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Dancing With the Stars: The Queen of the Damned

After doing a lackluster fox trot on Dancing With the Stars last week — and being judged the second to the worst couple during that show's dance marathon — talk show host Maria Menounos and her pro partner, Derek Hough, came back with a vengeance Monday night, taking a bite out of the paso doble and getting the first perfect score this season.

Tue, May 1, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: The Queen of the Damned

Dancing With the Stars: Gladys Knight Makes No Excuses

She may have been handed her walking papers, but bet on this: The producers of Dancing With the Stars won't let Gladys Knight go far. Win or lose, she owned Motown Week, at least according to her adoring fans. "I don't want her ...

Wed, Apr 25, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: Jaleel's Comeback

No one has had a rougher ride on Dancing With the Stars this season than Jaleel White. The 35-year-old actor, who has loads of natural ability, nevertheless seems to have been dancing under a dark cloud since Week 2. Early on, there was a verbal dust-up in rehearsals with his professional partner, Kym Johnson. And then, after landing in the bottom two last Tuesday night, a dance-for-your-life moment when he had to go up against singer Gavin DeGraw in the show's first Dance Duel to stay in the competition.

Tue, Apr 24, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: Gavin DeGraw's Secret Strategy

It's really too bad that singer/songwriter Gavin DeGraw, who knew his Dancing With the Stars days were numbered, didn't get to employ his secret and rather ingenious strategy to stay in the competition: Phone in the Monday night samba and spend the whole week working on the dance he knew was coming, the Tuesday night, fight-for-your-life cha cha. With the laid-back style that has become...

Wed, Apr 18, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: Gavin DeGraw's Secret Strategy

Dancing With the Stars: A New Duel To Keep the Dancers on Their Toes

After the last steps of samba, salsa and Argentine tango had been danced on Monday night's Dancing With the Stars, the remaining nine couples had to face the fact that no matter no matter how well they pulled off their steamy, fun routines, they might still face the scorching red lights of elimination on Tuesday night.

Tue, Apr 17, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: A New Duel To Keep the Dancers on Their Toes

Dancing With the Stars: The Other Walking Wounded

Melissa Gilbert, recovering from whiplash and a mild concussion, isn't the only one who should've been given the night off on Tuesday night's Dancing With the Stars. Extra host Maria Menounos could've used the time ...

Wed, Apr 11, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: The Other Walking Wounded

Dancing With the Stars: A Scary Moment for Melissa Gilbert

Just minutes after she danced an intense paso doble on Monday night's Dancing With the Stars, actress Melissa Gilbert was taken out of the ballroom on a stretcher. She was absent for the rest of the show.

Tue, Apr 10, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: A Scary Moment for Melissa Gilbert

Dancing With the Stars: A Pair of Unlikely Frontrunners

It doesn't seem to matter that the Season 14 cast of Dancing With the Stars is filled with celebs we've known and loved for decades: Gladys Knight, Melissa Gilbert, Jaleel White, Martina Navratilova and Jack Wagner, who was given his walking papers Tuesday night. The fact is that two relative unknowns — classical singer Katherine Jenkins and Latin actor William Levy — are obliterating everyone else in the ballroom with the both the quality of their dancing and sheer animal magnetism: You'd be hard-pressed to find two better looking people on the planet. 

Wed, Apr 4, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: A Pair of Unlikely Frontrunners

Dancing With the Stars: Tabloid Report "Totally Exaggerated," Says Jaleel White

It was clear that something had gone wrong this week for Jaleel White. On Monday night's episode of Dancing With the Stars, the Family Matters alum broke down on camera after dancing a gorgeous rumba with his pro partner, Kym Johnson, scoring 25 out of 30, and, in the words of the judges, showing great confidence and chemistry.But the two danced in the midst of a tabloid report that surfaced earlier in the day, citing an "insider" saying that White had blown up in rehearsals on Friday and had verbally attacked his partner, calling her "an idiot." The report then suggested ...

Tue, Apr 3, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: Tabloid Report "Totally Exaggerated," Says Jaleel White

Dancing With the Stars: "I Ran Into a Buzz Saw," Says Martina Navratilova

In the end, even her fabulous tennis footwork — and having the likes of Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors cheering her on — couldn't save her. Tennis legend Martina Navratilova had to endure the worst kind of Dancing With The Stars rejection: Being voted off first.

Wed, Mar 28, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: "I Ran Into a Buzz Saw," Says Martina Navratilova

Dancing With the Stars: The Highest Highs, The Lowest Lows

They both looked stunned: William Levy, the 31-year-old Latin heartthrob who is causing quite a commotion in the ballroom before he even starts dancing. And Martina Navratilova, the 55-year-old tennis legend who broke down in tears, twice, on the press line following Monday's episode of Dancing With the Stars, after getting the lowest score of the night for her awkward and out-of-sync jive.

