Dancing with the Stars: March 2007 Archives
Heather Mills is struggling to continue in ABC's Dancing With The Stars because of severe back problems. Evidently the estranged wife of Sir Paul McCartney has pulled out of hours of rehearsals for the show after the pain proved too much.
Mills has only been able to practice her dance routines for three hours a week, while the rest of the celebs rehearse for nearly 40 hours.
The crazy thing is that you can't really tell on the show! Heather even did a back-flip last week impressing judges and viewers alike.
However, as the show continues, Mills seems to be worried she won't be able to pull it off on only three hours of practice.
"I rehearsed for only three hours last week because my pelvis was really hurting. I thought I can push myself to a degree where my pelvis starts causing huge problems or I can take it easy. I decided against pushing too hard so I could only do three hours," she said. "Thankfully when we were training for the show, before it started, we learned the routines for the first two weeks so I had already learned most of the mambo. But I doubt I'll stay in the show that long."
Mills has even said she is surprised there aren't more prima donnas on Dancing with the Stars. It seems that everyone is getting along nicely.
Maybe the websites that are betting on whether her leg will pop off should switch the pool to bet whether or not Heather can stick with the show.
Dancing with the Stars, American Idol and America's Next Top Model all sent someone home this week. If you missed them, here's a quick recap of who got kicked off what this week!
Dancing with the Stars:
After Tuesday nights results show, two teams were tied for last place with 34 points. Clyde Drexler and partner Elena Grinenko tied with Karina Smirnoff and Billy Ray Cyrus. But that didn't seem to matter when you put their confusing point system into play. As a result, Paulina Porizkova and her partner Alec Mazo, who was the champion of the first season of Dancing With the Stars, were given the boot.
Heather Mills seems to be the star power of the show without even really being much of a US celebrity. She pulled some daring moves this week, as betting websites continue to wager on whether or not her prosthetic leg will fly off.
America's Next Top Model:
Today's the models-in-the-making were challenged to look like men. They were each given a male persona and drag queen and told to work it. Some of them looked convincingly like men. Jaslene even looked like a hot straight dude. It was mind bending.
In the end, the two "full figured" models were left in the bottom two. Tyra decided to let Whitney stay sending Diana home. Natasha seemed to finish on top, because her photo got pulled first.
At the sidebar: Tyra actually looked good tonight. She didn't have on fifteen wigs, instead she had a cute conservative bun in the back. She did have some drag queenish eye lashes on, but she realizes it making it perfectly fine by me. Later in the show she even said drag queens watch her to figure out how to act like a woman. She may be self righteous, but at least she knows where she fits into things.
American Idol:
As I told you earlier, Sanjaya Malakar didn't get voted off. He wasn't even in the bottom three. Instead Chris Sligh, Haley Scarnato and Phil Stacey got the least amount of votes. In the end Chris Sligh said good-bye.
The elimination show also featured a performance of "The Sweet Escape" by Gwen Stefani and Akron.
Heather Mills probably has the least 'star power' of any contestant on this season's Dancing with the Stars on ABC, but now in its second week Mills may be the biggest star on the reality show.
Mills is a 39-year old model most known for her marriage and nasty separation from former Beatle, Paul McCartney.
The judges, however, seem to be impressed with her. She seems to be shocking the media by dancing so well despite the fact that she only has one real leg. The other prosthetic. She even managed to do a back flip that really seemed to wow everyone.
The big question is, how much play will the judges and the media have in the voting? Mills pleaded with viewers to keep her around.
"A year ago there's no way I would ever have believed I'd be dancing now, so I am enjoying every second of it. I really, really hope I'm not going to be the first to go," Heather said on the show.
After two weeks of dancing, the judges have ranked Mills and her partner Jonathan Roberts in fifth place.
ABC will be filled with Dancing with the Stars programming tonight. At 8pm EST, they will recap last night show followed by the results show at 9pm.
Dancing with the Stars has found their final contestant. TV mailman from the hit show Cheers, Cliff Clavin, will hang up his mail bag for some dancing shoes as actor John Ratzenberger replaces Vincent Pastore who dropped out of the hit ABC show earlier this week.
Ratzenberger will only three weeks to rehearse before the show's March 19 premiere, but sources say he has been known to cut-a-rug in the past.
Ratzenberger, 59, will be paired with professional dancer, Edyta Sliwinska.
He had been invited to join the show earlier this year, but couldn't commit due to a scheduling conflict. Those conflicts have been cleared up just in time. I guess everything happen$ for a rea$on.
