DWTS Season 14 – Oh Come On, That’s Not Gonna Happen! Chapter 3
In case you missed chapter 1 and chapter 2, this is a series where I talk about what I see on Twitter that makes me roll my eyes in exasperation or laugh…or just groan in disbelief.
Once again, we have a series of people who don’t seem to read and comprehend the written word all that well…or perhaps they just read too fast. Whatever the case may be, they are a tad annoying. Why, you ask? Well, Huffington Post (awesome site, btw) publishing a post that they very clearly call their “wish list” is NOT a listing of people who are going to be on the show, OR a listing of people actually rumored to be on the show. Please look up the words “wish” and “list”. Thank you.
And really, how many times do Tebow and his reps need to say he’s NOT doing the show before people chill on that rumor? Getting sick of his name in my tweetdeck.
What else is annoying me?? What’s “not gonna happen”?? Spamming everyone and their freakin brother with “tell them we want Marina Sirtis on DWTS” is NOT going to actually get her on the show. What it will do is piss me, and everyone else who does twitter searches, off…in the extreme. Especially when your Twitter icon is annoying as some are. Really, just stop. I already don’t like this person or her fans and I don’t even know who she is…oh, and by the way – she will NOT have an impact on ratings one way or the other. Every year a fan group makes this claim….and it’s usually the fans of someone I’ve never even heard of before. Go figure.
Who wants to explain to Xtina’s manager that “The Voice” did not beat DWTS in ratings on Monday night?? Do I have to say anymore?? He’s probably comparing The Voice’s numbers to those of DWTS last season…still wrong. Unless they’re both on at the same time, you have no business comparing the numbers. When they were on at the same time, DWTS was beating The Voice easily. BTW, hell of a lead in, that Super Bowl. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE the Voice. It’s far superior to anything I saw of the X-Factor (admittedly, I got bored early on that one) and it’s different enough from AI that I enjoyed it on Sunday night. But I don’t like misleading tweets like his – it’s what starts turning all the “wish lists” into serious rumors. Very misleading.
Oy Veh – sudden increase in the need to campaign for pros happened just yesterday. Namely Chelsie and Dmitry. People – your campaigning won’t be any more effective than that done by the fans of Marina Sirtis. For one thing, they appear to outnumber you (even though it’s more repetition by a few tweeters than it is a massive number of people tweeting about it, if you follow me) and for another…if they don’t find them a match, they don’t find them a match. Usually, it’s that simple. I think Tristan’s appearance is a bit detrimental to Dmitry, even though I think he’s an inch or two taller than Tristan is, because Tristan appears to have wide appeal. Chelsie I’m not worried about. I think she’ll be back. But seriously – the show is watched by about 20 million people. Five or five hundred tweets ain’t gonna sway them.
Okay, now that I’ve gotten that off my chest, it’s back to pro watch.








Good post, and I agree about the Tim Tebow thing, seems to be like the Landon Donovan ‘rumor’ a few seasons ago.
*quietly slides a beer over to Heidi*
Amen Miss! LOL!!!
And also, the campaigning is annoying as you say. It’s hard to see any of the names in the ‘Cast the Next Season’ page because it’s all full of the same people with different names begging for Martina Sirtis, or Velvet Sky, or Beth Chapman – I have no idea who these people are!
Heidi – Great post as always! ITA, especially about the tweets campaigning for a certain pro to be on – that’s just a waste of Internet bandwidth…
I can already hear myself saying when the cast announcement is read: “Oh no, Not them.” Or “Yeah I thought so”….
Personally, I don’t take much stock in any of the rumors or campaigning, as long as I have PureDWTS I am good to go…
*standing ovation*
I KNOW Marina Sirtis (she’s from Star Trek), and at the start approved of her being on the show… but the campaigning has put me right off. Get a life, already.
I think Dmitry started his own campaign – https://twitter.com/dmitry_ch/status/166992802973106176. But you’re right, Tristan makes it hard for him to get back.
Dimitry who? IMO He is too boring and forgettable.
I can’t wait ’till the cast is revealed and some people finally see that they they were wrong and the things they didn’t believe are right. Thats when people like u dudes here can say “I told u so”
i will be lookin’ forward to that one.
Hey Heidi do you know if Sig Hansen from Deadliest Catch is going to be on DWTS this season, I heard he wants to do the show???
I kid I kid.
Sig has been rumored or wishing for DWTS for several seasons now. That said, I haven’t heard much about him this season. Hard to say.
Wishful thinking, but imo would love to see Dmitry, Johnathan, Nick and Tony, take the floor this season.
I think Marina Sirtis would be fine (Counselor Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation), but I gotta say the campaign has had me going “Why are they *doing* that?”
