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Dancing Tour: Lovebirds Sabrina and Mark Light Up the Ballroom Again

She may not have won the Dancing with the Stars disco-ball trophy, but Sabrina Bryan won something equally important: instant name recognition (not to mention a new love). In the most shocking elimination in the show's five-season history, Disney Channel's Cheetah Girl, an early favorite, was sent packing in Week 6, little more than halfway through the competition. "I know there was a lot more I could have pulled out of her if we had stayed in," says her pro partner and now boyfriend, Mark Ballas. "So I'm definitely going to be pulling out all the stops on the tour." Well, almost all the stops. Ballas is still recovering from a dislocated left shoulder and has to carefully dance around it. Still, this happy twosome can't wait to partner up again and show off

Thu, Jan 3, 2008

Dancing Tour: Lovebirds Sabrina and Mark Light Up the Ballroom Again

Dancing Tour: A Perennial Pro and Mr. Las Vegas Join Up on the Road

This will be the third national tour for one of Dancing with the Stars' most popular pros, Cheryl Burke. Even before the fifth season ended at the end of November, the two-time champ started tour rehearsals and then packed up to hit the road again — without a single day off. There was just one fly in the ointment: A health scare the night before the tour's big opening night in Seattle on December 18th. After cramping on stage during final run-throughs, Burke was rushed to a Seattle emergency room and diagnosed with possible appendicitis. Thankfully, it wasn't. And after getting cleared by her family doctor, Burke is back on tour and in winning form. To be accurate, maybe the tour should be called "SoftScrub Presents Dancing — and Singing — with the Stars." Because Las Vegas legend

Mon, Dec 31, 2007

Dancing Tour: A Perennial Pro and Mr. Las Vegas Join Up on the Road

Dancing Tour: New Partners, Newlyweds and Tough Workouts

As the Dancing with the Stars tour continues, TVGuide.com caught up with Monique Coleman and Alec Mazo to hear details about what's happening on the road. Coleman, who's also known for her High School Musical role, says she can't wait to start ballroom dancing again. Ask her if those teeny costumes still fit, and she panics a little: "I sure as heck hope so!" For Mazo, this will be his third national Dancing tour. This time out will be different in two big ways: First, he'll be partnering with actress Monique Coleman, and he's thrilled about it, he says, "because I've never had a celebrity partner on the road." Second, he'll be traveling as a newlywed. Mazo and fellow Dancing pro Edyta Sliwinska got married last fall, just before the beginning of the s

Thu, Dec 27, 2007

Dancing Tour: New Partners, Newlyweds and Tough Workouts

On Tour with Dancing with the Stars: Marie Osmond and Jonathan Roberts

Dancing with the Stars isn't missing a step. With the ABC hit's fifth season barely a memory, many of your favorite celebs and pro partners — from the most recent cycle as well as previous ones — are taking their fancy footwork on the road. SoftScrub Presents Dancing with the Stars kicked off Dec. 18 at the Key Arena in Seattle, Washington, and winds down Feb. 10, 2008, in Philadelphia. TVGuide.com will have updates and features every sizzling step of the way, starting with partners Marie Osmond and Jonathan Roberts. Marie Osmond, who's toured her whole life, knows the secret to staying happy and healthy on the road. She grabs what her mother used to call "the busy box" and what Marie calls her "entertainment center." In the box? Her computer, iPod, and books, along with knitting, crocheting, or needlepoint. "Whatever project I'm working on," she explains.Not that she'll have much free time. When she was asked to join the Dancing tour, Osmond's fir

Thu, Dec 20, 2007

On Tour with Dancing with the Stars: Marie Osmond and Jonathan Roberts

On Tour with the Dancing Stars: Cheryl Burke Bows Out!

