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Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: Is Jennifer Grey in Trouble?

The Dancing With the Stars surprises are suddenly adding up: Bristol Palin survives, yet again. Audrina Patridge is eliminated and the contestant judge Carrie Ann Inaba dubbed "the chosen one," Jennifer Grey, has to go back to basics before she implodes. "I think after what happened Monday night I might take a little bit different approach, choreography-wise," says Grey's pro partner, Derek Hough, looking humbled after hearing the judges describing Grey's dancing as out of control and telling her to "calm down." Is he going to simplify the routines?

Wed, Oct 27, 2010

Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: Is Jennifer Grey in Trouble?

Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: Bristol Bounces Back

Dancing With the Stars belonged to Brandy on October 25 — the singer left her competition in the dust with her dramatic tango and non-stop, booty-shaking energy during the dance marathon. But what everyone in the audience was talking about was the surprisingly strong showing by Bristol Palin, who managed to rack up 23 points for her graceful tango before coming in second-to-last for the marathon...

Tue, Oct 26, 2010

Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: Bristol Bounces Back

Carrie Ann Inaba Opens Up About Dancing With the Stars

She was stunned by the early ouster of David Hasselhoff, taken with the pigeon-toed charm of Mike "the Situation" Sorrentino and blown away by the sensuality of Jennifer Grey. But more than anything ...

Mon, Oct 25, 2010

Carrie Ann Inaba Opens Up About Dancing With the Stars

Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: Flo Goes, While Bristol Stays Alive

When Florence Henderson's name was announced as the one to go home from Dancing With the Stars on Tuesday night, nobody was more surprised than Bristol Palin. She was convinced that her time on the dance floor was over. In fact, the Alaskan native said she was ready to go after Monday's show, when she and Mark Ballas donned a monkey outfit, messed up many of the steps to the jive, and landed at the bottom of the leader board for TV Theme Night...

Wed, Oct 20, 2010

Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: Flo Goes, While Bristol Stays Alive

Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: Name That Tune?

If you thought that dancing to iconic TV theme songs on Monday night's Dancing With the Stars would give the performers a leg up because they already knew the music, you'd be wrong. In fact, most the Dancing pros — and at least one star — were either too young or living in a foreign country when American television hits such as Bewitched and Hill Street Blues were on the air. "I had no idea what that song was," says pro Cheryl Burke, who was born in 1984 and danced to Hill Street Blues, which aired from 1981-1987...

Tue, Oct 19, 2010

Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: Name That Tune?

Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: The Situation's Rough Week

It's been a really rough week — a double whammy — for Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, the fourth star to be shown the door on Dancing With The Stars. Sorrentino stormed off the set Monday night after the judges called his Argentine Tango "a terrible mess," upset because they didn't appreciate the dangerous lifts he pulled off with his pro partner, Karina Smirnoff. But he was equally upset that his other hit show, MTV's Jersey Shore, featured him in an extremely unflattering light, slapping his cast mate, Snooki, after he asked her to leave a club, and she refused...

Wed, Oct 13, 2010

Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: The Situation's Rough Week

Backstage at Dancing with the Stars: Carson Kressley Is Jennifer Grey's Biggest Fan

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy's Carson Kressley was backstage at Dancing with the Stars Monday night, acting ...

Tue, Oct 12, 2010

Backstage at Dancing with the Stars: Carson Kressley Is Jennifer Grey's Biggest Fan

Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: The Return of Michael Bolton

Here's what happens when you get to do what you're good at: You own the ballroom. And that's exactly what happened when Michael Bolton stepped up to the microphone to sing the stirring "Hallelujah" in his signature raspy, wounded-soul voice. He may have been booted out by Dancing With the Stars voters last week who didn't care for his dancing, but the crowd on hand Tuesday night to see comedian Margaret Cho get the axe was enthralled by the return of Bolton, who probably would've scored three perfect 10s for his pipes. "I want to buy that record," said one woman sitting next to me, who was never a Bolton fan.

Wed, Oct 6, 2010

Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: The Return of Michael Bolton

Backstage at Dancing with the Stars: No Drama?

One of the biggest surprises on Dancing with the Stars this season has been its relative lack of fireworks. It isn't about the stars behaving badly, which we were expecting with Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, the charismatic Jersey Shore star. It isn't about romantic hanky-panky or animosity between the celebs and their pro ...

