DWTS12 Week 9 Search Engine Round-Up
It’s that time of the week, kids – time to see what burning questions are leading you guys here for answers 🙂 Let’s see what kind of light I can shed here…oh, and just in case you missed it the past 2 weeks: Hines is STILL not married 😉
What did Bruno say to Karina?/What did Bruno call Karina?
It was bleeped out during the telecast (5:41 mark), and a friend of ours who happened to be in the studio audience that night could not hear what exactly was said over the crowd booing – so this is my best guess, given the context. I think it was something along the lines of “You were too rough with your p*ssy!”, and it was directed more at Ralph, meaning he lead Karina (who was wearing a leopard-print bodysuit) too hard or was just out-of-control with his partnering…hence, Bruno backpedaling after the fact and saying “I mean pussycat!” (of which, I’m sure you know, there are none on the show – but how awesome would it be if there was? How bout replacing Carrie Ann with a cute little kitten and letting him judge? :-)). Anywho…I think Karina thought it was more directed at her…and a certain part of her anatomy, which is why she (rightfully, IMO) got offended. Bottom line: whether Bruno really did mean pussycat (psssh, riiiight) or not, it was a poor choice of words with an ambiguous context – otherwise, the Muppets up in the sound booth wouldn’t have bleeped it out. And here’s a tidbit of probably-worthless-but-still-kinda-interesting trivia – this isn’t the first time Bruno has dropped the p-word when critiquing one of Karina’s routines. He got bleeped for saying something about consuming it in reference to Mario & Karina’s rumba in season 6 – and I don’t think he was talking about Chinese food. 🙂 No wonder Karina’s touchy about that word…
Did Mark Ballas get married?
I think I can state with 99.9% certainty that the answer is no. Why? Because I doubt he would be able to shut up about it if he had. The .1% uncertainty is just in case he’s keeping this ace in his back pocket for publicity at a later date. Moving right along…
Did Kym Johnson have plastic surgery?
Personally, I doubt it, but short of Kym acknowledging it or denying it in an interview, I can’t confirm one way or another. Maybe Liz can help with this one. I know there was some debate in the comments a previous post about her maybe having a brow lift, but looking at the picture in question from last season and comparing it to pictures of her now, it looks like she may have just had a very overzealous brow waxing back then, or maybe some Botox (which has now worn off) to perk things up a bit. Not that I think she needs it, because she looks FABULOUS 🙂 However, if she did, no biggie – she wouldn’t have been the only DWTS pro to go under the knife. Karina has publicly acknowledged getting a rhinoplasty and has expressed great satisfaction with the results.
Tayla
Definitely cool to see so many people interested in Tayla Kelley – the young girl that performed with Lacey & Chelsie on the results show this week. Tayla suffers from primary immunodeficiency, which is a genetic disorder that prevents her immune system from functioning properly. Simple infections that a person with a normal immune system can easily fight off can be deadly for someone with Tayla’s condition – which makes me think it’s all the more amazing & admirable that she is able to handle the rigors of being a dedicated dancer. As much as I may hate “filler” on the results show – I definitely don’t mind hearing stories of triumph like Tayla’s 🙂
Kym Johnson injury video
Ugh. *stomach churning* I’m gonna give you guys the benefit of the doubt and assume that the reason you’re searching this is because you just don’t know how Kym got injured…because seriously, this video is hard to watch – at least for me, as I’ve had a family member who became a quadriplegic after falling & hitting his neck at home. But alas, here you go – don’t say I didn’t warn you that it was rather graphic. If nothing else, I guess it serves as a warning to anyone on the show that they should NOT be trying this stuff at home…or anywhere else.