The show may be over, but the drama isn't. As a nearly sold-out crowd of 6,000 settled into Seattle's Key Arena Tuesday night for the opening of the Dancing with the Stars national tour, the announcer made a statement no one wanted to hear: Due to illness, Cheryl Burke would not be dancing. As loud groans filled the auditorium, you had to wonder what fresh disaster had befallen the show and one of its most popular pros.    "Last night, during the run-through, I was cramping and in pain," Burke tells TV Guide exclusively. "I couldn't even stand up straight." Burke, who was rushed to the hospital, was told that it is a possible case of appendicitis. She will fly home to San Francisco on Wednesday for a second opinion from her family doctors. "I hope it doesn't require surgery," she says. If it does, Burke will be off the two-month tour for an undetermined period of time. "It's a disaster," says pro Louis van Amstel, who is choreographing the tour and has ha

Wed, Dec 19, 2007

On Tour with the Dancing Stars: Cheryl Burke Bows Out!

Helio (Finally) Celebrates Dancing Win! Plus, His Take on the Romance Rumors

What do you do when you've missed the big cast party because ABC puts you on the red eye from Los Angeles to New York (to appear on Good Morning America) on the night you've won Dancing with the Stars? If you're two-time Indy 500 champ Helio Castroneves, you fly back into town and throw your own little Hollywood soiree (with the help of Brazilian rum-maker Leblon) at the swank Sunset Tower Hotel for about 100 friends from the cast and crew, including Sabrina Bryan, Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin. "I've been traveling so much that I want to make sure I enjoy [the victory]," says Castroneves, who was in Las Vegas yesterday for Floyd Mayweather's fight and has made numerous media appearances in the last 10 days in New York and Orlando. Castroneves' pro partner, two-time Dancing champ Julianne Hough, was on hand as well, looking gorgeous in a black-and-white cocktail dress. But she was also strangely pale after spending a week on vacation in Hawaii. "It

Mon, Dec 10, 2007

Helio (Finally) Celebrates Dancing Win! Plus, His Take on the Romance Rumors

Dancing Update: "Amazing" Girlfriend Bryan Helps Ballas Prepare for Tour

Dancing with the Stars pro Mark Ballas, 21, is on the mend after undergoing arthroscopic surgery Wednesday afternoon on his left shoulder. The popular pro, who teamed with Cheetah Girl Sabrina Bryan, dislocated his shoulder doing the cha-cha during the Dancing finale on Nov. 27, tearing a shoulder muscle in the process.  According to his father, ballroom great Corky Ballas, the minimally invasive surgery "went really well," and at some point Mark should be able to join the Dancing national tour that kicks off Dec. 18 in Seattle. That's good news for Ballas, who, before this, has never suffered a serious dance injury. And it's great news for Bryan, who is his real-life girlfriend and was facing two months on the road without him. 

Thu, Dec 6, 2007

Dancing Update: "Amazing" Girlfriend Bryan Helps Ballas Prepare for Tour

Dancing's Maks May Return After All

Women aren't the only ones who have the prerogative to change their minds. Dancing with the Stars pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy, who told TV Guide that he would not be returning for Season 6 (starting in March), has had a change of heart. He wants to be asked to return to the show.  His comments, he says, were a result of the fatigue after a very long season and the strain of being away from home (Maks lives and works in Edgewater, New Jersey) for the six months that it took to do two seasons of the show during 2007. "Being away from home for so long was taking its toll," says Maks. "I'm one of those people who get very homesick and needs to recharge the batteries. I've missed all the Hanukkah parties and all the dinners. I haven't seen my family in four months." But after seeing his words in print, he realized th

Wed, Dec 5, 2007

Why Dancing's Maks Won't Be Back

This may break a million hearts, but Dancing with the Stars pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy says he won't be returning for Season 6 in March. "The 25 million viewers are going to remember me whether I'm there or not," says Chmerkovskiy, who hopes to return to professional ballroom competition and is busy over the holidays choreographing a New Year's Eve show at the Wynn Las Vegas. Chmerkovskiy, 27, says he's had a great time over the past four seasons teaching celebrities like Spice Girl Mel B. and boxing champ Laila Ali how to dance. But he's impatient to become a student again himself. "Other dancers on this show have aspirations to become actors and singers and they lose focus of where they came from," says Maks. "The second you close that door and stop educating yourse

Tue, Dec 4, 2007

Helio and Julianne Join the Dancing Tour!

