DWTS All Stars Mark Ballas Wants Sabrina Bryan For “Round Two”, Tony Dovolani Promotes Her Too
Interesting! Not only is Louis Van Amstel pimping to get Sabrina Bryan back on Dancing With The Stars again, so, is Mark Ballas for “Round Two”. Tony Dovolani encourages fans to vote for Sabrina back as well. A lot of people were assuming Sabrina might get Louis as a partner if she gets voted in, but, now I’m not so sure? This mixes the bag on this subject a little more, doesn’t it? Of the three, who would you want for her partner? I say TONY! Though, I bet the prodcuers have other plans for him?
ADDING: Thanks to Jennifer, below is Tony talking about Dancing With The Stars in a new inteview with FOX 5 in Las Vegas…
Well, Anna tweeted last night that she would be starting work on the 30th of August. 🙂 So… even if they announced the pairings on the 13th as previously stated and then the voting finishes on the 24th, no one “supposedly” starts rehearsing before the 30th. What that says to me is that even if Mark is already paired with someone, should Sabrina get voted in (and I sure hope not) there is a very good possibility of a last minute change and Louis would get his previously assigned partner. Seems kinda shitty though.
Ah, all the possibilities! 🙂
I just can’t imagine them announcing “So and So AND Mark Ballas” very publicly on the 13th and then making a change if Sabrina were to be voted in. It would be really shitty to the person he was paired with (especially if it was Bristol or Shawn), not to mention just bad PR.
But the fact that he is so OUT THERE pimping her really makes me wonder. Is he that stupid? I’ve never thought he was brilliantly clever, but I’ve never seen him as dumb, either – so what’s the deal?? Has he just not had time to think it through or….well, I suppose it’s possible that when he said he was 100% dancing this season he was full of shit and was assuming that Sabrina would obviously get voted in. Because obviously everyone would vote for her, right, because everyone thinks they were robbed. (That was sarcasm for the uninitiated). That he was assuming she would get voted in when he said he was 100% dancing is one explanation that makes sense.
This pimping just may make some people vote more for Carson…..
If she is voted in, I see William “free willy” Levy pimpage in our future. It already feels that way and she hasn’t even been confirmed.
I don’t think so, Kelsie – the only people pimping her are a couple of the pros. With William it was EVERYONE involved with the show and the media. I don’t know that they will do that this time around – not with Sabrina, anyway. Is she still with “the family” (ie Disney)?? Anyway, with so many previous winners and characters on the show, it is less likely that they focus in on Sabrina to the exclusion of everyone else. Particularly with Shawn, Apolo and gilles all on this season.
Sabrina and Tony? Yeah NO. I don’t see it.
BTW, have you seen this interview of Tony?
http://www.fox5vegas.com/video?clipId=7567110&autostart=true
Cool Jennifer. Thanks, just added.
Do we know if they are actually announcing the pairings on the 13th of just announcing all of the pros on the 13th? It seems they would announce all of the pros and then keep us guessing more. It wouldn’t surprise me if this show plays around with us some more.
I actually would love to see Sabrina back on the show. Not sure why a lot of people don’t like her. I actually prefer to see her dance over Bristol but TPTB want the controversy w Bristol.
Didn’t like that.
I was praying for Mark and Shawn but if he’s really campaining to be parnered with sabrina, I hope Shawn gets another good pro, like Derek, Tristan or even Louis.
I think Mark will try to do something out-of-the-ballroom-box like that jive with Chelsea and salsa with Kathe… don’t like that dances. I’m not sure about Sabrina’s fanbase too.
However, for me, the top 3 will be: Helio and Karina, Shawn and her partner, Emmitt and Peta. (Yes, I’m assumming H&K and E&P).
and how about louis? (have you seen it?)
https://twitter.com/LouisVanAmstel/status/231460079528992768
From the show site:
Meet the Pro Dancers
The stars have been announced for Season 15 of Dancing with the Stars – and soon it will be time meet their pro partners! Be sure to watch Good Morning America on August 13th to see the pairings, and then return here to pick your favorites!
Kae, on the DWTS abc homepage it says they’ll be announcing the pairings on GMA on August 13th http://beta.abc.go.com/shows/dancing-with-the-stars/meet-the-pro-dancers/season-15-pro-dancers
oops, sorry Heidi didn’t see your post when I posted
Thanks! I just go on the site to vote!
LOL Carlos. Hilarious!
