The Top 5 Worst First Week Foxtrots in DWTS History
So the other day, we counted down the top 10 worst first week cha-cha’s in DWTS history. As you can see, we only have a top 5 for this countdown – probably because there have only been 37 week 1 foxtrots in the history of the show, and the bulk of them are neither good nor bad…but just hard to remember 😛 Only a handful have stuck out in my memory as notable – and those are the ones you are seeing 🙂 But first, some factoids for your enjoyment…
*The foxtrot has only been used as a week 1 dance in 7 seasons: seasons 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, & 12. The other seasons have either had a waltz (seasons 1, 2, & 8) or a Viennese waltz (seasons 10, 11, 13) as the week 1 ballroom dance. Season 9 had both the foxtrot and the Viennese waltz as first week ballroom dances.
*The lowest week 1 foxtrot score ever given was a 13 – it was given to Mike & Lacey in season 12.
*Besides the 3 newest pros (Val, Tristan, & Peta), the only pro this season that’s never done the foxtrot as a regular week 1 dance is Derek – unless you count the foxtrot relay in season 9 (I don’t, because it was only 30 seconds ;-)).
5.) TIE: Sara & Tony, season 3 and Leeza & Tony, season 4
Zzzzzzzz….uh, um, what? Sorry, fell asleep – thought I was watching paint dry, at the rate these foxtrots were moving! I’m not sure if these ladies thought they would shatter into a million pieces if they moved more than an inch or two, but there was just so little going on in these numbers – just some very slow strolling and painfully cautious turns. The foxtrot is already a pretty simple dance, so it’s up to the pros and their celeb partners to inject some much-needed jazz into it to make it entertaining…and when they don’t, you get these sleepy, unremarkable foxtrots that I bet half of you probably didn’t remember.
4.) Rocco & Karina, season 7
Rocco seemed like a really nice guy, but he was pretty dorky on the dance floor 😛 You could tell he was really trying as he bobbed and skipped and flailed his platter hands across the floor here, but he also had the “I feel like a massive tool” look on his face the whole time. Granted, I think both he & Karina were nervous about her ankle injury earlier that day, but honestly – Rocco was just not a dancer. Sorry, dude..
3.) Cloris & Corky, season 7
I believe the term Bruno used summed it up best: this was like “Battleship Geriatrica”, with Cloris fighting against a lifetime’s worth of wear & tear, and trying not to fracture a hip while tippy-toeing around the floor with Corky. Thank God Cloris was hilarious, because I may not have been able to watch her dance – this almost looks painful, and at times I wondered if she might get disoriented and topple over if she spun too hard. It was cute, but it pretty elementary…and SLOW. Reeeeaalllly, reeeeealllly slow.
2.) Adam & Julianne, season 6
I think this was probably a bit of a “I don’t really give a f*ck” season for both Adam AND Julianne – because this foxtrot was a big dose of awkward with a touch of “whatever”. Adam’s stiff as a board, with slouchy shoulders and “frying pan hands” that could take somebody’s eye out, and Julianne seems to have taken the “I’ll just dance around him as hard & fast as I can and hope that nobody notices how bad he is!” route. Overall, kind of a cop-out. Oh well…Julianne already had 2 MBT’s. Going for a 3rd would just be greedy, right? 😉
1.) Mike & Lacey, season 12
I wish I could say that I hated this routine, but in retrospect, it was zany & self-deprecating to the point of being pure AWESOME. 😎 Mike knew he couldn’t dance, and he knew that nobody knew who he was. I’m pretty sure Lacey kinda knew, too. So what do you do when you’re a nobody that can’t dance and your partner has a trailer trash dye job? Why, you bust out the lasers and the silver lame and dance as if you’re under the influence of certain funguses, that’s what you do! Crummy song, crummy dancing, crummy costuming…but a whole lot of awesome.
So kids, do we have any eye-bleeders in this bunch? Or can any of you even remember any first-week foxtrots? 😉 Now that you’ve dealt with the bad, tune in for the good – coming up later this week! 😀
Mike personality and humor makes it bearable to watch 🙂 I loved how DWTS used him and Carson for “skits” on the show…hope to see more of that!