Dancing with the Stars champs Helio Castroneves and Julianne Hough will be taking their act on the road. The Season 5 winners will be joining the 37-city Dancing national tour "for about a week's worth of dates," says Hough, who is vacationing in Hawaii. The tour, which also features Marie Osmond, Sabrina Bryan, Wayne Newton, Drew Lachey, Joey Lawrence and Monique Coleman, steps into high gear on Dec. 18 in Seattle. "Helio saw that everybody wanted to do the tour and didn't want to be left out," says Hough. She didn't want to be left out, either, but her schedule didn't allow for two months of traveling. "I had a blast doing the last tour and if we could pop in there and do a few dates, that would be great." While still unsure of the specific cities

Mon, Dec 3, 2007

Helio and Julianne Join the Dancing Tour!

Dancing with the Stars Aftermath: What Really Happened to Mark at the Finale

It's a dislocated left shoulder for Dancing with the Stars pro Mark Ballas, who suffered the injury during the show's finale last night  while doing the cha-cha with his celebrity partner — and real-life love interest — Sabrina Bryan. According to his father, ballroom great Corky Ballas, Mark went in for an MRI Wednesday afternoon to determine whether surgery is needed to repair the damage. "If you watch the tape," says Ballas, "you can actually see Mark grab his left shoulder during the dance. He actually danced that whole number with a dislocated shoulder. It happened right after he turned her under his left arm." Following his performance, the young dance star was rushed by ambulance to the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai

Thu, Nov 29, 2007

Dancing with the Stars Aftermath: What Really Happened to Mark at the Finale

Backstage at Dancing with the Stars' Emotional Finale

The finale was everything Monday night wasn't: Supercharged and electrifying, the dancers returned to dazzling form. And the fatigue, illness and injuries were forgotten. Well, almost forgotten. Pro dancer Mark Ballas, who wowed the crowd again doing his show-stopping cha-cha-cha with the much-missed Cheetah Girl Sabrina Bryan, was whisked off to the hospital immediately after their performance. He had been in some distress for two days with a sore shoulder. "Something kind of funky was happening," says Bryan, who was anxious to join Ballas at the hospital after the show. "But he's a true competitor. And even though we weren't competing tonight, he wanted to have our last performance. He was not going to let anyone know." But Jane Seymour knew. "He shouldn't have been dancing," she said after the show. "He's hurt himself." Mark Cuban knew, too. "His father told me that he's got a torn muscle in his shoulder, and it's really, really painful," says Cuban. "It happens to basket

Wed, Nov 28, 2007

Backstage at Dancing with the Stars' Emotional Finale

Dancing with the Stars Backstage Report: A Frustrating Finale

It was the Dancing with the Stars night we've all been waiting for, but everything was just a little off kilter. The hallways were packed with VIPs: friends, family and stars like All My Children's Cameron Mathison, exiled weeks before he was ready to go home. "I think it's going to be Helio," says Mathison. "I've been a fan of his forever." But like any great marathon, you could feel the strain, see the warning flags. "Julianne [Hough] has strep throat," says her mom, Marriann Nelson, outside the soundstage. "She's been feeling awful all week, but she's still dancing." Is she feeling well enough to perform tumbles and lifts for the freestyle? Her mom nods her head yes. "She just keeps going. One time, for a [ballroom] championship, she danced with shingles." Inside, Mathison was tucked away in the audience with Jane Seymour, her husband, director James Keach, and Seymour's pro partner, Tony Dovo

Tue, Nov 27, 2007

Dancing with the Stars Backstage Report: A Frustrating Finale

Jennie Garth's Dancing with the Stars Partner: You Can't Stop Juggernaut Marie!