Sabrina wants to be back on the show, is it really a crime for her to ask her former partner to campaign for her? Maybe he really feels she should get the chance to dance again. Kyle and Carson could ask their former pros for support if they want to. As for Tony and Louis, they are male pros, coming from their perspective, maybe they just think Sabrina is the best dancer? For those sick of Sabrina being “shoved down your throats”, do you think she calls the producers at DWTS every season and tells them to be sure and mention her on the air? I can assure you she does not, is it her fault they bring it up? I’m a huge Sabrina supporter, and I would love to see her dance again, but I also like and respect Kyle and Carson. I won’t be saying negative things about them just to get you to vote for who I want. Like they always say on the show …..just vote for your favorite.
Just read the post from ABC again! Wouldn’t surprise me if the show announced the celebrity with two pros and had you go back and choose your favorite pairings from that! Maybe pair Kirstie with Maks and Tony and let the fans decide their favorite! Gives them more attention!
Way to miss the point, Donna.
Well said Donna 🙂
@Evaine – “should Sabrina get voted in (and I sure hope not) there is a very good possibility of a last minute change and Louis would get his previously assigned partner.”
Okay, I must have missed something, I knew about Louis supposedly campaigning for Bristol. Is Louis IN this season? I was under the impression that only if a female is voted in, then there may be a spot for Louis. If not Sabrina, then is one other male pro out?
My thoughts were – Derek, Mark, Maks, Val, Tristan, Tony, then Louis if need be.
Donna, you’re out of your element.
I could use a White Russian right about meow…
No, Sandy, what I was saying is that Louis would get Mark’s previously assigned partner. Possibly Bristol, who knows? But it sure seems like for Louis to return, Sabrina needs to be voted in. Whether to dance with Louis or Mark (as he hints with redemption talk) or someone completely different.
Well if putting Sabrina adds louis van amstel back to the show then I’m all in favor of it. I just flipped over his dances with cheryl Burke and Anna trebunskaya this season, I’m new to DWTS returning to live in the US last year and I thought he was one of the hi lights last season and would love to see him dance regularly !
PH – hope you are right. The guys will probably dominate and i am happy to see a lot of well liked celebs. If Sabrina is voted in I am not sure she will resonate with the average, non Internet viewer. I use my Grandmother as a judge for myself, not only does she not know who Sabrina is but she watched season 5 and doesn’t remember her.
Vogue, is it possible Mark isn’t pimping, but supporting a friend and competent dancer who he thinks deserves to be there?
I’d much rather see Sabrina on Monday night than Carson “can’t dance a lick” Kressley. How would judges seriously critique his cringe-worthy dancing? There is a place for him on Monday nights, but not on the dancefloor in a season where competence is name of the game.
Competence? There is 6 former champs, 3 runner ups, 2 3rd place finishes, and a competent Pam Anderson so far. I think there is room for Carson and what he brings (FUN!) that it will not ruin the competence of the competition. God forbid we have someone enjoying themselves even if they are not perfect dancers in the midst of the super intense Olympic athletes and performers.
I have nothing against Sabrina. I wasn’t a huge fan of her dancing style on the show though. Mostly I just don’t want Louis back. I still think his dismissive comments on Maria and Derek in his blogs every week was classless and I don’t want to see him back 🙂
Yeeaaah, Katarina, I think perhaps you’ve gone round the bend with that “competence” remark. I would MUCH rather see Carson than Sabrina. There is something to be said for fun and lighthearted over entitled.
Out of the three, I would love to see Carson back. He would bring so much fun to the show. I agree with Andrea, athletes and performers can be very intense and a competitive nature goes without saying. If Carson isn’t voted in, I’m hoping it’s Kyle. If it’s Sabrina, I agree with PH. There won’t be the pimping like we saw this past season, but I’m sure her and whoever her partner is would get the redemption card out there as much as possible. I just don’t think it will matter. I don’t think she would have the fan base she would need compared to the fan bases of the others without knowing who they are all dancing with.
Hmm, I wonder if the producers had a few second choices lined up (Sabrina, Kyle, Carson) and some of their first choices finally signed. Didn’t both Shawn and Giles say they signed late, almost last minute? So perhaps until Shawn signed on Mark was pretty sure he was going to get Sabrina? And now it’s hard to change his tune? And maybe they added the viewer vote for #13 sort of at the last minute?
I meant the other stars fan bases are bigger than Sabrina’s just on their own. Add in the fan base of whoever they are dancing with and I don’t think she has enough to move very far through the competition.
“FUN” That is exactly right. All the way Carson for me too Miss H, Andrea, and Cindy!!!!
