DWTS Season 12 – Rumors, Hopes, and I Wish
As we enter the rumor season of the year, I want to remind everyone of the real breakdown of what we see on the net. Not everything is actually a rumor. And interestingly enough, today we have examples of all three possible situations when it comes to the potential cast of next season’s DWTS. π
Category 1 – The Actual Rumor
Today, as EVERYONE has heard by now, the rumor is Lindsay Lohan. Prior to today, it fell more in the category of heresay, but now we have Radar Online saying it’s nearly a done deal. Just a website? Maybe, but like me (pats self on back) they have actually gotten it right at times. It’s officially a rumor:
This could be the ultimate comeback.
Lindsay Lohan is secretly in talks to be a contestant on the hit show Dancing With the Stars, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.
After what seemed like endless legal woes that landed her in jail and now rehab, Lindsay is negotiating for the chance to change her image by appearing one ABCβs mega hit.βLindsay has been talking with the DWTS people,β a source close to the actress exclusively told RadarOnline.com. βShe is definitely interested and considering being on the show.β
Of course, Gossip Cop says it ain’t so and quotes her Rep:
Gossip Cop looked into the matter again to see whether anything had cha-cha-changed.
We can bust the rumor once and for all.
βLindsay Lohan is not doing Dancing with the Stars,β her rep exclusively tells Gossip Cop. βThe story is false.β
Category 2 – Hope (aka “Please Put me on DWTS”)
Many, MANY people label this as “rumor”, perhaps in an attempt to get traffic to their site? But someone telling everyone who will listen that they want to be on the show does not qualify as a rumor someone is going to be on the show in except very rare cases (Kate Gosselin being one, who I reported as wanting it and eventually ended up thinking she was going to get it, thanks to Jay Leno. π ). Today, in the Category of “Hope,” we have Ne Ne Leakes talking to People.com:
Will NeNe Leakes be the first of Bravo’s Real Housewives to be tapped for ABC’s Dancing with the Stars?
The Atlanta Housewife, who’s been getting a taste of reality competition while filming The Celebrity Apprentice, which is expected to air in March, says she’d be thrilled to get the call from the Dancing producers.
“Absolutely. They need a black girl like me. They really do,” Leakes, 42, said on TBS’s Lopez Tonight. “They need a black girl like me to keep it real on the show.”
Category 3 – I WISH
This doesn’t fall in either of the previous two categories. It’s not being rumored extensively to the point that you think where there’s smoke there might be fire, but it’s also not a celeb expressing their desires. It’s someone on twitter or elsewhere asking their favorite celeb if they’re going to be on DWTS, but doing it in a way that it makes me do a bit of research to see if there is any possibility or if someone is just throwing stuff at a wall to see what sticks. π I call it “I wish” because this is usually what it’s all about. Someone is wishing upon a star. Today, our “wish” candidate is one that I wish were true or it even had a remote possibility of being true – Kristen Chenowith. This came up as a random tweet TO Kristen last night (which is why I’m actually posting it) – of course I can’t find the tweet again, but last night I checked and she never responded to it. It could be because she’s currently starring in “Promises Promises” on Broadway. I also think she’s too big for DWTS, in addition to being a little busy. Β Oh! Found the Tweet.
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Oh crap, just checked the Official Site for Promises Promises and it’s closing in January. I’m getting my hopes up. I hate when that happens. π
Oh wow, this is getting so interesting, isn’t it? I’m starting to think the Lindsay Lohan rumors are true. If this is a go, this will be the perfect opportunity for he to redeam herself. To keep up with the work and schedule it would take to do the show, it would take a strong person….and a person is free from drugs. I think she’s a good actress. I loved her in Georgia Rule. She reminds me often of a young Jane Fonda. But, if she did the show, who can you see being her partner? I want to say Tony. But, oh boy, would he have his hands full in a Kate Gosselin kind of way again.
He=HER
I have always liked Lindsay also…I think her parents are the problem…anyway with the structure and discipline that would be required during rehearsal and the program would be good for her rehab.
I don’t see Kristen doing the show and the uproar over “ringer” would be deafening..