Tue, Oct 5, 2010

Backstage at Dancing with the Stars: No Drama?

Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: Pros React to Bruno's Harsh Comments

This was not your typical Dancing With the Stars elimination. The stars and their pro partners were unusually upset by the ouster of crooner Michael Bolton — and even more upset by judge Bruno Tonioli's devastating comments on Bolton's performance the night before, including ...

Wed, Sep 29, 2010

Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: Pros React to Bruno's Harsh Comments

Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: Jennifer Grey Finds Dancing Joy Again

Jennifer Grey, who out-performed the other contestants on Dancing With the Stars for the second week in a row, says she has finally overcome her Dirty Dancing problem. "I said I wanted to ...

Tue, Sep 28, 2010

Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: Jennifer Grey Finds Dancing Joy Again

Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: Hoff, We Hardly Knew Ya

"Were you surprised?" asks host Tom Bergeron moments after the show. "I was really surprised. I thought he'd go at least three or four weeks." The "he" in question is David Hasselhoff, the first star bounced from the new season of Dancing With the Stars. But Hasselhoff knew

Wed, Sep 22, 2010

Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: Hoff, We Hardly Knew Ya

Backstage at Opening Night of Dancing With the Stars

"I'm about to vomit," said Barbara Chase, moments before the curtain rose on Season 11 of Dancing With The Stars. Chase, suffering from nervous tension, is the proud daughter of "America's Mom," Brady Bunch veteran Florence Henderson, who at 76 is the show's star senior citizen. "She's always stayed in shape," said Chase, "but this is so hard." Is it like going from zero to 60 in terms of her physical stamina? "No, not zero. More like 35 to 60. But still..."

Tue, Sep 21, 2010

Backstage at Opening Night of Dancing With the Stars

How Dancing with the Stars Landed Bristol Palin

This season's cast of ABC's Dancing With the Stars is a mix of the kind of contestants viewers have come to expect: the singer (Brandy); the football player (quarterback Kurt Warner); and the tabloid magnet (Jersey Shore's Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino). But one name came from left — or is it right? — field: single mom Bristol Palin, 19, daughter of Republican lightning rod Sarah Palin.

Tue, Sep 7, 2010

How Dancing with the Stars Landed Bristol Palin

Dancing With the Stars Season 11 Cast Revealed!

Dirty, funny, controversial and wildly surprising. Those are the five words that best sum up the twelve celebrities set to shake a tail feather on the new season of Dancing With the Stars.   Want more Dancing With the Stars news? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! In the wildly surprising category, how about...

Tue, Aug 31, 2010

Dancing With the Stars Season 11 Cast Revealed!

Behind the Scenes at the So You Think You Can Dance Finale

Moments before they were called on stage for the announcement of the big winner, the last two So You Think You Can Dance contestants, Lauren Froderman and Kent Boyd, gave each other reasons why the other would win. Says Froderman, "I told him that he would win because he came from someplace so small [Wapakoneta, Ohio] and he's accomplished so much." And what did the Ohio country boy say to the Phoenix cheerleader? "He told me I would win because I worked my butt off."In the end...

Fri, Aug 13, 2010

Behind the Scenes at the So You Think You Can Dance Finale

How Dancing with the Stars' Marlee Matlin Dances Without Music

In her quiet rehearsal studio, Marlee Matlin rolls her hips, moving to a sort of internal metronome. "My husband is the one who told me I needed to do this show," says Matlin, unstrapping her ballroom heels to relieve her aching feet. "He thought it was a great opportunity for people to see my lighter side." That lighter side, full of sass and wit, has been overshadowed by a fierce determination to overcome the odds. At 21, Matlin stunned Hollywood by winning an Oscar for her powerful performance in Children of a Lesser God. She was the fabulous newcomer but had barely finished her acceptance speech when the ugly whispers started: It was a sympathy vote because she's deaf. She'd never work aga

