Corky Ballas and Cloris Leachman, Dancing with the Stars
It doesn't seem to matter that Cloris Leachman gets a standing ovation from the studio audience every time she hits the dance floor. Or that she wasn't even in the bottom two last week. Judge Bruno Tonioli wants her out. Read why, and see who agrees with him, after the jump...
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Toni Braxton can breathe again. The pop siren may not have added a mirror-ball trophy to her stash of six Grammys, but she went a lot further in the competition than she ever dreamed, and she's taking home something far more important. Read on to see how Dancing with the Stars may have actually improved her health...
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Julianne Hough and Cody Linley, Dancing with the Stars
If Dancing with the Stars producers wanted to shake things up with four new dances, they got their wish: They shook up the pros.
The pros were given the challenge of teaching the hustle, jitterbug, West Coast Swing or salsa to their stars. And they weren't kidding in their pre-dance video packages when they looked and acted— for the first time— like they were floundering. "This week was the toughest ...
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Karina Smirnoff and Rocco DiSpirito, Dancing with the Stars
In the end, he just couldn't follow the recipes. Chef Rocco DiSpirito, who danced with more enthusiasm than talent, got the plane ticket home he should've had last week. "Don't worry about me," he said, smiling, just moments after being eliminated.
After the jump, Rocco explains why a good attitude wasn't enough to keep him in the Dancing fold.
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Cloris Leachman and Corky Ballas, Dancing with the Stars
On Monday night's Dancing with the Stars, Oscar-winner Cloris Leachman finally got her props. And heading into next week's dance, "the old girl" may have an advantage.
Read our complete backstage report, after the jump.
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Tony Dovolani and Susan Lucci
Is the set of Dancing with the Stars cursed? "Oh no, don't say that!" cries birthday girl Toni Braxton, who turned 41 on the day of this week's results show.
Isn't it interesting that going into Season 7, the two dancers we thought would have the most trouble surviving this marathon were Cloris Leachman and Toni Braxton? Leachman, because of her advanced age, and Braxton because of her heart condition. But as we wrap up the third week, those two are laughing all the way to the safety zone of the Red Room while other stars – and pros – are dropping around them. "Maybe there's a floorboard out of place because too many injuries have happened in the same place," says Rocco DiSpirito, looking at the middle of the dance floor.
DWTS has an idea, though, on how to keep couples waylaid by injury in the game. Read all about "Plan B," after the jump.
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Misty May Treanor
It felt, she said, "like someone had hit the back of my foot with a baseball bat." Misty May-Treanor's tenure on Dancing with the Stars came to a sudden and stunning end Friday after she ruptured her Achilles tendon rehearsing the jive. "I heard this 'pop' and then when I tried to put weight on my left foot, there was nothing there," says May-Treanor. "My foot didn't feel like it was even attached."
But the two-time Olympic beach volleyball champion's Dancing days are not necessarily over for good.
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Marlee Matlin and Fabian Sanchez, Dancing with the Stars
In her quiet rehearsal studio, Marlee Matlin rolls her hips, moving to a sort of internal metronome. "My husband is the one who told me I needed to do this show," says Matlin, unstrapping her ballroom heels to relieve her aching feet. "He thought it was a great opportunity for people to see my lighter side."
That lighter side, full of sass and wit, has been overshadowed by a fierce determination to overcome the odds. At 21, Matlin stunned Hollywood by winning an Oscar for her powerful performance in Children of a Lesser God. She was the fabulous newcomer but had barely finished her acceptance speech when the ugly whispers started: It was a sympathy vote because she's deaf. She'd never work aga
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Julianne Hough and Helio Castroneves, Dancing with the Stars
"Wow," says Helio Castroneves, getting his first look inside Indianapolis' massive Conseco Fieldhouse. The auditorium is home court to the Indiana Pacers and the place where Dancing with the Stars' Season 5 champ will return to the dance floor — for the first time in almost two months — in a matter of hours.
It's the morning of Jan. 18, and the cavernous auditorium is a beehive of activity. The stage, T-shaped and almost as long as a basketball court, has a dance floor that reaches deep into an audience estimated at roughly 8,000. The production crew is doing its almost nightly magic act of setting up a complete theater: Workers scurry this way and that, unloading enormous crates that house everything from the bandstand to the dance floor itself. Castroneves, who hasn't strapped on his Latin heels since th
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Sabrina Bryan and Mark Ballas, Dancing with the Stars
No one wanted to keep dancing more than Sabrina Bryan. The Cheetah Girls star, who's been a shot of pure adrenaline on the Dancing with the Stars national tour, flies to India on Friday, Jan. 25, to shoot her third Disney TV-movie.
But as much as she welcomes the reunion with her Cheetah Girls posse, she doesn't want to go. "I'm dying," says Bryan, watching her professional dance partner and real-life leading man, Mark Ballas, rehearse in Indianapolis with another pro. "There have been so many ups and downs of me leaving. I've gone through the sob-fest twice already."
Bryan's last performance on the Dancing tour was on Sunday, Jan. 13, in Kansas City. But she chose not to take the first plane home to prepare for her overseas adven
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