Derek Hough, Dancing with the Stars
He may not have celebrity partner Jennie Garth with him on the road, but Dancing with the Stars pro Derek Hough is a standout all by himself. Blessed with dazzling good looks and blinding speed, some girls in the audience actually scream when his moves take him to the edge of the dance floor. Derek, who is Julianne's older brother, has been paired with a variety of partners, including pro Cheryl Burke and the Cheetah Girls' Sabrina Bryan (while her partner, Mark Ballas, sits out some numbers, still recovering from a dislocated shoulder). TVGuide.com spoke to Hough about life in the ballroom-dance world's fast lane.
TVGuide.com: You've done this before — you did the 2006 Dancing with the Stars winter tour.
Derek Hough: Right. But this tour is a lot different from the last one. When I did the last tour, it was
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Louis van Amstel, Dancing with the Stars
Think of the Soft Scrub Presents: Dancing with the Stars national tour as a chessboard with different pieces in play every night. That's the challenge for choreographer and pro dancer Louis van Amstel, who has to deal with an all-new show and a rotating lineup of celebrities and pros over the course of the two-month tour. But Van Amstel says he's not about to hold back.
TVGuide.com: Is the tour going to be different this season?
Louis van Amstel: It's going to be completely different. We're not using one piece of music from the prior tours. And we're building something I've been wanting to build for years: dancing with poles. It's not based on striptease. It's more based on skillful dancing with fun and wit between the poles. That will be a big treat. I want to jump on those poles!
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Joey Lawrence and Edyta Sliwinska, Dancing with the Stars
For actor Joey Lawrence, heading out for his third Dancing with the Stars national tour means getting to see the country in a whole new light. "I had never really traveled by road," says Lawrence. "I always flew. So it was really neat to see America like that."
His pro partner, Edyta Sliwinska, must like the road as well. Sliwinska, a native of Poland, is the only Dancing pro to have competed all five seasons — and now she's off on her third national tour as well. For her, the Dancing never stops.
First, let's check in with Joey Lawrence....
TVGuide.com: Why did you sign up to tour again?
Joey Lawrence: Because they treat us great. They give us a beautiful ride [to] travel across the country. The bus is just incre
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Sabrina Bryan and Mark Ballas, Dancing with the Stars
She may not have won the Dancing with the Stars disco-ball trophy, but Sabrina Bryan won something equally important: instant name recognition (not to mention a new love). In the most shocking elimination in the show's five-season history, Disney Channel's Cheetah Girl, an early favorite, was sent packing in Week 6, little more than halfway through the competition. "I know there was a lot more I could have pulled out of her if we had stayed in," says her pro partner and now boyfriend, Mark Ballas. "So I'm definitely going to be pulling out all the stops on the tour."
Well, almost all the stops. Ballas is still recovering from a dislocated left shoulder and has to carefully dance around it. Still, this happy twosome can't wait to partner up again and show off
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Cheryl Burke and Wayne Newton, Dancing with the Stars
This will be the third national tour for one of Dancing with the Stars' most popular pros, Cheryl Burke. Even before the fifth season ended at the end of November, the two-time champ started tour rehearsals and then packed up to hit the road again — without a single day off. There was just one fly in the ointment: A health scare the night before the tour's big opening night in Seattle on December 18th. After cramping on stage during final run-throughs, Burke was rushed to a Seattle emergency room and diagnosed with possible appendicitis. Thankfully, it wasn't. And after getting cleared by her family doctor, Burke is back on tour and in winning form.
To be accurate, maybe the tour should be called "SoftScrub Presents Dancing — and Singing — with the Stars." Because Las Vegas legend read more
Monique Coleman and Alec Mazo, Dancing with the Stars
As the Dancing with the Stars tour continues, TVGuide.com caught up with Monique Coleman and Alec Mazo to hear details about what's happening on the road. Coleman, who's also known for her High School Musical role, says she can't wait to start ballroom dancing again. Ask her if those teeny costumes still fit, and she panics a little: "I sure as heck hope so!"