Mon, Mar 24, 2008

How Dancing with the Stars' Marlee Matlin Dances Without Music

On Tour with Dancing with the Stars: Helio and Julianne Reunite

"Wow," says Helio Castroneves, getting his first look inside Indianapolis' massive Conseco Fieldhouse. The auditorium is home court to the Indiana Pacers and the place where Dancing with the Stars' Season 5 champ will return to the dance floor — for the first time in almost two months — in a matter of hours. It's the morning of Jan. 18, and the cavernous auditorium is a beehive of activity. The stage, T-shaped and almost as long as a basketball court, has a dance floor that reaches deep into an audience estimated at roughly 8,000. The production crew is doing its almost nightly magic act of setting up a complete theater: Workers scurry this way and that, unloading enormous crates that house everything from the bandstand to the dance floor itself. Castroneves, who hasn't strapped on his Latin heels since th

Mon, Jan 28, 2008

On Tour with Dancing with the Stars: Helio and Julianne Reunite

Dancing with the Stars Tour: Sabrina and Mark's Love Story Continues

No one wanted to keep dancing more than Sabrina Bryan. The Cheetah Girls star, who's been a shot of pure adrenaline on the Dancing with the Stars national tour, flies to India on Friday, Jan. 25, to shoot her third Disney TV-movie. But as much as she welcomes the reunion with her Cheetah Girls posse, she doesn't want to go. "I'm dying," says Bryan, watching her professional dance partner and real-life leading man, Mark Ballas, rehearse in Indianapolis with another pro. "There have been so many ups and downs of me leaving. I've gone through the sob-fest twice already." Bryan's last performance on the Dancing tour was on Sunday, Jan. 13, in Kansas City. But she chose not to take the first plane home to prepare for her overseas adven

Thu, Jan 24, 2008

Dancing with the Stars Tour: Sabrina and Mark's Love Story Continues

Dancing with the Stars Tour: Derek Hough's "Embarrassing" Moment

He may not have celebrity partner Jennie Garth with him on the road, but Dancing with the Stars pro Derek Hough is a standout all by himself. Blessed with dazzling good looks and blinding speed, some girls in the audience actually scream when his moves take him to the edge of the dance floor. Derek, who is Julianne's older brother, has been paired with a variety of partners, including pro Cheryl Burke and the Cheetah Girls' Sabrina Bryan (while her partner, Mark Ballas, sits out some numbers, still recovering from a dislocated shoulder). TVGuide.com spoke to Hough about life in the ballroom-dance world's fast lane. TVGuide.com: You've done this before — you did the 2006 Dancing with the Stars winter tour. Derek Hough: Right. But this tour is a lot different from the last one. When I did the last tour, it was

Thu, Jan 17, 2008

Dancing with the Stars Tour: Derek Hough's "Embarrassing" Moment

Dancing Tour: Behind the Scenes with Louis van Amstel

Think of the Soft Scrub Presents: Dancing with the Stars national tour as a chessboard with different pieces in play every night. That's the challenge for choreographer and pro dancer Louis van Amstel, who has to deal with an all-new show and a rotating lineup of celebrities and pros over the course of the two-month tour. But Van Amstel says he's not about to hold back. TVGuide.com: Is the tour going to be different this season?Louis van Amstel: It's going to be completely different. We're not using one piece of music from the prior tours. And we're building something I've been wanting to build for years: dancing with poles. It's not based on striptease. It's more based on skillful dancing with fun and wit between the poles. That will be a big treat. I want to jump on those poles! TVGuide.com

Wed, Jan 9, 2008

Dancing Tour: Behind the Scenes with Louis van Amstel

Dancing Tour: Joey and Edyta on the Road Again

For actor Joey Lawrence, heading out for his third Dancing with the Stars national tour means getting to see the country in a whole new light. "I had never really traveled by road," says Lawrence. "I always flew. So it was really neat to see America like that." His pro partner, Edyta Sliwinska, must like the road as well. Sliwinska, a native of Poland, is the only Dancing pro to have competed all five seasons — and now she's off on her third national tour as well. For her, the Dancing never stops. First, let's check in with Joey Lawrence.... TVGuide.com: Why did you sign up to tour again?Joey Lawrence: Because they treat us great. They give us a beautiful ride [to] travel across the country. The bus is just incre

Mon, Jan 7, 2008

Dancing Tour: Joey and Edyta on the Road Again