Honestly, I have yet to see campaigning actually work for celebs on this show – of all the celebs who’ve done the show, I can’t recall any of them having a huge fan-run campaign. All of these heavy-duty campaigners season after season…just gets tiresome. It’s not worth it, Marina fans.
Tiresome is putting it mildly.
surely some juicy credible believable rumors will be surfacing shortly? Please! it has been a tad arid this season thus far.
what’s the news on ryan o’neal – is he still in the mix?
I know right, Linde?
Here we are a mere 10 days from the date pros start meeting thier celebrity partners and not ONE credible TMZ/E! type leak or rumor…I guess Anna wasn’t kidding when she said they were keeping it a secret this year and to be honest it’s freakin annoying.
Maybe now that I said that we’ll get a few names that aren’t ” a source tells us ” from like Hollywood Life.
Btw Ryan himself said he was planning on doing the show this season so I guess nothing’s changed?
Oh I’m a total hypocrite when I say I don’t like it when names are leaked because I constantly check TMZ, E and PDWTS to see if anything has come up. I was so surprised that so many names were leaked in Season 10. I only remember hearing about Pamela Anderson and Kate Gosselin and maybe even Evan Lysacek. Granted, I hadn’t discovered this site yet
. So Season 10 was like a gift dropped on my door step that had holes punched in (because of Kate, Pam and Evan) but it was the best flippin’ gift I ever received! How do I always manage to bring Nicole in a conversation somehow?
It’s cuz you luv her, Nathan. We all do it with the ones we like.
It’s not your imagination – it appears that DWTS had finally gotten their crap together and figured out how to keep a secret. Unless of course Vince Young really is on the show. Then we know there was one big mouth.
Nicole’s mine, Nathan! You can have Audrina.
Honestly, I like this idea of the cast being ab ig surprise but they should announce the pros earlier than the celebs. It would m,ake it easier for casting.
LOL NATHAN and ZACH!!!
may i take this opportunity, while we’re in this lull, to give my seasonal THANK YOU to this great site and its wonderful moderators, commentors, analysts.
DWTS is my addiction, and this is where i get my fix. So glad to see all the regulars back (you know who you are LOL) … looking forward to our lively exchanges. 2/28 can’t get here quick enough, and damn TPTB for finding the crack in the info cycle.
Thanks Linde and we’re so thankful for all of you too!! Hugzzz xxxxx
#24 Ditto.
Excuse me Zach? Nicole is and always will be MY lady!!! Walk away now and no one gets hurt.
LOL!!!!!
Nathan and Zach, this calls for an intense round of rock paper scissors. And to all the ladies out there, Evan Lysacek is mine.
” Googles how to rig rock paper scissors ‘.
Nathan, you can’t have Audrina and Nicole. Dat creppy.
So i’ll make it easy and take Nicole. K?
Audrina was my crush of season 11. Nicole and I went on the best DWTS journey of all time. She’s “the one” who ended my losing streak and (time to gloat) Nicole tweeted ME personally to tell me she loves making anyone’s day. I think THAT overrules any rock,paper,(SLIT) Ooh! Zach, did I nick you with the scissors? My bad
I’ll have Audrina, my concubine assist while Nicole and I ride off into the sunset…
@Nathan and Zach – You guys are just too funny!!
May I add my Thank You to the list. All the hard word and dedication put forth by everyone just to please us dancing junkies does not go unnoticed. So THANK YOU!!
Thanks loads to you too!!!
And don’t you just love Nathan and Zach’s fights between the girl contestants every season? LOL!!!
Ur Concubine??? What is this the old testament?
Today we would just call that a pimp.
Since obviously neither of us will back down we can share, maybe? Or not?
Thanks Linde! 99% of the time we quite enjoy ourselves here too.
For the first time in about a year I went over to the “dark side”(ABC message board), and someone suggested replacing Carrie Ann with Paula Abul, ridiculous. So not gonna happen, and there are so many reasons why it won’t.
Paula was fine as a judge on x factor. I liked what she with the groups. But the show will not change judges. We might it annoying but like any show that has been on for years, they all play characters and those characters seem more like caricatures the longer they stay on.
In regards to Dmitry, he tweeted on Feb 07 to ask his fans to tweet ABC if we wanted to see him on DWTS. Everyday until either Monday or Tuesday, his fans did just that and I RT most of them since he follows the fanpage and DancingABC. DWTSGossip said he was “out” on Wednesday. Dmitry tweeted to someone yesterday saying “nothing finalized still waiting” He is not the type of person that would joke around about anything like that with his fans. I would know, I met him and had a dance lesson with him. If he is in or out, he will have to confirm it to his fans.