Contrary to widespread reports, Debi Mazar says she has absolutely no dancing experience on her résumé. So what's with all that B-girl talk? "I did a hip-hop TV pilot for a friend," the Dancing with the Stars contestant tells TVGuide.com. "All of the New York City breakers were the B-boys. I was just the girl who liked to dance at the clubs." But her rhythm in the clubs hasn't easily translated to the ballroom. "It's so grueling. I didn't know how to keep my feet together. I'm, like, f---ing pigeon-footed, like I'm about to take a sh-- or pee-pee. I look like an idiot!" the always sassy star says. Find out how she's learning to focus (and who gave her the advice), why she chose Maksim Chmerkovskiy as her partner and more.
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy may have met his perfect match — and we're not talking about Karina Smirnoff. The Dancing with the Stars pro is paired with the feisty Debi Mazar, and if you've seen Mazar's multiple tweets praising him to no end, it's clear they get along famously. "I think since we're both from Brooklyn and have that similarity, we just get along," Chmerkovskiy tells TVGuide.com. "We both can dish it out like hell and we can both take it. This whole back-and-forth thing is great and whenever you meet somebody who can make fun of themselves, it's always refreshing." Not so refreshing? Joanna Krupa calling him "a little impatient." See what the unabashedly honest dancer has to say about her comments and find out who he thinks is a dark horse this season.
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What's a dancing star without a pro partner? ABC has officially unveiled the 16 pairings for Season 9 of Dancing with the Stars. What do you think of these matchups?
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Im not sure if it was the bidding war over the newly-titled Smoke Jumpers Dramas emotional meltdown on The View or the whiff of desperation that seems to be surrounding Vince these days but tonights episode had a renewed energy and some of those laugh-out-loud lines that Ive been waiting for all season This is what I call progress Im no Hollywood insider but the entire interview with the ladies of daytime felt a little contrived though it did allow Johnny a chance for some cathartic release so hopefully we will get past this Jacqueline obsession Debi Mazar can always be counted on to deliver as the eternally perturbed Shauna and I enjoy the fact that she is now representing Johnny I would love to see what would happen if the two of them got together Could Shauna end up becoming Johnnys rebound girl The currently unemployed and unemployable Chase brother was reduced to a parade of meetings with disinterested studio chiefs Tom Rothm
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Debi Mazar (Entourage), Aida Turturro (The Sopranos) and Karen Duffy (Dumb and Dumber) are shopping around a syndicated talk show fancied as a New Jersey take on The View, sources tell the Reporter. The line for tickets forms at Exit 143.... Sci Fi Channel has greenlit Revolution, a futuristic (duh) action-drama pilot about colonists of the Earth-like New America fighting for independence from their increasingly hostile homeland, the United State.... Damon Wayans is cocreating a new family sitcom for ABC, one edgier in tone than My Wife & Kids and in which he will star as a widower who takes in the teen stepson he never knew.
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