Not me Heidi, but I will agree, that’s what makes DWTS work. Something for everyone. We’ll see how long Carson lasts, if he’s in.
I think Mark just misunderstands the situation. Like Heidi said, I don’t think he’s dumb but I don’t think he’d support Sabrina SO much just for the heck of it. Tony would, but Mark’s been pretty serious about it! He probably thinks they’ll switch partners around if she gets voted into the cast.
This is kinda wild.
BTW not only is Kelly following Val, he’s following Kelly! They are probably going to be partnered together. He does talk about her lot when asked about the show.
Hmmm Dee… Val is acting extremely happy these days too. Wow, and can you imagine if he won a season before Maks? 😯
I would think that Val and Kelly would not do anything that let “the cat out of the bag” before the 13th. I am thinking that they just want to fuel interest in the All Star Season and possibly try to gain more followers. I mean if Val started to follow Bristol, my guess would be people may start to unfollow him. He did say he would be happy to dance with her if she is his partner and that only shows me that he is a true sweetheart, as is Derek when he stood up for Bristol.
As for Sabrina, IMHO I think MOST people think she was eliminated too early for the talent she showed. Mark, Tony and Louis probably all believe she should get another shot. Kyle went to the finals in his season, and a vote for Carson is a vote for more Fun. He may have improved significantly from doing the Vegas show all those months, but let’s face it- if he has he’s keeping it under wraps until he’s on. I haven’t been on Sabrina’s twitter, but my guess is Carson probably has more followers, so that will definitely play a factor.
I think the most likely explanation is that he likes her and started following her. She noticed and reciprocated. I don’t think they would out themselves a full week before the announcement. But then, sometimes people do stupid stuff so you never know.
Regardless….Kelly ain’t going to win. Not even with Derek.
Tony, Mark and Louis should all be bitching about what a ringer Sabrina is, like they did for Nicole…oh, wait – they’ll only do that if she ends up with Derek and he takes her a long way. 🙂
Funny thing is I was thinking Val might get Shawn. Call me crazy but it has crossed my mind.
Donna C…..I’m not a “momma cheetah” or anything….B-U-T….just recently Mark bitched on twitter about Kristi Yamaguchi tweeting support for her friend, Cheryl. She apparently was “disloyal” to Mark, in his opinion, because she was a former partner. Strange how he now feels it is okay to “support” his friend, Sabrina, and not think he is showing a “disloyalty” to HIS former partners, Shawn and Bristol.
Also, what is this about Val or Maks (one of them and a few fans) complaining about pros ( I think Mark & Karina) trying to buy fans on twitter? I saw a comment by Mark offering fans autographed stuff I think if he gets to 200,000 fans, and it looks like (as usual) Maks/Val fans are saying Karina’s twitter fans are increasing since last season.
Isn’t it “normal” for “celebs” to try to enhance their base? Mark also is trying to make a name for him with music, so I can understand that, I guess. Karina seemed to have picked up a lot of Gavin’sGirls/ Gavin fans, and well, let’s face it…..she’s hot, and has been doing photo shoots/magazines, etc. She also saw an increase when she helped Donald Driver with his trio jive dance. Don’t they (those jealous fans) realize that just because there’s a large number of twitter followers that they don’t necessarily vote?
I mean maybe Mark & Karina’s few extra twitter followers = the handful of M & V fans who stay up all night voting with their 300 email accounts lol.
No, Sheery, the jump in Karina’s followers was huge… like from 90K to over 200K in the space of a month or something. A month AFTER DWTS finished. And those followers have one… maybe two.. .if any tweets. There’s a business out there that you can buy followers from. $15 for 20K or something. Easier than going on your twitter and selling yourself, I guess. I don’t know what the big payoff is either. Taht’s just what I heard reported. I don’t follow Karina to know.
#38 Heidi….You go, girl!!!! You said it best!
Evaine is right…the jump in Karinas followers was too huge to be normal. There is NO way she passed Derek and maks and is closing on Cheryl without monkey business. I’ve always paid attention to twitter followers and they have a pattern. Karina hasn’t done anything any of the other pros have done to warrant the massive increase. And Gavin is sweet but he ain’t Kirstie or Shawn or any of the others with massive fan bases. Not to mention that, as much as I like karina, she’s just not got the fans that Derek and maks have.
As for Mark, he’s trying to buy fans in a way, but his following has grown organically up to now. I’ve not seen any unexplainable jumps. I’ll be surprised if his current attempts net him 32k followeres anytime soon…I know several people unfollowed him for spamming, myself included.