DWTS Season 13 casting rumors
Glad to know you guys are chomping at the bit just as much as we are to get this wretched season over with and move onto a better one 🙂 Generally, the casting rumors for the fall season are pretty intermittent & vague until mid-July (about a month before the cast annoucement) and then they come pouring in like crazy the week before it. As of right now, I have only heard 2 names, and both sound like they’re pretty unlikely – Regis Philbin & Donnie Wahlberg. Last week Vogue reported that he announced on Live with Regis & Kelly that he’d been asked to be on season 13. He seems like a big fan of the show (and is a huge Derek fanboy :-D), but he’s allegedly not leaving Regis & Kelly until November & he’s had quite a few health problems in the past few years – I just don’t see it happening. At least not next season. As for Donnie, the campaign for him being on the show cropped up after his pretty impressive dance with Peta on the week 5 results show. Someone started a petition (which rarely works when trying to get the attention of the casting directors – sorry kids), and both Donnie & Peta have publicly said that they’d LOVE to dance together next season. However, two (ok, more like 3) big hurdles to overcome: Donnie is tied up with Blue Bloods, which just got picked up for a 2nd season, and films on-location in NY. It’s also on CBS, and to my knowledge, they’ve never asked a someone from a current primetime show on a rival network to be on DWTS. I doubt that’s going to change anytime soon. But hey, stay tuned – there are sure to be plenty more rumors to come in the next few months…just search “DWTS13 Casting Rumors” and any that we find are bound to pop up.
Travis Wall boyfriend
Errr…not sure why some of you are looking for this info here, considering Travis has had a much bigger presence on SYTYCD than on DWTS…but it keeps cropping up, so I’ll entertain the notion anyway. From what I can tell, he’s never publicly said he’s gay, but I do remember there being some pictures posted on his MySpace page a few years ago (they’ve since been taken down) that caused quite a bit of speculation, so my official opinion on the matter is that he’s most likely gay. As for the identity of his boyfriend – well, if he’s not really, officially out, I doubt he’s going to be introducing any guys as his significant other. However, a quick sweep of some SYTYCD forums (which one should ALWAYS take with a grain of salt) seems to indicate that Travis had a boyfriend named Anthony back when he was a contestant on SYTYCD in season 2 (summer of ’06) that somehow stabbed him in back by posting pictures of the two of them online with the caption “me & my bf travis wall”. Ouch – I think being forced out of the closet against your will is just plain cruel. But alas, Travis managed to channel the hurt into something pretty cool – it was allegedly the inspiration for his contemporary routine on SYTYCD for Kent & Neil last season, which had a “backstabbing” theme to it. Dunno if that’s a satisfactory answer, but I think it’s a pretty interesting story 🙂 And in the future, kids – you might wanna direct SYTYCD-related questions to PureSYTYCD or @puresytycd on Twitter 😉 </plug>
LOL Courtney! I love these posts so much! I didn’t realize who Tayla was before. Thanks for the info!
Love the part on DWTS Cast 13. Stay tuned All. Like Courtney said, we’ll have some new rumor posts coming up soon. I still think Lee Meriwether and Jodi Sweetin are strong contenders. I still have suspicions about Faye Dunaway as well.
Voguerista:
Just for your info, Jennifer Grey will be in the audience Monday and I think Tuesday as well.
You and I both know If Derek was dancing on the finale he would be bringing the house down as usual!
Hope we get some footage of him dancing in the movie he’s making, before its released!
Hey just read this and saw my name! 🙂 I haven’t heard anything at all about any “eye brow lifting”. Not sure why people think Kym’s eye brows look different. I looked at both photos you got up and the only difference I can see are the colors because of the make-up. She’s not wearing that much make-up with Hines at the basketball game but she is in the premier of season 11. That’s all I can figure. Other than that, I haven’t heard or read anything at all.
I read as much as possible about Kym to keep my website for her updated, corrected and to help clear rumors. In the website (click my name ;)), I try to keep the information as accurate as possible and put up links if there were any conflicting information or something people weren’t sure about. I also try to keep the rumors out until Kym confirms it. Otherwise, until I get a confirmation, it’s just a rumor. I put in whatever information I can get and if I get the wrong information then I change it and update her background. I’ve had to do that several times now. The only confirmation that’s good enough for me is if Kym actually said it in an interview (like in quotes, videos or audios).