I think the most memeorabl;e thing about Cloris’ foxtrot had to be Len’s “mind your clevage comment” lol. Mike’s was bad but I hated Adam’s.
Since the hardest thing about the Fox-Trot is the stamina-factor, the worst part to me is how so many of them just fizzle out at the end. even when they start out pretty well. It is a toughie if u r not in shape !
Leeza Gibbons’ foxtrot wasn’t that bad in my opinion. Rocko and Karina’s dances were all bad in my opinion. dude was not a dancer. sara and tony’s was ok but she was kinda just there and not really giving it the extra energy. I think Josie and Alec’s was the worst (season 5).
Part of Leeza’s problem was the song being SOOOO SLLLOOWWW. But yeah, all of these were pretty bad.
I remember loving Cloris’s foxtrot. That doesn’t mean it was good 😛 but I loved seeing an older woman spinning around the dance floor. When the judges ripped it apart, I couldn’t understand why. But, again, I think I was just mesmerized by an eighty something on the dance floor.
As for Sara Evans, God knows I love her and she is one of my all time favorite singers especially in country music, but dancing was just not her thing. Fun fact however: Sara was a big part of why I tuned into DWTS for the first time. The rest is history…
As for memorable week 1 foxtrots, Kristi Yamaguchi’s still is the best debut anyone has ever made IMO. I also liked Chelsea Kane’s and Monique Coleman’s but remember, that was Season 3, so there were no memorable foxtrots yet and hers was nice…not great in retrospect, but nice. Thanks for taking me down memory lane, Courtney! 🙂
Courtney, I’m impressed. You must have propped open your eyelids with toothpicks to get through these vids. 😉
Okay, very off topic and y’all may have seen this already, but I don’t know how to get it to you other than here b/c I don’t use twitter.
WTH??????!!!!!
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20578543,00.html
Oh boy, 3 of the 5 worst first week Foxtrots are Tony’s – does not bode well for our friend Martina 🙁
@Violet: Hmmmmmmmm not liking this idea. I wonder if they would do this route. I’d hope not. But if its gotta happen I’m going to say Dymetry.
Saying that, I only know the little info I know about her from the Ellen show so all i know is she is gorgeous but coniving.
Please, no more bachelor/ettes! Worse yet, adding another pair would then mean 2 dreaded double elims down the road! I can only see this happening if one of the female celebs has had to back out, but surely our PDWTS sleuths would have reported on something like that. So I’m not buying it. I think it’s just PR (and maybe Team K-Mark needs to hire this PR person LOL)
Honestly, i wouldn’t put it past the producers to do this. There was no “reality star” in the cast and that could be their incentive but maybe she will just be in the audience. Or even better. outside of the studio in her car watching from her Ipad 🙂
Lordy, I hope this is false!!!! 🙁 I just can’t see TPTB doing this after billing the Season 14 cast as a “feel good” cast. Not only is this bey-otch from the Bachelor train-wreck, but the general buzz about her is that she’s the spawn of Satan… 😉 Would they really drag that into the middle of the “feel good cast” at the last second?
Yeah….spreading around some people on twitter now… Some thinks a female didn’t pass a physical; some think it’s Dmitry’s partner that backed out last minute and now in again; could be to spice up the gossip for people to tune in. IF she is on, pity the partner she has because she doesn’t seem nice and she’ll go early based on recent reality stars (other than Rob).
I think the main problem with these is that some are slow and kind of boring. I actually had fun watching Mike’s because he was kinda charming but Lacey’s hair was a nightmare. Easily the worse thing about these videos. And the one with Julianne/Adam & Rocco/Karina I just focused on the ladies to make it more bearable. Gotta say, I love Karina’s look. Its a bit more exposed, but beautiful 🙂
Rocco at least gave it some effort. Maybe he should’ve cooked for the judges first! The judges were remarkably sedate. Were they all on Valium? lol
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