Gilles Marini Will “Probably” Do Dancing With The Stars All Stars If He Can Work Out His Schedule
Access Hollywood caught up with Gilles Marini at the 2012 Monte Carlo TV Festival yesterday. In the new interview, he tells them he’s been asked to join the “Dancing with the Stars” All Star season “a long time ago”. The question for him is, “Can he do it” since he’s working every day on tv shows? He loved doing Dancing With The Stars the first time. Can it happen again… “We’ll see”, he says. “If things work out”, “yes”, he’ll probably do the show. He’d want to stay loyal to Cheryl Burke and dance with her. It will be a “battle” if the producers want him to dance with someone else. He has more thoughts on dancing the first time and judge Carri Anne Inaba. Lots more below….
OMG, this is good news for my morning. I’m ready for my day now. 😀
Who needs Free Willy! Gilles is the MAN! Handsome, debonair, a gentleman and he could REALLY dance! He should have won, BUT “Flashdance” – seriously! Good going CB! I know he wants to be loyal, but please give him to Peta to work her magic!
Oh, how I’d love this too Linz!! These two would be hot together.
Well this is the most encouraging news I’ve heard about the all-star season so far…kind of refreshing, after the parade of “no, thanks” we’ve been hearing from a lot of the former contestants.
Not sure I really want to see him with Cheryl, though – I kind of agree with Heidi that it’s kinda all-or-none: either everyone gets their original partner, or no one gets their original partner. And if everyone gets their original partner – that leaves celebs originally paired with Edyta, Alec, Julianne, Jonathan, & Ashly out in the cold, as well as the newer pros without a whole lot of past partners to chose from (Peta, Val, Tristan) partnerless. I’d rather mix it up and see what another pro could do with Gilles.
I’d be more excitement about Gilles’ statement if he didn’t say he still wanted to dance with Cheryl. 🙁
I whole heartedly agree with you all on the “all or nothing” idea about having their former pros. That would just be so blantantly unfair, IMO, for some celebs/pros to get to be paired together again and some not.
Well this is great! I hope Gilles can work out his schedule because he is one of my favorite male contestants ever, fantastic dancer, nice guy, good entertainer. I feel the same about the partnering as Courtney. While there were some awesome partnerships, I would like to see what another pro would do with them. It would be fresh and exciting. We wouldn’t get the same old, same old.
I know I’m of the minority who doesn’t see it as necessarily bad to mix some with old and some with new partners. Who has the advantage? In some ways, the past same partner team does because they know each other…but in some ways the new fresh partnership does, and maybe more so because people will be curious about the relationship (not romance) development, and things can be fresh and exciting. I would love to see Gilles back with someone new, or even with Cheryl. Just would be happy to see him back.
Im on fence about this. While I like to see what Maks can do with Nicole for example or what Derek can do someone else; I can’t see Shawn with anyone but Mark. Some partnerships are unbreakable.
I have become a big fan of Gilles Marini and would love to see him back on the dance floor – with Cheryl, as I think she did an incredible job with him. Did she screw up their freestyle? Yes … big time, and it cost them the MTB. I saw an interview with him shortly after the finals and he was actually apologizing to Cheryl because he felt like he had caused them to lose. (You gotta love this man!) He said the producers had given them several freestyle songs to choose from and he is the one that really wanted to dance to “What A Feeling” as he thought it was a tribute to women and unfortunately, Cheryl went along with it. Obviously, she was the pro and should have made a better decision but it appears she and Gilles have remained good friends and if he wants to dance with her, then that’s who he should get.
I sort of see what you’re saying, Jess, but I just think that if we had old and new pairings, the new ones would have such an uphill battle to climb against the old ones, especially if the couples were ones who had huge fanbases simply because of their pairing–like say, Maks/Mel, Derek/Nicole, Anna/Evan, Cheryl/Gilles, Mark/Sabrina, etc. I love some of those pairings, but I still think it would be unfair for them to compete against new pairings.
I disagree, Maddy. I think all partnerships are breakable. I think there could be new, exciting magic created with all new pairings, and we just won’t know until we see it. I think it would be amazing to see Peta with Gilles or Evan, or Kym with either of them. I’d love to see what Anna and Ralph could do, or Karina and Jason Taylor. There are so many, IMO, who could just be phenomenol together, but we don’t know or love them as much as a couple because we simply haven’t seen it yet.