I would love to see Lindsay Lohan do the show! She is a great actress but a lot of people forget that since she was kind of a trainwreck before this latest rehab stint. I’m glad to see she is ready for a comeback and has another chance to prove her talent. Besides, she probably can dnace too. As for the Nene Leakes, that would be quite interesting. She is doing the next version of celeb aprentice (which also air in the spring) though so i don’t know if this might happen. If it does, it will be a Nene TV takeover lol. As for the Kristen rumor, I hope its true. She would rock it but the “ringer” status cuase a lot of uproar.
I was think last night about her pro partner if this is true. I think DAMIAN would be a great match looks wise.
Oh Heidi you made my day as I would love if the Kristen rumor was true. She is awesome. Not sure if she would consider DWTS. I do know she will be in LA sometime this Spring as she is suppose to be making another appearance on Glee.
I have to agree with you Vogue in regards to Lindsay, I think the rumor is true. However, it probably is not finalized as to why her agents saying its false since it could fall apart. I think Lindsay would be great and it would give her a chance to redeem herself. I am just wondering if it is too soon considering all she went though this year and how the audience would respond to her since she would be consider a ringer.
*sigh* NeNe, NeNe, Nene…anyone else here tune in to Real Housewives of Atlanta besides me? Seems like Nene’s got her hands in just about every cookie jar these days – she’s got a show on a local Atlanta TV station, she’s been a correspondent for E!, she’s doing Celebrity Apprentice, and now she’s gunning for DWTS? I can’t decide if I’m for or against this one. I have a feeling she’d be like another Niecy – outspoken and entertaining, but maybe less funny and more uncooperative. They’d have to give her a fairly tall pro, since she’s about 5’10” – maybe Tony or (fingers crossed) Jonathan? There’s been rumors floating around about more than one “housewife” doing the show for a season or two now (anyone know if Teresa Giudice is still holding out hope for getting on the show?), but I think NeNe probably has the best chance of actually getting it – I think she’d probably pull the most viewers, since she’s one of the more infamous housewives. Hmmm…maybe we’ll hear more as we near the new season.
Speaking of the new season…has ABC confirmed the start date of season 12? Seems a little fishy to me that they usually announce the start date of the new season during the finale of the previous one – they didn’t this time. Granted, they could just be hammering out details of the spring TV schedule, but still…a little odd to me.
Courtney, are you sure you aren’t thinking of another show? I don’t think DWTS has ever announced the new season start date during the finale. We usually do a post on it when we find out.
Kristin as a ringer? I dunno – has she actually *danced* or is she a Broadway star known for singing? I don’t think Broadway automatically equals “dancer” but some in DWTS audience are stupid enough to think so. π I know Kristin from Wicked, and from that short lived TV show that I loved but can’t remember the name of now and Glee – woman can SING, but can she actually dance? She is extremely tiny, so she’d probably be with Louis or Mark. A lot of the “dancing” that Broadway leads do anyway can barely be called dancing, at least in anything I’ve seen recently. More like running around the stage while singing. π We’re not talking Burn the Floor or Chorus Line here.
BTW, Kristin isn’t officially a rumor – she’s a bit of wishful thinking on someone’s part for now. π
As for Lindsay – I hope it’s true, in a way. She was an awesome actress, which is why what went down with her is such a shame. I don’t think they’ll give her to Maks, if true, I think she needs a caretaker type. Mark may be too short. Perhaps Tony. Derek might be too tough for her, but in a different way from Maks. Damian might be good too. Although, Derek can certainly handle the emotional types. Who knows?
NeNe is filming Celebrity Apprentice *now*, so the next season wouldn’t be a problem, if they were to ask her – I just doubt they are going to ask her when she’ll actually be airing on a different network at the same time. And when The Donald has dissed DWTS in the past. π
Lisa, why would Lindsay be considered a ringer? Has she danced before professionally or in a movie? I think it would be great for her too.I think Maks would drive her over the edge. I actually think Louis would be good for her, but he might be too short.