Jennie Garth's husband, actor Peter Facinelli, wasn't sure if Dancing with the Stars' cameras were still running. His wife had just been eliminated on Tuesday night and was crying, caught up in a group hug with the other semifinalists and pros in the middle of the dance floor. "I was waiting for the cameras to stop," says Facinelli. "But then I said, ‘Aw, screw it,' and I ran out there. Because I knew she needed me." The cameras had, in fact, gone to black. So what you didn't see was that Facinelli broke through the circle of love, grabbed his wife and gave her the longest, most beautiful kiss. "I forgot that anybody was out there," he says, just moments later. "It was like nobody was there except the two of us." "He's my baby," says Garth. Did she know he was going to engage in such a public display of affection? "No, but I kn

Wed, Nov 21, 2007

Jennie Garth's Dancing with the Stars Partner: You Can't Stop Juggernaut Marie!

Dancing with the Stars Backstage Report: The 10s Pour In

One of the greatest singers in the world says she wants to dance. On the show. As a contestant. Céline Dion, backstage at Dancing with the Stars Monday night, had just pretaped two songs for the show's finale next week. One of them will be her signature ballad, "My Heart Will Go On," from Titanic. "I hope they invite me again," says Dion. "I want to dance. For me, it's not about a contest. It's about having the privilege to share the dancing floor with the most amazing, talented people, and to share music. It's not about winning. It's about dancing as many times as possible." Who is she dreaming about as a possible partner? Maks? Tony? Jonathan? "I want all of them," she says slyly. Dion says she's not kidding. Six of the show's professionals danced in front of her as she sang — including Tony

Tue, Nov 20, 2007

Dancing with the Stars Backstage Report: The 10s Pour In

Dancing with the Stars Backstage Report: Cameron Says Goodbye

Joey Fatone was hanging out in the backstage parking lot after last night's Dancing with the Stars. It's the place where all the dressing-room trailers are lined up. "It's going to be Mel B. or Helio [Castroneves]," he says, making his prediction about which two of the remaining four dancers would be in the finals. "At least that's what I'm hearing." Fatone, last season's runner-up, was visiting old friends, including his former pro partner, Kym Johnson. Pros and celebs were milling about, changing into street clothes and getting ready to call it a night. "It's a great show this year," says Fatone. And its greatness comes fro

Wed, Nov 14, 2007

Dancing with the Stars Backstage Report: Cameron Says Goodbye

Dancing with the Stars Backstage Report: Marie's Struggle

Her smile is famous the world over. And no one is quicker to laugh. But on Monday night, Marie Osmond's physical and emotional exhaustion after Dancing with the Stars finally got the better of her. The judges' tough comments seemed to take the last bit of fight out of her. "I'm whipped," she says quietly after the show. Nevertheless, after the show Osmond and her pro partner, Jonathan Roberts, headed to a rehearsal studio to begin work on next week's two new dances. It seemed impossible — foolhardy even — for her to keep practicing after a week spent burying her father and flying to Chicago with the Osmond family to make good on their promise to appear on Oprah. Bu

Tue, Nov 13, 2007

Dancing with the Stars Backstage Report: Marie's Struggle

DWTS' Mark Ballas Will "Avenge" Sabrina's Exit with One Last Dance

How's this for a knight in shining armor? Dancing with the Stars pro Mark Ballas can't wait to come back to the show to "avenge" partner Sabrina Bryan's shocking elimination two weeks ago. "She was voted off too early," Ballas, who is now romantically involved with Bryan, tells TVGuide.com. "She's great, she's lovely, and she was by far the best dancer. No one can take that away from her. So I want to come back to avenge her."    In each of the past four seasons, all of the couples have been asked back to do a short turn on the dance floor during the finale, normally not more than about 10 seconds. But according to Ballas (although not yet confirmed by ABC), "What I'm hearing is that they want us to do a whole dance, whether it be paso doble or cha-cha." That would be a Dancing first, and a highly charged moment for both the dancers and the audience. The danger, of course, is that emotional fireworks over Sabrina and Mark might overshadow the even