I go back and forth on new vs. old partnerships. I think mixing them up might be in order for some couples. Laila Ali Is a good example, she was in the audience this past season. I don’t ever remember seeing her previously in the audience, I think she is a candidate for the all star season. I don’t think she would want Maks since they apparently don’t speak anymore. So she would maybe request a new partner where as some like Gilles may request Cheryl.
I think I would appreciate new couples more because it is fresh and that couple would have more of a journey. I feel like TPTB will mix it up or have all new as to include the new pros.
If pairing him with Cheryl is the only way he would come back tehn give him to cheryl.
Apperantly new dwts promos are starting to appear on tv. WTH!!! Isn’t it a little bit toooooo early for that?
Would be nice to see Giles return for S15 but I don’t see Cheryl being okay with him dancing with anyone else.-LOL I can’t blame her!!
On the other hand, I can’t see anyone else with Nicole but Derek–They were and still would be the dream team.
I wonder how the pairing is going to go…
Cheryl already said she would do All Stars if she dances with Gilles, so we’ll see. I’d love to see him with Kym, but not with Peta. She’s more athletic and would do better with an athletic type.I really think they should reward pros who have been on a long time, not newer ones like Tristan, Val and Peta.
Its hard to say how Peta would do with anyone besides Athletes because both her partners were athletes and even then she place polar opposite ends of the competition with them. I like it when producers mix up who the pros get i find it more interesting that way instead of only giving lets say Peta athletes it would be very interesting to see her with an actor or musician and see how she would do with them.
Yeah, Maddy, some partnerships may be unbreakable. Like Derek and Nicoles. Frankly, if some are with new partners and some are with old partners, I call bullshit right out of the gate.
I was all for Gilles and Cheryl but she really put me off with her season 14 behavior. I wonder if Gilles will have the overwhelming fan support from the start for all stars. The whole ” he was robbed” group.
I love Gilles… Cheryl notsomuch. I want to support Gilles, but after Cheryl’s behavior this past season… I just can’t.
But I agree with the pairings.. Kyle has to have Lacey, Derek has to have Nichole, no switcheroos. Its only fair.
I agree with Heidi. You can’t have some with new partners and some with old partners. It’s either or for me.
If Derek has to dance with Nicole, Gilles has to dance with Cheryl. It’s only fair.
I don’t think Gilles would dance unless he got Cheryl and vice versa…. I know from what has been said is that they are really good friends and they brought out the best in one another (the free style notwithstanding) that season.
I say give Gilles a partnership with Karina…it would be amazing! And give Cheryl the season off, please.
As much as I like Karina, I can’t see Gilles with her. The only other person besides Cheryl that I can envision him with is Kym. Mario with Karina would be the ultimate pairing for me, perhaps even more then Nicole and Derek, but Mario already said he’s not coming back.
Since several stars or pros have said they’ll only participate if they’re paired with the same partner, I’m inclined to believe that’s how they’ll do it. I agree with the others here, it should be all or none.
How refreshinhg for him to say he is a very loyal person and would dance with Cheryl. Also that before dwts he had no dance experience.He is as beautiful on the inside as he is on the outside. Just a really nice man!
I agree. If Mario came back and danced with Karina, they would really have a shot at winning! Unfortunately, I don’t see that happening. Yep, all original partners or all new partners is the only way to go!
@Debby #21 That’s a pairing I would like to see!
@jimmbboe With all their talent & good looks, how could you go wrong!!!
Like a lot of others here, I’d rather see an all-or-nothing strategy – either everyone gets their old partner, or no one does. However, what I think we’re likely to see is a mish-mash. I figure TPTB will make some sort of guess as to the old parings they think we’d like to see (Like Gilles with Cheryl, Joey Fatone with Kym, Mel B or Kirstie with Maks), and make those happen. The rest? Too-bad-so-sad… they’ll “fill in” with the newer pros… 🙁
Gilles and Anna. Imo, would be a wonderful team and wonderful ballroom dancing.
To Millie- I love Anna really I do but lets face it , she is not a good choreographer. She would h ave Gilles off so fast it woud give him a spinning in the head.