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Glee's Amber Riley Fights Through the Pain to Win Dancing With the Stars

Even her battered knees couldn't stop her from waltzing away with the trophy. Amber Riley and her pro partner, Derek Hough, beat out Corbin Bleu and Karina Smirnoff to win Season 17 of Dancing With the Stars Tuesday night. "I definitely feel beaten down right now," Riley says with a laugh. The Glee star, 27, who has been plagued with knee injuries all season, is looking forward to giving her whole body a rest — probably in Hawaii. "I've always wanted to go there," she says.

Wed, Nov 27, 2013

Glee's Amber Riley Fights Through the Pain to Win Dancing With the Stars

Dancing With the Stars: Bruno Tonioli Raves About Guest Judge Cher

"She was so down-to-earth," says judge Bruno Tonioli moments after Dancing With the Stars' Monday show, still savoring his time sitting next to guest judge Cher. "She's adorable. She just says what she thinks and she doesn't care what anybody thinks. I loved her."

Tue, Nov 5, 2013

Dancing With the Stars: Bruno Tonioli Raves About Guest Judge Cher

Dancing With the Stars: Valerie Harper's Last Dance

"My knees are killing me," moans Valerie Harper, lifting her gold lamé gown and showing off two knees wrapped in heavy bandages. It's moments after her elimination on Monday night's Dancing With The Stars and Harper is cheerfully working the press line, flashing the smile that belies the crushing diagnosis she was given in January: That her lung cancer, which she thought she had beaten, had spread to the membranes surrounding her brain and that she had three to six months to live. "I feel very happy that I was here for four dances with Tristan [MacManus]," she says.

Tue, Oct 8, 2013

Dancing With the Stars: Valerie Harper's Last Dance

Dancing With the Stars: Leah Remini Talks About Her Scientology Split

In a very public and painful split, actress Leah Remini left the Church of Scientology last summer. Now, as a contestant on Dancing With the Stars, the King of Queens star says that the church is "waiting for me to fail." "It's not insinuated, it's told to you," Remini said, moments after Monday night's show. "The church is looking for me to fail so they can say to their parishioners, 'You see what happens when you leave the church?' They want you to believe that you're not going to do well — in life."

Tue, Sep 24, 2013

Dancing With the Stars: Leah Remini Talks About Her Scientology Split

Dancing With the Stars: Valerie Harper's Courageous Battle

It seemed as if the whole room was holding its collective breath as Valerie Harper took to the dance floor on Dancing With The Stars Monday night. Would the beloved star of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a 74-year-old who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, get through 68 seconds of non-stop fox trot?

Tue, Sep 17, 2013

Dancing With the Stars: Valerie Harper's Courageous Battle

Dancing With the Stars Winner Kellie Pickler: "I Was Shocked to Have Made It This Far"

The shock was real: Country star Kellie Pickler couldn't believe it when Tom Bergeron called her name as the new champion of Dancing With The Stars. "I'm overwhelmed with joy," said Pickler...

Wed, May 22, 2013

Dancing With the Stars Winner Kellie Pickler: "I Was Shocked to Have Made It This Far"

Len Loses It on Dancing With the Stars

The only thing more explosive than Kellie Pickler's paso doble with pros Derek Hough and Tristan MacManus on Dancing With the Stars Monday night was the ballroom reaction to the score it received from head judge Len Goodman: A measly 7. "Just ridiculous!," cried judge Bruno Tonioli who, along with judge Carrie Ann Inaba, gave the dance a perfect 10.

Tue, May 7, 2013

Dancing With the Stars: Lisa Vanderpump Faints, Performs Anyway

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Lisa Vanderpump, who is fighting what ABC reps are calling a "viral infection," and fainted earlier in the week during rehearsals, was this close to eliminating herself from Dancing With The Stars on Monday night. "She wasn't feeling well enough to do dress rehearsal," said one ABC rep, "and only decided that she would dance 15 minutes before she went on." Vanderpump, whose husband and daughter were in the audience, was immediately whisked away after the show, "to go home to bed and chicken soup."

Tue, Apr 9, 2013

Dancing With the Stars: Lisa Vanderpump Faints, Performs Anyway

Dancing With the Stars: Will Dorothy Hamill Quit the Competition?

She behaved like an Olympic champion and toughed it out, but Dorothy Hamill was in rough shape for Monday night's Dancing With The Stars. Even with all the adrenaline that goes along with performing live, it was obvious that she was having difficulty walking, let alone dancing.

Tue, Mar 26, 2013

Dancing With the Stars: Will Dorothy Hamill Quit the Competition?

Dancing With the Stars' New Moves in Season 16

How do you shake up a show going into its 16th season? By giving it contemporary flair.  For the season premiere of Dancing With the Stars, three of the 12 new celebrity hoofers — gold medal figure skater Dorothy Hamill, General Hospital's Ingo Rademacher, and the Disney Channel's Zendaya — were assigned the contemporary genre for their first dance, instead of the usual cha cha, waltz or fox trot.

Tue, Mar 19, 2013

Dancing With the Stars' New Moves in Season 16

Meet Dancing With the Stars' New Cast

Will it be two times the fun on the 16th season of ABC's Dancing With the Stars, which begins March 18? Producers are trying to make up for the lackluster ratings of last season's All Stars by spiking the cast (announced Feb. 26 on Good Morning America) with a double dose of Olympians, country stars and comedians. The big names include ice-skating legend Dorothy Hamill, 56; singer Wynonna Judd, 48; and...

