DWTS14 Louis Van Amstel Says The Pros Will Know Whether They Dance Or Not In A Month
Louis Van Amstel was a guest on KTLA to promote his new LaBlast fitness and dance DVDs, but, here is the interesting part. Louis also talks about Dancing With The Stars and how the pros have a month to wait before they find out if they dance or not. First producers will find all of the celebrities and then start matching them with height first and then personality. They talk of how they put “opposites” together as well. You can listen to the new interview at KTLA. I like what he says about “daring to give up control” and “give up thinking” when you want to learn how to dance.
Again, if you’d like to know more on Louis’ new LaBlast DVDs and how you can order them, visit Louis’ LaBlast Fitness site.
ADDING: Louis did a segment on The Talk on Friday. He promotes his new LaBlast DVDs and gets the ladies dancing. If interested, see it at The Talk’s official site here in the 5th segment.
Thanks Vogue!
Heidi, sounds like you’ve got a mere 4 weeks left before the madness of pro watch 2k12 commences
Dwtsgossip said rehearsals start around the 20th of February.
I’m pretty sure Mark will come back so no worries on my side.
LOL Courtney.
Love Princess Heidi’s pro watch!!! Hope my favorite pros are back, but I’m also to those I don’t prefer being back as well.
If rehearsals start 2/20, wouldn’t the pros know a bit before then? LIke, in a couple of weeks? I’m sort of confused. Because that would mean Louis’ “in about a month” wrong, right? Help!
Louis better cross his fingers and his toes…..
@Violet – At this point, I think everyone is just making slightly educated guesses, based on previous seasons. I actually think rehearsals starting 2/20 sounds about a week early, given that the cast was announced on Feb. 28 last year and rehearsals began the next day; the show premiered on Mar. 21 last year, and it’s due to premiere on Mar. 19 this year, so either TPTB have decided to give the couples an extra week of rehearsal time, or that date is wrong. It may actually be the date the pros start rehearsing for pro dances & whatnot. If they’re following the pattern of previous years, I’m predicting the cast annoucement will be during week 9 of the Bachelor, on Monday, Feb 27. And if that’s the case – we can expect the pairings to be announced on Wed, Feb 29 on GMA; and the official cast photos to be released on Fri, Mar 2 or sometime after…they were a little delayed last season (we blame Carson
) Following that pattern – it would support Louis’ claim that they find out whether they’re on or not in about a month.
They don’t start rehearsing on the same date. Last season David and Elizabetta started rehearsing a week before the announcement. Maybe the person connected with her source stars rehearsing earlier.
Courtney, correct me if i’m wrong, but i think SOME of the couples started rehearsing before the cast announcement, like Kirstie and Maks becasue I remember her talking about – at the Q & A – that Maks was calling her G ” Grandma ” and she was calling him M ” Mean
” without ofcourse giving his name even though we all basically knew. 
So maybe some of the couples will start around the 20th and some not till after the cast reveal?
I don’t think so, Maddy – it was at most a few days before the cast announcement, because I remember that the first pros that met their partners were Mark, Karina, Tristan, & Kym, and that happened on Aug 25…only 4 days before the cast annoucement, and there wasn’t much rehearsing going on in those first meetings. They just met and had their first meeting filmed. I think they may start MEETING their partners the week of Feb 20, but I doubt there’s going to be much rehearsing (if any) done that week…and remember, the longer the time period between when the couples meet and when the cast is actually announced, the more likely there is to be leaks…so if they’re really and truly rehearsing the week of Feb 20, then they must be meeting even earlier, and that leaves a good 10 day period for couples to get spotted leaving the practice facility together and the entire cast to get leaked. I doubt that’s how it’s all going to go down, unless TPTB have decided to move the cast annoucement up a week and give the couples an extra week to rehearse.
Well, Zach, Kirstie & Maks could have developed those nicknames for each other just based on their first meeting, but if they did rehearse, it was likely pretty minimal – a cha-cha basic or two – I wouldn’t call it enough to say they really started rehearsals that day.
I think you guys may be missing the point I’m trying to make – which is that I don’t think the couples will start full-speed ahead into rehearsals the week of Feb 20. I think the couples will likely meet for the first time that week, and some may do some light rehearsing prior to the cast announcement, if they so desire and their schedule permits. But I don’t think ANY of them will really start rehearsing seriously until the following week, after the cast announcement has occured and they don’t have to be so cautious about appearing together. So that said, here’s what I’m predicting will be the schedule of the coming month – and keep in mind, this is just based on what has happened in previous seasons:
Week of Feb. 20: Pros find out if they’re on this season or not, pros meet their partners (and MAYBE rehearse a bit – nothing serious)
Week of Feb. 27: Cast announcement Monday, couples announced on GMA Wednesday, official cast photos released Friday; couples start seriously rehearsing
Week of Mar. 19: Show premieres
Week of Mar. 26: First couple eliminated
Thank you, Courtney! And this is why I leave it to the pros (meaning you guys of course)
Oy veh. Pro Watch. I get tired just thinking about it. I actually start about a week or so before that, depending on how good the rumors are and if someone (TMZ) manages to leak the cast.
