Last week, actress Kristy Swanson and Olympic medalist Lloyd Eisler saw their on-the-ice partnership result in a championship on Fox's Skating with Celebrities, as they edged out sportscaster Jillian Barberie and pro John Zimmerman. While Swanson balked at discussing her and Eisler's reported off-rink romance — "I don't really want to get into my personal life," she deferred — everything else was fair game in this TVGuide.com Q&A.
TVGuide.com: Wasn't there a gossip item weeks ago that Jillian Barberie and her partner had won Skating with Celebrities, and it leaked out because there would be hubbub since she had training as a kid...?Kristy Swanson: I know that ever since we shot the last episode, we had to keep [the outcome] a secret. There were photographs of us wearing the medals and holding the trophies, and the producers were afraid that it could get
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Skating with Celebrities Why is it that I saw more falls during the recent Olympic ice-dancing competition than during the entire season of Skating with Celebrities? I don't care if the Torino routines were technically and artistically more difficult — it's just not right. And speaking of the recent global games, I was so out of the loop. I had no idea that Sir CrankyPants was actually Sasha Cohen's coach. Plus, I had no clue that Jillian's partner, John Zimmerman, was married to Italian Olympic skater Silvia Fontana. But back to business. Much like Sunday night's inflated Dancing with the Stars finale, this baby could have been wrapped up in about 20 minutes. But no, the show insisted on parading all the eliminated contestants and their partners back for a couple more rounds of free-skatin' fille
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Skating with Celebrities The final three fight to get into the finals. New technical requirement: a one-footed edge glide. Song choice was left up to the judges, and apparently they dug deep into VH1's greatest hits. The team that scores the highest goes directly to the finals. The other two teams participate in a skate-off. I hope it'll be as awesome as Derek and Hansel's walk-off in Zoolander.
Jillian and John: Song: Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life."Technically, these two skated as well as they do every week. Mark Lund said he was "semicharmed but not fully charmed." Boo! Sir CrankyPants started off all nice and sweet but then inexplicably (or not) made a quick U-turn back to CrankyLand, saying this team didn't have the one-armed lifts or the death spirals of the other teams, but they were mistake-free
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