Gilles Marini and Cheryl Burke on DWTS
Gilles Marini is paired with Cheryl Burke on the 8th season of Dancing with the Stars. Giles is an interesting choice of star. Off the top of my head I can’t really think of another star that’s been on the show that’s of a similar stardom. This makes it hard for me to know how well he’ll do on the show. Certainly Sex and the City was HUGE, but I’m not sure if Gilles Marini was really that huge. Probably a few devoted female fans, but nothing like some of the other stars.
I’ll also knock Gilles down a little bit because he’s French. I don’t have anything personally against the French, but ever since we started naming French Fries Freedom Fries I knew the French would never be the same in the US.
Cheryl Burke has quite a few fans of her own. However, she won seasons 2 and 3 of DWTS before fans really knew much about the professional dancers on the show. I’m not sure exactly why Cheryl isn’t the incredible star that she could have been. A part of it could be some bad partners (she just looked awkward next to Maurice Green). Either way, she’ll bring more votes than say Jonathan Roberts, but is getting blown out by the Houghs, Karina and Edyta.
Cheryl’s choreography is still really nice and enjoyable to watch. However, I just don’t see Gilles doing anything that really makes anyone remember him the next day. This couple doesn’t have the water cooler quality to vault them to the top. I’m predicting middle of the pack at best. He’ll be out even earlier if Gilles turns out to dance like Jerry Springer.
What, do you live under a rock or something? Where have you been? Cheryl is and always will be one of the most popular pros on this show. Her fan base is HUGE. Same as the Houghs, Maksim, even Mark has a pretty big fan base now.
Blown out by Karina and Edyta– that’s a good one.
Hi TCB,
Glad you agree. This is my opinion. You are certainly welcome to have yours. Maybe me saying this will light a fire under the Cheryl fans and will get her more votes. I guess that’s a nice win for fans of Cheryl, no?
I’ve been thinking about trying to find a way to measure fan base. If you have any ideas I’d love to try and measure each of the pros fan bases.
Frankly?I don’t know where you get the idea that Karina and Edyta are bigger than Cheryl in terms of popularity.Have you been watching any news at all?Cheryl and Julianne are the most recognizable names on that show.Even bigger than the likes of Derek.Cheryl fans are not as out spoken as the other fans.
Cheryl just got voted in by the fans for Tv Guide’s sexiest pro this year.She just whipped all the other pros asses on that one.
A lot of Cheryl’s partners recently did not have the fan base as big as the other competitors.But because of Cheryl’s fan base alone, they always manage to stay longer than they expected.Her newly released Disco Abs a month ago just runned out of stock and we’re sold out in just a few weeks.Do not underestimate this girl’s fan base at all.You might be surprise how big of a following she gained over the course that she’s been doing the show.Unfortunately, with her success on the show and her personal life at the same time, it is inevitable that she hated as well as much as she is loved by a lot of people.Sadly, it is the price she pays for being one of the real star,famous and the best overall pro on the show.Undeniably, she is the best pro considering she got the best records on the show.That is the truth.
I can accept that I was wrong about Karina and Edyta. After some more research, Cheryl definitely has some very devoted fans, but like you said they don’t seem to be as vocal. Not quite the fanatics (some people might use the word insane) of some of the other fans. The hard core shippers are the ones that I really don’t understand completely, but that’s a subject for a different post.
I’ve corrected the post by marking out Karina and Edyta. I’ll still think the Hough’s are possibly more popular. Derek’s still rising, but Julianne’s definitely the tops without question.
I should make clear that I don’t hate Cheryl. I really like Cheryl. She does some really interesting choreography on the show.
The only reason Julianne might be more popular than Cheryl is, because she also got some cross over fans from her singing career.Don’t forget that she got another day job other than dancing.She also got the combo/pack going on in terms of fan bases with her brother and her best friend Mark.Julianne is also very much supported by Derek’s and mark’s fanatics, and vice versa.Some luxury that Cheryl don’t have.Now how can you go up against 3 solid fan bases combined?
But without a doubt, Cheryl is definitely the best if not, one of the best pro on the show in my opinion.Attractive, extremely talented and Charming.She is the complete package..The show was already a phenomenon even before the Houghs or the Ballases came into the picture.Mainly, Cheryl was one of the reason for it…Just too bad that she was not given enough credit for it.
“Now how can you go up against 3 solid fan bases combined?”
That’s really my point. She can’t. It’s not a knock on her. It’s just an observation of what’s happening and the challenge she faces in what amounts to a popularity contest in many ways.
I agree completely with you that Cheryl is Attractive, extremely talented and Charming. I just think other pros on DWTS are as well.
I will have to disagree with you on DWTS being a phenomenon before the Houghs and Ballases came into the picture. I think that Julianne and Apolo Anton Ohno were what took DWTS into the phenomenon category. Of course, they didn’t do it by themselves, but that season was just an awesome season.
Season 4 was awesome, agreed.
But Season 3 (plus Cheryl Burke, minus the Houghs and Ballases) managed to pull in a high of 28 million viewers. So it was already a phenomenon.
One could make the argument that the reason season 3 was so huge was because Mario Lopez with Karina and Joey with Edyta was a great storyline taking down Cheryl and finally giving someone else the mirror ball trophy.
Anyway, I’ll still go back to Cheryl being a fantastic dancer and deserves credit, but I think she’ll have a challenge this season with Gilles.
Well, let’s see about that..Gilles might surprise you anyway…
The top 2 highest rating seasons happened to be the ones when Cheryl have both won the trophy.Season 2 with Drew managed to salvage 27 million people to tune in for the Finale.With Emmitt, at one point, a record breaker of 30 million people.Save a horse ride a Cowboy routine started the pehenomenon for the show,just to let you know.Even the producers have acknowledged the fact that, that dance have turned it around for them.They even called Cheryl their “lucky charm”.Ever since she came on, it just went skyrocketed to the top.
The show only became sensationalized more when Julianne came in, just because of the controversies but not because of the ratings.In fact, the rating strted to drop constantly from there on, the season Apolo was on.Drastically, it went down to 22 million the most on season 4 from almost 30 million from Emmitt.
I also disagree that Eyta or Karina are the reasons why the prior seasons before the Houghs are the reasons for it’s success.Edyta was on before Cheryl and just didn’t do anything special for them.Karina is actually the most hated pro ever on the show, mainly for her stinky attitudes according to a lot of surveys.I just don’t understand why you keep insisting that Karina has to be up there in popularity. Maks is popular (her fiancee), but definitely not her.They just didn’t bring a whole lot to the table in my opinion as much as Cheryl did on her first few seasons.But that’s solely my own opinion.Peace out!
But i have to agree that they all lokk fabulous and beautiful.I just thought that Cheryl’s charisma is what sets her apart from karina and Edyta.Cheryl is just a better partner overall to have in my opinion.
Frenchmen rock…Viva la France!