Lindsay would be good with either Damien, Derek, Tony, Dymetry, in worst case senario Alec (since its probabale that Corky may not be back next season since they only seem to get him when they have an older female celeb like cloris or florence).
@Meggie: she was in confessions of a teenage drama queen and she did some choreogrpahy in that. (But it wasn’t like anything DWTS would give her though…..so basically its a Jeniffer Grey kinda case since she did a movie with some choreogrpahy a while ago as well as made a cd with a couple of music videos and hasn’t done any since then……only compasrison i can really think of).
On a side note, the fact that Kristen’s show on broadway ends in Jnauary and she is going to California to film a cameo for Glee (FINALLY….the show hasn’t really been the same since her last cameo. Don’t get me wrong its still good but not so much plot-driven) this could be probable.
On a side note, I read that Portia De Rossi turned down a spot for season 12 so that one rumor down lol.
I bet Ellen de Generes would be awesome on DWTS. I know Portia turned them down…but maybe Ellen would consider
Although I don’t think I have ever seen Ellen in a dress and heels…so maybe not.
Hi Meggie, I thought of Lindsay as a ringer because of her status of being pretty well known and having a musicality/music background. I know she has not danced professionally so she would be learning ballroom from scratch, but I think she would pick up choreography and dance really well. I agree with you that Louis would be a good partner for her, but wondered as well if he would be too short for her. Damian is a good possibility for her.
I can see Lindsay Lohan with Tony. He’s very patient but being paired up with Kate Gosselin last year, producers may not want him to be with some emotionally unstable.
I’d love to see Kristin Chenowith! She has a great personality.
I think Lindsay would be interesting to watch on the show. She’s so young and has had so much negative stuff happen to her, that it would be great to see her talent again on display. I think she needs a pro who is a strong disciplinarian, yet will be sensitive to her. Googled her height and she is 5’5″. I would say Tony, Maks, or Derek.
Wasn’t there something a while back about Troy Aikman saying he would do DWTS “next year”? There was a Season 11 rumor about him which didn’t make sense to me – that would interfere with his football broadcasting schedule. But Season 12, starting in March (after football) would seem to be doable… since we’ve seen Emmit Smith and Michael Ervin, why not Troy?
I hope the Lindsey Rumors Are Not True… I don’t really like her! If they are she better NOT be with Derek or Mark! If she dose Maks would be a great partner for her!
Call me Crazy but I want Demi Lovato to be on next season! I just love her and think it would help her so much! (& Put Demi with either Derek or Mark)
At first I wasn’t happy to hear the Lindsay Lohan rumors, but now that I think about it, I think it might be a good idea. She really showed a lot of promise as an actress before everything went wrong in her life. She’s still young though, so she has time to turn it around. I haven’t been keeping up with what’s been going on with her too much, but it does sound like she’s been doing well lately. I agree with everyone who said she’d be good with Damian. I think they’d look good together, and he’s a pretty nice, laid back guy. Plus I just want to see him back on the show.
Sally, if I remember correctly the Troy aikmen thing ended up being a joke on his part. He was kinda being an ass.
Kelsey, I feel like you. At first, I wasn’t liking the thought of Lindsay dancing. But, now I think it would be cool to see her do it and show herself and the world she’s serious about kicking her drug habit and giving it all she’s got. If she can take herself seriously, the world will too.
I think Lindsay really should focus on her trying to get clean. Forget DWTS. If she was clean and sober then maybe she should do it. But shes not so I think she should relax.
I think Kristen would be an awesome addition. I have seen interviews with her and she seems to have an awesome personality. Idk who they would pair her with, but I think she could work well with anyone.
And as far as Nene… I sure hope not. I think she would try and be this super diva on the show (like she is on her show). And her partner would have to be pretty tall. I dont think she would be a good fit.
I would love it if Bethenny Frankel was on the show. I think her personality would really work well. I think she’d be good.
And I wasnt even thinking about this but what about Monica?? Now that she lives in LA and is engaged to Shannon Brown on the Lakers, she is there all the time. She went to see BRandy the week she left. I think Monica would be pretty good as well.