Tue, Feb 26, 2013

Dancing With the Stars: Co-Stars Rally Around Brooke Burke-Charvet After Cancer Diagnosis

Dancing With the Star: All Stars host Brooke Burke-Charvet entered the ballroom Monday night on Tom Bergeron's arm, then walked over to Carrie Ann Inaba, who was seated at the judges' table. As the studio audience clapped, the two exchanged a prolonged, wordless hug. But after that, you would never have known that Burke-Charvet, 41, had revealed in a blog post last week that she has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and is facing life-saving surgery. There's no word yet on when and where the surgery will take place, but ABC confirms that she will continue to co-host the show through the finale, which airs the last week of November. Says one rep, "She'll probably release more videos, in her own time, to explain what's going on." Backstage, the dancers said Burke-Charvet's diagnosis put their own struggles with injuries and the relentless demands of the show in perspective.

Tue, Nov 13, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: Co-Stars Rally Around Brooke Burke-Charvet After Cancer Diagnosis

Dancing With the Stars: Melissa Rycroft Takes the Floor After a Neck Injury

On Monday night, Melissa Rycroft mounted the stairs to the skybox after all the couples were introduced for the opening segment of Dancing With the Stars: All Stars. "How are you feeling?" she was asked by someone in the crowd. Rycroft shrugged, making the best of a bad situation. "I'm here."

Tue, Oct 23, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: Melissa Rycroft Takes the Floor After a Neck Injury

Dancing With the Stars: A Broken Toe and Emotional Night for Kelly Monaco

She has a broken second toe on her right foot. And her left ankle is swollen to twice its size. But General Hospital star Kelly Monaco wasn't going to let anything stand in the way of performing a contemporary routine on Dancing With The Stars: All-Stars with her pro partner, Val Chmerkovskiy.

Tue, Oct 16, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: A Broken Toe and Emotional Night for Kelly Monaco

Dancing With the Stars: The All-Stars Are Back — And More Nervous Than Ever

They're not newcomers — the 13 Dancing With The Stars: All-Stars contestants have been to this rodeo before. You wouldn't expect them to be all that nervous, but on Monday's season premiere, they were. So nervous that Joey Fatone says he panicked a little when he found out that he and partner Kym Johnson would be dancing first. "It was so nerve-wracking," says Fatone. "When you're first out of the gate, there's a level of expectation. And you hope that you meet that expectation, but literally, today, I was thinking, 'What did I get myself into again?'"

Tue, Sep 25, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: The All-Stars Are Back — And More Nervous Than Ever

A Week in the Life of the So You Think You Can Dancers

Yes, they can dance, but will they be able to stand up at the end? With its relentless weekly schedule, signing up for So You Think You Can Dance "is like getting shot out of a cannon," says Season 2 runner-up-turned-choreographer Travis Wall. Here's a day-by-day glimpse into what it takes to become America's Favorite Dancer.

Wed, Sep 5, 2012

A Week in the Life of the So You Think You Can Dancers

Dancing With the Stars' Donald Driver Wins the Mirror Ball Trophy!

William Levy's 6-year-old son, Christopher, was inconsolable. The minute Dancing With the Stars ended, Levy made his way through the throng of dancers, stars and judges congratulating the new champ, football star Donald Driver, to get to his son. Levy picked him up, rubbing his back and talking to him quietly, trying to explain that daddy was not a loser, but rather, "that we were all winners," says Levy.

Wed, May 23, 2012

Dancing With the Stars' Donald Driver Wins the Mirror Ball Trophy!

Dancing With the Stars: Donald Driver Scores!

There is only one thing that everyone wants when they're watching a Dancing With the Stars freestyle: Great big goosebumps. And on Monday night, the only star who goosed everybody in the ballroom was the Green Bay Packers' Donald Driver.

Tue, May 22, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: Donald Driver Scores!

Dancing With the Stars Backstage Report: A Winner By Default?

It's the best four semi-finalists we've ever seen. Graceful, powerful, athletic — and, except for one, broken. The level of competition this season on Dancing With The Stars is so high that the winner may be whoever still has two good working legs next week.

Tue, May 15, 2012

Dancing With the Stars Backstage Report: A Winner By Default?

Dancing With the Stars: Is An All-Stars Edition Coming?

Extra host Mario Lopez may have let the cat out of the bag last month on Live! With Kelly, but now Dancing With the Stars insiders are quietly buzzing about plans afoot to make next fall's show, Season 15, into Dancing With the Stars: All Stars.

Wed, May 9, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: Is An All-Stars Edition Coming?

Dancing With the Stars: Wardrobe Malfunction!

Only 20 seconds into her cha cha, Katherine Jenkins faced what could have been a dangerous wardrobe malfunction when a pant leg that was supposed to be pulled off and discarded ended up twisted around her foot and ankle.

Tue, May 8, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: Wardrobe Malfunction!

Dancing With the Stars: The Skin Game

We have never seen this much skin. This season, Dancing With the Stars is as much a battle of the delts and pecs as it is a rumble for the best heels and toes on the ballroom floor.Sometimes going topless, or nearly topless, works. Sometimes it doesn't. It didn't help former ...

Wed, May 2, 2012