Tue, Mar 27, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: The Highest Highs, The Lowest Lows

Dancing With the Stars: Surprisingly Tough Class

One after another, they came out on the dance floor, and either surprised or dazzled us. Judges, pros, hosts, audience members — okay, everyone — was stunned by the across-the-board display of raw talent on Dancing With the Stars' Season 14 premiere.

Tue, Mar 20, 2012

Dancing With the Stars: Surprisingly Tough Class

Dancing With the Stars Unveils Season 14 Cast

"I'm not going out there in a thong," says soap star Jack Wagner (The Bold and the Beautiful). "Anything else, I'm good to go." And so are 11 other stars, who will strap on their dancing shoes for the 14th season of ABC's Dancing With the Stars. Call it the Season of Nostalgia, with actors like Wagner, Melissa Gilbert (Little House on the Prairie) and Jaleel White (Urkel from Family Matters); the "Empress of Soul" Gladys Knight and tennis legend Martina Navratilova taking top billing.

Tue, Feb 28, 2012

Dancing With the Stars Unveils Season 14 Cast

J.R. Martinez Wasn't the Only Winner on Dancing With the Stars

What is newly crowned Dancing With the Stars champion J.R. Martinez going to do with his mirror ball trophy? "I'm gonna put mine in bed. I'm gonna tuck it in, and it's gonna roll around with me. And after that, I'm gonna glue it on the hood of my car and drive around Los Angeles honking my horn. It's gonna be my own parade."

Wed, Nov 23, 2011

J.R. Martinez Wasn't the Only Winner on Dancing With the Stars

Dancing With the Stars: Will Rob Win the Trophy?

Here's what happened to the Dancing With the Stars finalists on Monday night: Ricki Lake did her best not to screw up the lifts in her freestyle dance — "I was really afraid of falling down," she said.

Tue, Nov 22, 2011

Dancing With the Stars: Will Rob Win the Trophy?

Rob Kardashian on His Unlikely Journey to the Dancing With the Stars Finals

His mother made him do the show. He wanted to quit the first week. And for the first weeks of rehearsal, he couldn't even look his pro partner, Cheryl Burke, in the eye. Sources inside Dancing With the Stars say Rob Kardashian making it all the way to the finals has been nothing short of miraculous. He cops to not wanting to do the show at all, and being pushed by his mom, Kris Jenner, the master reality show puppeteer who pulls the family strings.

Wed, Nov 16, 2011

Rob Kardashian on His Unlikely Journey to the Dancing With the Stars Finals

Dancing With the Stars: J.R. Dances Through the Pain

"I was just completely off-key tonight," J.R. Martinez said as he limped off the ballroom floor during Monday night's semi-finals on Dancing With the Stars.

Tue, Nov 15, 2011

Dancing With the Stars: J.R. Dances Through the Pain

Nancy Grace Voted Off Dancing With the Stars

How tough is television commentator Nancy Grace? Just ask her how she has consistently managed to put a good face on things — including her elimination from Dancing With the Stars on Tuesday night. "You know what?" she says. "There is never a bad day. Nobody's dead. Nobody's dismembered. I've been dancing with Tristan [her pro partner, Tristan MacManus]. My children are alive. It's all good."

Wed, Nov 9, 2011

Nancy Grace Voted Off Dancing With the Stars

Dancing With the Stars: J.R. Is On Top Again

J.R. Martinez may now be impossible to beat. The actor and Iraqi war vet and his pro partner, Karina Smirnoff, had the Dancing With the Stars audience on their feet even before they finished their first dance Monday night.

Tue, Nov 8, 2011

Dancing With the Stars: J.R. Is On Top Again

Dancing With the Stars: Tom Bergeron Says Less Is More

It's still a Top 10 hit, but this season ABC's Dancing With the Stars is down nearly 14 percent from last fall, to an average of 18 million viewers.

Tue, Nov 8, 2011

Dancing With the Stars: Tom Bergeron Says Less Is More

Dancing With the Stars' David Arquette Gets Candid About Courteney Cox

Has David Arquette danced his way back into the heart of his estranged wife, Courteney Cox? "No," says Arquette, the latest dancer to be shown the door on Dancing With the Stars. Sitting in the audience and watching Arquette dance his heart out week after week, there were two things you couldn't miss: First was the joy on the face of his 7-year-old daughter, Coco, and second were the tears in the eyes of Cox, 47, who sat ringside. "I like that people hope for us," says Arquette, 40. "But it really is time to move on."

Wed, Nov 2, 2011

Dancing With the Stars' David Arquette Gets Candid About Courteney Cox

Dancing With the Stars: Maks Gets Scary on Halloween

The scariest moment on Monday night's Dancing With the Stars didn't come from the ghosts, goblins and ghoulish make-up...

Tue, Nov 1, 2011

Dancing With the Stars: Maks Gets Scary on Halloween