So as for now, I haven’t seen anything. I also know Kym likes to keep her private life just that. Private. No drama. So as for the eye brows, she either didn’t have anything done to them or she decided not to talk about it. Looking at the photos and seeing her on the show and everywhere else, I don’t think she had anything done to them. It might’ve been the make-up. Sorry I couldn’t help more!
Nice roundup, Court!! I really enjoy this addition to the regular posts. 🙂
I have to say, the pure joy on Tayla’s face as she danced with Chelsie and Lacey was SO heart-warming and inspiring. What a terrific little girl!!
I’m pretty much addicted to the infotainment shows, ET, Access, TMZ et al and I can say that they played the hell out of that clip of Kym’s accident and every time I have to turn my head away. It’s gut-churning. I mean, do we really need to see it 4 times in a row, 3 of them in slow motion? *shudder*
Thanks again for the roundup!! It’s fun!!
As far as Kym’s appearance is concerned I’m seeing that her lips got bigger during the years and I would say that’s about the only difference. Just yesterday I watched her and Joey on YT and was surprised at how similar to Julianne she looked. While we’re on the subject I’m seeing bigger lips on Julianne too in recent years. And I have to say I think both ladies look loads better without the duck look.
Thanks Courtney! Love the engine round-up! it’s informative and funny at the same time! (Your response to Mark getting married!)
I am willing to bet that Kym has some botox going on on the lower part of her face for sure and probably the brows. From certain angles it’s very noticable. And so what really? 🙂
@Meggie
I also feel like she did/does something with or around her mouth for sure and I think it’s a shame because on her older photos and videos you can see she has this unique and fresh quirkiness which is very subdued right now. I know her face also matured over the years but I have this feeling she would look a lot better without the “help”.
But as long as she’s happy with herself I don’t really care.
None of those are new rumors – I think I’ve posted on all of them. 🙂
Staying with the theme of rumors, I was just wondering about this, but when Tom asked Karina what she and Ralph were planning to do for the Freestyle, she said they were going to do something from movie, “The Band Wagon”. I wonder if that was a dig at Bruno (who loved Hines and Kym’s nod to Band Wagon in their Foxtrot) and her belief that Hines’ is the judges favorite. ANyway, it probably wasn’t but I thought it was funny that they were planning to do that for their freestyle… I have a feeling they just made that up on the fly.
Darn it, my evil plan to search ‘is Derek gay’ didn’t work. 🙂
In case you haven’t bought a sense of humor ….. I WAS JOKING
P.S. This is the best series after ‘Who wore it best’
Why do people always make a big deal out of botox and plastic surgeries or even pay that much attention to their specific body parts? Does that make them a bad person? If the person wants to have a botox or plastic surgeries then, I say let them! It’s none of anyone else’s business and it’s not for us to decide whether Kym or Julianne or anyone gets something done. The more people always talk about plastic surgeries and botox, the more I begin to think that people don’t care about the celebrities inside. They only care about how they look and if a plastic surgery goes bad, then people start to hate them.
All of our pros are great, including Kym and Julianne. They both got workout DVDs, Julianne got a country and acting career, Kym has promoted the DWTS hair extensions and the Lemonade Weight Loss Diet (which might explain to some people why she’s always looking so skinny because she does use that diet), did broadway in NYC for “Burn The Floor” and teaches people of all ages with Downs Syndrome how to dance. All the pros have success in their own ways and are really great and most aren’t snobby and wannabes for attention from the camera.
So I’m not understanding the obsession people have with botox and plastic surgeries (not just on the pros but most celebrities we see out there). It’s not new for celebrities and it’s also none of our business. Doesn’t it matter who our pros are inside or what great things they’ve done with their lives? As for the comment about Kym looking older, she is the oldest female pro on the show.