For Mazo, this will be his third national Dancing tour. This time out will be different in two big ways: First, he'll be partnering with actress Monique Coleman, and he's thrilled about it, he says, "because I've never had a celebrity partner on the road." Second, he'll be traveling as a newlywed. Mazo and fellow Dancing pro Edyta Sliwinska got married last fall, just before the beginning of the s
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Marie Osmond and Jonathan Roberts, Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars isn't missing a step. With the ABC hit's fifth season barely a memory, many of your favorite celebs and pro partners — from the most recent cycle as well as previous ones — are taking their fancy footwork on the road. SoftScrub Presents Dancing with the Stars kicked off Dec. 18 at the Key Arena in Seattle, Washington, and winds down Feb. 10, 2008, in Philadelphia. TVGuide.com will have updates and features every sizzling step of the way, starting with partners Marie Osmond and Jonathan Roberts.
Marie Osmond, who's toured her whole life, knows the secret to staying happy and healthy on the road. She grabs what her mother used to call "the busy box" and what Marie calls her "entertainment center." In the box? Her computer, iPod, and books, along with knitting, crocheting, or needlepoint. "Whatever project I'm working on," she explains.
Not that she'll have much free time. When she was asked to join the Dancing tour, Osmond's fir
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Cheryl Burke, Dancing with the Stars
The show may be over, but the drama isn't. As a nearly sold-out crowd of 6,000 settled into Seattle's Key Arena Tuesday night for the opening of the Dancing with the Stars national tour, the announcer made a statement no one wanted to hear: Due to illness, Cheryl Burke would not be dancing. As loud groans filled the auditorium, you had to wonder what fresh disaster had befallen the show and one of its most popular pros.
"Last night, during the run-through, I was cramping and in pain," Burke tells TV Guide exclusively. "I couldn't even stand up straight." Burke, who was rushed to the hospital, was told that it is a possible case of appendicitis. She will fly home to San Francisco on Wednesday for a second opinion from her family doctors. "I hope it doesn't require surgery," she says. If it does, Burke will be off the two-month tour for an undetermined period of time.
"It's a disaster," says pro Louis van Amstel, who is choreographing the tour and has ha
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Helio Castroneves
What do you do when you've missed the big cast party because ABC puts you on the red eye from Los Angeles to New York (to appear on Good Morning America) on the night you've won Dancing with the Stars?
If you're two-time Indy 500 champ Helio Castroneves, you fly back into town and throw your own little Hollywood soiree (with the help of Brazilian rum-maker Leblon) at the swank Sunset Tower Hotel for about 100 friends from the cast and crew, including Sabrina Bryan, Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin. "I've been traveling so much that I want to make sure I enjoy [the victory]," says Castroneves, who was in Las Vegas yesterday for Floyd Mayweather's fight and has made numerous media appearances in the last 10 days in New York and Orlando.
Castroneves' pro partner, two-time Dancing champ Julianne Hough, was on hand as well, looking gorgeous in a black-and-white cocktail dress. But she was also strangely pale after spending a week on vacation in Hawaii. "It
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Mark Ballas, Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars pro Mark Ballas, 21, is on the mend after undergoing arthroscopic surgery Wednesday afternoon on his left shoulder. The popular pro, who teamed with Cheetah Girl Sabrina Bryan, dislocated his shoulder doing the cha-cha during the Dancing finale on Nov. 27, tearing a shoulder muscle in the process.
According to his father, ballroom great Corky Ballas, the minimally invasive surgery "went really well," and at some point Mark should be able to join the Dancing national tour that kicks off Dec. 18 in Seattle. That's good news for Ballas, who, before this, has never suffered a serious dance injury. And it's great news for Bryan, who is his real-life girlfriend and was facing two months on the road without him.
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