UPDATE: ABC has announced the official Dancing with the Stars Season 8 Cast.  Also, check out my suggested couples for Dancing with the Stars 2009.

UPDATE 2: You can watch the video announcing the Dancing with the Stars Season 8 Winner.

ABC has announced that Dancing with the Stars will premiere Monday March 9th 2009 at 8pm. Of course, this begs the question “who will be the next stars to show their dance moves?”

The cast probably won’t be announced for a couple months. Dancing with the Stars hasn’t even decided which professional dancers will be on the show. At least, Julianne Hough is still negotiating whether she should appear in the Spring or wait until next Fall. However, it’s fun to create our own list of stars dancing on season 8 of Dancing with the Stars.

Here’s my list of stars:
WOMEN
Celine Dion
Ellen Degeneres
Alicia Silverstone
Heather Locklear
Candace Cameron Burre
Steffi Graf

MEN
Jimmy Kimmel
Tom Selleck
Jackie Chan
Charles Barkley
Bret Favre
Bill Cosby

Let’s see who your list of stars would be. The crazy thing was that as I started this list I thought of literally hundreds of people that would be interesting on the show. Doesn’t seem like the show will have a hard time finding stars for a while.

As I mentioned in a previous post, my wife and I got the tremendous opportunity to be able to go to the Dancing with the Stars finale. It was quite the experience. Here are a few pictures from the event.

I’ll post some more pictures tomorrow and hopefully get around to posting some other comments about the taping of the Dancing with the Stars finale as well. Also, I’ll be posting some of the other pictures we took to the Pure Hough blog.

I know that I’m a little late, but I needed to complete my list of Dancing with the Stars music. So, here’s the list of music that the final 3 performed to on Dancing with the Stars final performance show.

Brooke & Derek danced a Quickstep to the song “Lover, Come Back to Me”—Barbra Streisand

Brooke & Derek danced a Paso Doble to the song “Palladio, first movement”—Karl Jenkins

Lance & Lacey danced a Tango to the song “Disturbia”—Rihanna

– Music Video
Lance & Lacey danced a Mambo to the song “Straight To Number One”—Touch and Go

Warren & Kym danced a Viennese Waltz to the song “Lovin’ U”—Alicia Keys

Warren & Kym danced a Paso Doble to the song “Malagueña”—Brian Setzer Orchestra

Brooke & Derek, Lance & Lacey, Warren & Kym danced a Samba to the song “Blame It On the Boogie”—The Jackson 5

Brooke & Derek danced a Freestyle to the song “You’re the One That I Want”—John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John

Lance & Lacey danced a Freestyle to the song “It’s Tricky”—Run-D.M.C.

Warren & Kym danced a Freestyle to the song “Proud Mary”—Ike & Tina Turner

Warren & Kym danced a Hustle to the song “Funky Town”—Lipps Inc.

Lance & Lacey danced a Jitterbug to the song “Jim Dandy”—Black Oak Arkansas

Brooke & Derek danced a Viennese Waltz to the song “Daughters”—John Mayer

– Music Video

On the Finale, the following songs were sung by guest performers:
Alicia Keys sang “I Need You”

Miley Cyrus sang “Fly on the Wall”

Don’t forget to purchase your Dancing with the Stars 2008 Tour tickets.