I hope the producers take advantage of the “Skating with the stars” and get bethanny or Rebecca. Bethanny is not doing too great on ice but she probably could do better on the dancefloor. As for Rebecca, I just think she is pretty great on “swts” and she could kill it on dwts
Yes Bethanny Frankel would be great at DWTS! She’d have a blast but I’m not sure how well she’d take criticism from Carrie Ann, Len, or Bruno.
Lindsay’s people have actually tried to market her as a dancer in the past, but if you’ve seen any of her musical videos you’ll see she’s awful. No way is she a ringer based on her dancing abilities. Might be nice to see her with Louis.
We’re never gonna see the result of that 3rd caption contest, are we? It’s a little out of date, but I thought it was fun.
Yea what ever happend to the caption contests anyway? π
I agree! I loved them too!! π
The caption contest basically died because we got ridiculously busy with other stuff to do – both stuff for the site and our regular adult jobs π I’ll see what I can do about bringing it back…but I can tell you right now it won’t be till January, unless someone else wants to take over it. I am absolutely SWAMPED with end-of-year stuff at work. π
While I agree that Bethenny or Rebecca from Skating with the Stars would be a great addition to the next cast of DWTS, I just don’t see the producers pulling anyone who’s already done SWTS. SWTS is being billed as a “spin-off” of DWTS; I think the whole purpose of scheduling SWTS immediately after the end of DWTS was to pull the same demographic of viewers for the new show – and I think that the demographic in question would be on Bethenny Frankel & Rebecca Budig overload if they got tapped for DWTS. At least I would – I guess I would kinda look at it like “I’ve already seen these celebs on one artsy competition reality show. Why do I need to see them do it again? And is DWTS really that hard-pressed for contestants that they have to borrow from another show?” Come to think of it, I don’t think TPTB make a habit of pulling celebs that have recently done another competition-style reality show – with the exception of Joanna Krupa, who had just done that celebrity competition Superstars when she signed on to do DWTS, I can’t think of anyone else that had done another reality show around the same time they did DWTS. Feel free to correct me; I don’t feel like doing any deep research right now, hehe π But yah, I wouldn’t hold your breath for Bethenny or Rebecca on DWTS anytime soon…I just don’t see it happening.
I could handle Kristin Chenowith each week. Very nice. I actually think Lindsay Lohan would be great on DWTS. I’d enjoy her too.
I see your point Courtney and I thought the same thing. However, not that many watch SWTS. I think its getting like 6 million people. Which compared to DWTS 20 million is not a lot. Plus SWTS doesn’t get much coverage on any of the entertainment shows. In fact I have seen nothing about it. So I think people will pretty much forget who was on SWTS ( if they havent already).
BTW, Dont both shows have the same producers?
Another person I’d like to see do the show is Sarah Ferguson.
@Greg – Despite the terrible ratings its getting, I still don’t see DWTS casting from those on SWTS. If the latter is getting terrible ratings with the celebs it has on right now, why would the DWTS casting directors even want to go fishing in that pond for potential cast members? When the bottom line is ratings, I just don’t see them going after celebs that clearly aren’t pulling in viewers. And while a lot of people seem to assume (falsely) that no one in their right mind would turn down a chance at DWTS, I’m not so sure that Bethenny or Rebecca would want to jump right into ANOTHER reality competition show just after completing one. Maybe a few seasons down the road they might be in the right mindset – but I sincerely doubt they’d do it a few months from now.
Kristin Chenilworth (Piano Man remake, holiday specials)
Rita Morena or Chita Rivera (Anita, West Side Story)
Mariska Hargitay (Law and Order SVU)
Scott (Happy Days)
Cindy Williams (Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley)
Bill Murry (Stripes, Caddy Shack, SNL)
Tina Fey (SNL)
Charro (Comedienne, singer)
Florence from Florence and the Machine (Singer)
Sally Field (actress)
Oxsanna Baiul (Olympic Gold Medalist skater)
Bill Murrey…now that would be a fun one. Charro too. I’d love to see Sally Field and Oxanna as well!!