Jewel has a message for Melissa Rycroft and any injured Dancing with the Stars celebrity: If you don't dance, you should leave, the songstress says.
"Being a rodeo and bull-riding fan it's hard for me to get used to someone who is injured still getting a score," the singer writes on husband Ty Murray's MySpace. "I think the rule ...
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Nancy O'Dell and Jewel have withdrawn from Dancing with the Stars due to injury, less than a week away from the Season 8 premiere on Monday.
Jewel, who blogged about tendonitis in her knees last week, has sustained a fractured tibia in both legs, while O'Dell has suffered a torn meniscus and requires surgery. O'Dell told TVGuide.com Wednesday she twisted her right knee while rehearsing the salsa and exacerbated it days later doing the waltz.
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Dancing's new season is just a few weeks away — the sequins and sambas return March 9 (8 pm/ET, ABC) — but Jewel is sidelined already.
The singer, who's hitting the parquet along with her husband, rodeo star Ty Murray, wrote on her blog Wednesday that knee trouble is keeping her from rehearsals for several days.
"My knees have been hurting so badly that I finally broke down and talked to Ty's knee doctor yesterday," she wrote. "He said I have tendonitis in my knees and that I have to start a course of medicine to try and bring the swelling down."
Jewel lamented that she was "kinda bummed" over the injury.
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Jewel's Ty’d the knot.After 10 years together, the singer and rodeo champion Ty Murray eloped to the Bahamas and exchanged vows in a private ceremony Thursday night, People reports."She wore a traditional wedding gown, while Ty wore his favorite blue jeans, white shirt and cowboy hat," Jewel's rep told the magazine. "The couple is very happy and look forward to enjoying their honeymoon."The couple share share a 2,200-acre ranch in Stephenville, Texas.Jewel, 34, is a judge on CMT's Nashville Star. Murray, 38, hosted Ty Murray’s Celebrity Bull-Riding Challenge last year on CMT.Jewel told People last year that she and Murray weren’t rushing to the altar."We don't know if there's a point — we've lapped our friends who've gotten married and divorced," she explained. "We probably would if we had kids — we're just not sure we want them yet. But we've had something really special already." — Tim Molloy
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Cheers to Nashville Star for cutting to the chase. American Idol's countrified cousin whittled down the audition process — which takes Simon Cowell & Co. seemingly endless weeks — to 20 minutes, and promptly presented the Top 12 finalists. It helped that there were none of the airtime-sucking freak-shows that make Idol's initial episodes so painful. Plus, Jewel smoothly transitioned from host to judge, making room for new emcee Billy Ray Cyrus to bring some of that Hannah Montana/Dancing With the Stars magic to the show as it's transplanted from USA to NBC. In a word: Giddyap!• Share your own raves and rants about other shows on the Reader Cheers & Jeers discussion board.• We may feature your Cheer or Jeer on TVGuide.com or in TV Guide magazine!
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