What happens when is pretty variable, but Courtney’s got the basic gist. It’s been slightly different every year. For a few seasons in a row there was NO rehearsing prior to the cast announcement because before that people were getting really good at ferreting out the partnerships (and therefore the celebs) via the paparazzi staked out at 3rd Street Dance. Then it seems last two seasons there might have been one or two couples rehearse immediately before the announcement – I mean literally, the day before. I noted it because it was unusual for it to happen.
However, the pros meeting their partner is not always the same thing as the pro finding out if they are on that season. There have been several instances of Derek or others knowing they were on the show a good while prior to the cast announcement and even meeting his partner. As much as two weeks, if I remember correctly. I think that is because when a celeb requests a certain pro and the producers give them what they want, then the pro finds out and that’s that. On the other hand, there have been many instances of the pro finding out they’re on the show and meeting their partner a couple days later. It’s highly variable.
Which is why Pro Watch is so flippin’ fun.
Oh, and prior to the last….4 (?) seasons? They had more weeks to rehearse than they do now. By a week or so. I don’t remember which season they chopped it down by a week. Maybe it coincided with them building their own rehearsal space.
Last winter, at one of his gigs, Mark said he met Bristol before they started rehearsing. He said they started in late August. The premiere was the end of September.
When Chelsea Kane was going to sign, she said she asked Kyle who would be good for her , and he told her, “You want Mark. He’s the nicest guy.” They “played” it like she was surprised to walk in to meet him, but Mark had said at the MInt that they know before they are allowed to say it……
PS___That’s Kyle’s opinion lol.
Yeah, I think everyone knows who they get as a partner before they walk in. As for Mark and Bristol – meeting at a club hardly counts. Sherri Sheppard has met a lot of the pros and has been to Maks’ studio – if she’s on the show would you count that?? Probably not. The late August date sounds about right.
Speaking of Sherri Shepard…Wasn’t there talk of her doing DWTS this spring? Wonder if she’s a possibility??
Ask Vogue to tell you about Sherri Sheppard, Zach. She and I know something about her, but Vogue is the one that found it so I’ll let her tell.
Okay, the suspense is killing me…..
If Sherri does the show she should just shake hands with Louis or request Mark or Damien. I think she couild be Niecy 2.0.
LOL Heidi!!! Well, the story goes like this….
@PulseCreativeNY at twitter was posting pictures on the day Dance With Me Studios was filming for the Christmas and New Years Nancy Grace shows. She posted pics of Maks, Val, Carson, Tristan, and Nancy to name a few. In the mix, she also posted a picture of SHERRI SHEPHERD. At first I didn’t think anything of it, but, then I got to thinking of the recent rumors about Sherri dancing on DWTS. I quickly pmed Heidi about it to see if she was at twitter to see what she thought….especially being Sherri was clothed in work out clothes (similar to what Nancy Grace always wore for practicing). She was also pictured with VAL! The interesting part is, no sooner had @PulsecreativeNY posted that picture, she quickly took it down (kicks self for not taking screen shot in time). Now, my suspicions grew even more. lol
Ah ha! So that’s what Miss Vogue was talking about.
What do you know, Vogue?? 
Haha I think she would be a great pick for this season. She could be a Niecy type character, plus she has said she wants to get in shape so this would be a great way!
That is suspicous since she turned down an offer last season when she really didn’t want to – I think it was because of conflicts between The View and her marriage? – but she would be perfect for DWTS14!! I really hope Sherri, Ryan O’Neal, Paula Deen, Jwoww, and Tim Tebow are in the cast even though I doubt Tim will be on I think the others are still possible…
LOL Zach!! Another interesting note (take it like you want or dont want to,lol): Sherri also follows Tony, Cheryl, Val, and Kirstie Alley….but, not Maks. She’s talked a lot at twitter about dieting and getting into shape….why?
Some things just raise a lot of eyebrows when you put them with the past things she said. Then again, I’m pathetic when it comes to being easily suspicious.lol
Well, Sherri has also stated she wants another baby, what better way to get in shape and shed some extra pounds beforehand.
And little miss Vogue learned a valuable lesson. You IMMEDIATELY take a screenshot of anything interesting you see, be it on twitter or other places. I learned that one the hard way too. Often people post things and then tear them down really fast when they realize their mistake. That’s how we found out about Chaz last season.
And guess what my response was to Vogue?? If she’s on the show, I’m crying foul – that’s a pretty serious infraction, training way before anyone else. Donny Osmond did it and I didn’t like it then either. It would be like Derek getting Cheryl Cole (gag – no…please) as a partner this season after he taught her the paso and danced it with her a LOT. Actually, worse, assuming that Sherri took more than just the Paso.
LOL! Yep, Miss Heidi! I can’t wait to see if she’s dancing or not and how this will play out if she is?