Thank you for this post. I’m rather out of the loop so these are great to read. As for that bad fall by Kym – yikes. I saw it once and that’s enough. No wonder Hines was having a heart attack, he KNEW he came down on top of her – and no helmut or pads! That’s like when Evan cracked his head – doesn’t take much to go from a headache to serious internal injury.
As for plastic surgery – if you make your living based on your appearance, you’d better look good. Botox (which I think Kym’s got going on) is strange to me. I know women who do it and it’s REALLY weird to see in person. Everything moves except where you’ve been shot. OT – recent photos of Maria Shriver are textbook. Her eyes and nose scrunch and then she’s paralyzed from the brows up. Just weird.
Why do people always make a big deal out of botox and plastic surgeries or even pay that much attention to their specific body parts?” Why? Because these people look more WAY MORE attractive without the modifications, not to mention surgical risk and longer-term deterioration of the procedure. I just don’t get it.
Oh Liz, I love Kym as a human being regardless of her appearance. And I’m not crazy about Julianne regardless of the size of her lips. I thought I made that clear.
Plastic surgery is IMO something that should be discussed not ignored. I’ve had a nose job (it was broken when I was a kid and grew a big bump which I got removed at 18 along with the septum repair) and I try to always be open about it. Plastic surgery is still not really socially acceptable; it’s questionable should it be totally “normal” or not. So it has to be discussed.
Your face is a tool for communicating with other people and when you change it up I believe others have a right to say something about it. You’re not just changing yourself you’re also indirectly changing others around you by playing with the communication tools. Sometimes you can read an emotion from a person’s face without knowing them or hearing them speak. So it’s not like a new haircut or outfit, it surely goes deeper and affects us all.
I’m all for doing what makes you happier, that’s why I fixed my nose, but I’m not operating under illusions that it was strictly mine and no one else’s business.
I agree with Jay, Botox can look really really strange. If it’s really noticeable you lose your expressiveness which is in most cases just a bloody shame.
Since we’re discussing appearance, does anyone else think Cheryl looks a lot different now than she did in Season 2? I don’t mean surgery or Botox or anything like that. It’s just looking at her dancing with Drew now vs. 5 years ago, she almost seems younger now – more natural and less sharp around the edges. IDK, maybe just longer hair and less spray tan?
@mmc – Cheryl does indeed look a lot different, and I tend to think that it was because she was fresh out of competition herself when she started on DWTS. I think that each of the pros has going through a bit of a transition period in the first couple seasons that they’ve done the show – they tend to come in with the very severe, avant-garde look of a professional Latin competitor, and it slowly softens into something a bit more “normal” over time. Cheryl was no exception when she first started – she was lean as a greyhound, wayyyy too tan, and with the very edgy, choppy short haircut that so many female pro Latin competitors seem to have. As the seasons have gone on, she’s put on some (healthy!) weight, let her hair grow out, & softened up her makeup. Definitely more flattering, IMO. Somewhat of the same thing happened with Maks & Louis, who both came in with the very long, slicked-back hair – very characteristic of male Latin competitors. Notice how it’s gotten progressively shorter? Karina stopped dying her hair the characteristic jet black of so many of the female Latin competitors and went lighter, & Jules & Elena were both growing their hair out after some pretty bad “mushroom” haircuts from their competition days. Mark & Derek’s hair got shorter, too. I daresay the ones who have changed the least have been Anna, Jonathan, & Tony – they don’t look too much different from their competition days, but then again, their competition looks weren’t quite the same extremes that the others were going to.
Dunno, but I definitely prefer Cheryl with shorter hair.
Actually I have an issue with female dancers and their obligatory long locks. I just don’t get it. Okay, it’s there to make you more expressive but when you have several couples on the floor and every female has the same hair only in different colors it makes everyone look the same. Like the pro dance starting this week’s results show.