Sun, Nov 11, 2007

DWTS' Mark Ballas Will "Avenge" Sabrina's Exit with One Last Dance

Dancing Star Helio on Long-distance Love: "This Has Been a Big Test"

"This has been a big test." Seven weeks into Dancing with the Stars, Brazilian race-car driver Helio Castroneves, 32, isn't talking about mastering the quickstep and the jive. He's taking stock of what this rocket ship to stardom has done to his personal life. The two-time Indy 500 champ has been engaged since last Thanksgiving to Ali Vazquez, who lives in Miami and works in jewelry design. Castroneves and Vazquez were supposed to get married this year but put off the nuptials when they found out that Castroneves would be involved in the show, possibly for months. It's been more than two months now, and the two haven't seen much of each other since the end of August, when Castroneves relocated to Los Angeles to begin rehearsals. And Castroneves says his fiancée has been feeling his absence. "It's been very hard," he say

Thu, Nov 8, 2007

Dancing Star Helio on Long-distance Love: "This Has Been a Big Test"

Osmond and Seymour Credit Dancing Through the Pain

You couldn't make this stuff up. Week after week, bombshells explode on the Dancing with the Stars ballroom floor: Jane Seymour's mother dies. Marie Osmond collapses. Jennifer Lopez's grandmother passes. Gloria Estefan's mother becomes critically ill. Seymour ends up in the emergency room with suspected food poisoning. And now, Osmond's father dies.  Last week, executive producer Conrad Green thought the worst was over when Jane recovered from her trip to the hospital. "It's been a turbulent season, but I think we're at the end of it now." Not quite. The headlines just keep coming."I got a call very early this morn

Wed, Nov 7, 2007

Osmond and Seymour Credit Dancing Through the Pain

Backstage at Dancing with the Stars: The X-Factor

Cheryl Burke, two-time Dancing with the Stars champ, has some advice for any star who wants to take on this dance marathon: "Give up your day job!" Her point is well taken, given the exhaustion level in evidence on Monday night. All the couples seemed frayed around the edges — making mistakes, out of sync, and dancing with their partners with frozen smiles that barely covered the panic. "In dress rehearsals, I just blanked," says Mel B., who somehow continues to wow the judges in spite of a rehearsal schedule that would put anyone else in the hospital. Scary Spice — who has a newborn child at home — is running full tilt in preparation for the Spice Girls' world reunion tour, which kicks off Dec. 2, just days after the Dancing finale. She

Tue, Nov 6, 2007

Exclusive! Dancing with the Stars Romance Revealed: "I Absolutely Love and Adore Him!"

They've been dancing around the speculation for weeks, but now, still reeling from the most shocking cut in the show's five-season history, "Cheetah Girl" Sabrina Bryan admits that she and her Dancing with the Stars pro partner, Mark Ballas, are dating. "We're going out tomorrow," says Bryan, referring to Sunday the 4th. "He's taking me out for a surprise this weekend and he won't tell me what it is. He's joking that it's our first date because we've always hung out, millions of times, millions of dinners. But this is different." In an exclusive interview, TV Guide spoke to Bryan on Saturday night, the first full day she was back in Orange County after a blizzard of media appearances in Los Angeles and New York. "People were so angry," says Bryan, who was both touched and surprised by the strong reaction to her ouster on Tuesday night. There is word on the Internet that there may be protest signs in the audience on Monday night. "For the producers and the talent to come up to

Sun, Nov 4, 2007

Exclusive! Dancing with the Stars Romance Revealed: "I Absolutely Love and Adore Him!"