully be up soon.

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    • Crowley
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:01pm

      To huck/ging The show uses celebrities. The Palins are celebrities now. Your whole point is a silly play on semantics. And as far as you pretending there was no hate in your post; you do realize that the way you used “hick” is akin to a racial slur, right? I’m curious what your definition of “hick” is.

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    • Huckabee Gingrich 12
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:44pm

      @CROWLEY
      The show isn’t called “Dancing with the Celebrities”. It is obviously misnamed. “Hick” is not at all akin to a racial slur. See, here‘s what people like you don’t seem to get: A person’s skin color or gender is not a choice, and should not be criticized per se. A person’s lifestyle, e.g., being a hick or a queer, IS a choice, and can rightly be critcized all day long without neccessarily hating the person. I don‘t suspect you’ll be intellectually honest enough to acknowledge this.

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    • Crowley
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:52pm

      You are still playing the juvenile semantics game with the name of the show. Grow up. And you are a coward for not stating your definition of “hick” and how it applies to the Palins. You have zero credibility.

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    • clrkrd
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:37pm

      “queer”? Really NEWT GING? Your intolerance is showing. I assume you think the Palins are “hicks” becasue they hunt and live in a non-metropolitan area? Hmmmmm. I am quite sure you did not use the word “hicks” in a loving way, so it was mean to demean them. So, what are your criticisms of “queers”?

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:52pm

      Think that was probably a fair assessment. I saw the first show and was surprised she made it through that round. Cute girl and probably worked very hard but not a natural. I’m happy for her and hopefully she had a good time. I do agree about Jennifer Grey, tho, I thought this was amateurs dancing with stas unless Dirty Dancing didn’t count.

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    • JohnEightOne2Ten
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 3:02pm

      Huck/Gring, you are out of touch with true conservatives. You don‘t have to be for the Palin’s, but to be the most prolific mouth against them everytime they are mentioned?????? Want to discuss inadequaciies, check out Mr. Gingrich‘s skeleton’s, like book deal problems, martial infidelity, etc. etc. Don’t get me wrong, Newt is a good conservative, but absolutely no better, in fact looking up at the Palin’s. Go check out a website you can agree with.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 3:03pm

      5,

      Yep! I have figured him for a planted Democrat for quite some time now. His writing gives him away.

      Happy Thanksgiving

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    • calijohn
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 3:28pm

      classy, my ass.
      how about that maiidle finger coment?
      real classy.
      trailer trash.

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    • Huckabee Gingrich 12
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 4:19pm

      @CROWLEY
      I suppose ther could be many definitions of “hick”, but I’ll give you one that fits the Palins: Thin-skinned, ill-mannered hypocrites who want to give all their critics the middle finger.

      @CLARK
      Concerning my criticisms of queers, do a TheBlaze search on the jetBlue stewardess who got fired.

      @DAVE
      Again with the “anybody who doesn’t agree with me is a commie” mentality! I’m sorry you got suckered into Palin-Mania, but someday you’re going to have to come to grips that a lot of CONSERVATIVES are against her, and she has ZERO chance of being elected President of the United States. You’re still in the denial stage.

      @JOHN
      One could almost say that Bristol Palin puts the “ass” in “class”.

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    • Crowley
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 4:32pm

      sigh . . .

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    • Deuteronomy22
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 4:47pm

      Bristol is not a “Star” as the shows title would imply. Jennifer is or was anyway. Bristol is a cute girl next door from Alaska with honestly no charisma but she played well and showed class in her efforts.

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    • Phreedom
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 4:47pm

      Really is all this worth arguing over??

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    • Supreme Galooti
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 8:00pm

      Hey Dingleberry/Grinch,

      Oh, never mind.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on November 25, 2010 at 2:01am

      Huckabee Gingrich 12,

      Actually, you sound like the hick! Only stupid people talk like you do. Stupid people, progressives, and un-American slobs.

      However, I’m still going to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on November 25, 2010 at 2:19am

      Read it and weep Ging-Huck-12…

      “ABC a Champion, Too, Thanks to Bristol Palin” New York Times.

      Happy Thanksgiving

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    • Caffeinated Texan
      Posted on November 25, 2010 at 4:43am

      Huck: How many real “stars” by your definition would be on the show? As potential titles for the show, “Dancing with Celebrities”, or the more accurate “Dancing With People Who Have Been Mentioned At Least Once On Entertainment Tonight” don’t exactly roll off the tongue.

      Most of the people who end up on the show are either Has-beens, or reality show losers who just weren’t content with their allotted fifteen minutes of fame. But, stangely enough, every season, a few of them turn out to be darned good dancers, and it’s pretty entertaining to watch it happen.

      Somehow, I don’t think Bogey or Marilyn Monroe would be good candidates for the show. You know, since they’re dead. And since it could be difficult to find 15 or so has-beens who were once big enough to be considered “stars” by your definition, and current stars like Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts are too busy in their primary profession to take 3 months off to learn to dance like professionals, the show’s producers fill in some of the slots with celebreties.

      Sorry if that doesn’t meet with your approval. I guess millions of viewers are wrong. Or not.

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