So I think that those ladies who have a face for it (and IMO Cheryl does) should rock the shorter hair and they would benefit from standing out more in the sea of long-haired girls.
lol
So in their professional careers the motto was short/severe/badly dyed for the girls and long/ugly for the guys.
And on DWTS it’s long haired/big lipped for the girls and normal on the outside but bitchy on the inside for the guys.
Just kidding (mostly).
I don’t think plastic surgery should be done unless it’s medically necessary. If you go and do plastic surgery then you’re opening yourself up to people who want to make fun of you or make a really big deal out of it. Some celebs hate it when you make a big deal out of it and start hating them because of that. That’s what I’m getting at. And plastic surgery should not be ignored? Umm…. I’ve read more than enough about celebs getting plastic surgery. It is definitely not ignored, that’s for sure. I’m not saying ignore it completely. I’m just saying discuss it if it’s really necessary.
Haven’t anyone ever thought that maybe some of the pros don’t look the same as they did years ago because they’re older or because of make-up? Many people’s appearances change as they get older. Again, the more people talk about plastic surgery, the more that I’m convinced that people are just interested in the celebs’ looks and not who they are inside. I’m thinking there are people who don’t care for who the pros really are, which is why I pointed out some of the things Kym and Julianne do in their lives to be a huge success in their lives. What is wrong with living life without plastic surgery? Was Kym looking ugly to people so she went and had something done? If that’s what anyone thought, they’re not looking at her or any of the pros as humans. Just another celebrity figure to trash in tabloids. It’s no wonder why tabloids make millions. They only care about making money off of people who they don’t consider as human beings. They don’t care.
For non-celebrities, plastic surgery might not be a big deal. For celebrities, it is. It’s a big deal if people are trashing them because of it. A lot of celebrities do it for non-medical reasons because they feel like they have to please their fans. If their fans aren’t pleased with them unless they change their looks, they’re not really fans.
“A lot of celebrities do it for non-medical reasons because they feel like they have to please their fans. If their fans aren’t pleased with them unless they change their looks, they’re not really fans.”
And by the same token if the celebrities have plastic surgery just because some people think they should, they don’t deserve to be role models in the first place.
“Umm…. I’ve read more than enough about celebs getting plastic surgery. It is definitely not ignored, that’s for sure. I’m not saying ignore it completely. I’m just saying discuss it if it’s really necessary.”
Trashing someone as a person because they had plastic surgery does not equal discussing it in my book.
Liz, you seem to be the only one making a big deal about plastic surgery. Just sayin’
Well, I didn’t bring up the subject. Also just saying. 😉
If Bruno’s comment was directed at Ralph, it would be just as bad. Did Bruno forget Ralph’s wife was in the audience? He knew what he was saying (and it was not kitty).
But you’re going on and on for paragraphs and paragraphs about it in multiple posts – they’re having a simple discussion and none of them seem to think it’s the big deal that YOU do.
C, I liked it when the Pros had long hair. I wish Maks would grow his hair out again…and MARK BALLAS too. I don’t like Mark’s hair all shaved off.
Margaret, couldn’t agree more! I’d love that too. 😉
@Vogue – Dont forget Louis with a ponytail in Season 1, on second thought maybe we all should forget that one!!! LOL
Oh yes, we mustn’t forget Louis too! lol
Alright let’s change the subject. OMG Voguerista, did you see a picture of Mark with his hair sticking out? Too funny! lol. I think they were doing a piece, “When I was 17” but I’m not sure. It might’ve been the same piece where they showed Derek with long hair when he was 17.
LOL Yeah, I saw that picture.
Will there be any “cheese” this week Courtney and Heidi or are you too bummed out about the bonus dance results to find the snarky/funny side of things in that fiasco ?? 🙂
It’s coming, but I can ‘t guarantee it will be funny. In fact, it gets harder every week.
I think i saw a ring on Man’s ring finger tonight. Did they get married?
Mark….not Man. I hate auto correct!