There are some websites that offers to sell you followers. They can give you even up to hundreds of thousands of followers. I have seen pros like Cheryl and Karina been offered for it on their timeline. Karina may have bought it that explained the sudden jump. Cheryl had Rob with millions of followers and it didn’t give her that boost as much as Karina just had. I doubt Gavin will.
This doesn’t surprise me about Karina as I’ve seen on her twitter mentions of ways to increase your followers.-interesting.
Louis was never dismissive about Derek and Maria . Derek was cast in the tour by Louis who holds him in high regard! Carson is funny but TPTB should be giving him a Kenny Maines spot to dish about costumed! Watching Carson dance is tooo painful
I suspect that if Carson doesn’t win the vote for the final spot we will see him somewhere. It might be in DWTS spots or on GMA.
The guy is too funny (and loves DWTS) to not have him somewhere.
#48 I agree with you about Carson. They gave Brooke a host position and she doesn’t have nearly the personality, style and charisma of Carson. I would so LOVE to see him replace Brooke!!!!
Karen I do not think TPTB will every put 2 male hosts as permanent host even when Samantha left they were looking for another female host I can see Carson maybe as the one that interacts with the audience after the show to get their take on the nights dancing as well as other packages for the result shows but not as a host the show always have had Tom with a female host not including when Drew filled in for Samantha when she went on Maternity leave at the beginning of season 5 and I think they will keep to this format. So IMHO they will keep the formate of a female and male host.
Karina is doing her homeworks. I follow her on twitter, and she barely gets 30-50 followers a day on regular days. She realize the popular the pros, the longer staying power they have. She wants the producers to make her a priority and give her more competitive partners as Cheryl, Derek, and Maks. This is all part of her competitiveness….but she’s manipulating to make it happen.
She was a little desperate for sometime now. She Rts and trying hard to talk to each and everyone as possible. She go out more than any of the other pros to mingle and reach out. But it is still stagnant for her to overcome the other pros popularities. When i saw the websites offering her more followers,,,,,,, was just before the time it gave her the sudden jump.
Marie, you’re just throwing out red herrings right and left. It was Derek and Nicole and he was VERY nasty about that. His comments about Derek and Maria are debatable. And the tour was years ago. These days he sounds like a jealous, bitter little boy.
IMHO I think Louis is DESPERATE to get back on DWTS and is trying ANY WAY he can to get peoples attention so that TPTB will ask him back. Personally, I don’t see it happening, but I can’t fault the guy for trying.
I like Louis but he has been getting more Maks like in the sense that he needs to know when to keep his mouth shut because his mouth has been getting him a lot of heat lately, just like Maks. IMO, I don’t pay too much attention to that twitter followers stuff and I wouldn’t say Karina is trying to become as popular or more so than the other pros. In face, after the whole Maks fiasco, I think we’ve seen a better side of her and Maks has become worse. I also think she’s better than Cheryl in the sense that Cheryl seems to become a socialite because of her fame. That’s why I love Anna, she doesn’t let the fame get to her head and still maintains her humbleness. Karina, while still likes the celebrity status she’s achieved, has also not turned her back on the ballroom world and is seen judging and performing in a lot of ballroom competitions as a guest.
I wouldn’t mind Sabrina coming back, but I don’t want her to have Mark again. I really think to make this all-star thing work, everyone needs to have new partners so we can see if they can re-create the magic they had with their first partner(or make even better magic!). Can’t wait to see who gets who on the 13th; here’s to hoping they are all new pairings!
#55 I totally agree with you. Very well said 🙂
Not only does Anna maintain her humbleness she continues to work on her dancing. She is better and better with every year that passes. Some of the other ladies do not bother to continue to hone their bodies and their dance technique! Anna works works works
#57 I hope Anna can get a good partner this season. I would like to see her with Drew. I think she can bring out the best in him like Cheryl did when they were together.
I think it was Evaine who described a potential partnership of Anna with Giles as elegant sexy. I completely agree. I’m not counting on it happening, but that’s a pairing I could get behind for sure! (or Karina, 2 of my current fav pros)
I think it’s only right that they pair Mark and Sabrina together. Those two have a amazing story line…getting knocked off the show in dramatic (surprising) fashion, the dating rumors etc. will make for a good storyline. Mark seems like he really (genuinely) wants Sabrina to be his partner (he’s so cute in that video). I might watch if these two are paired together.
Carson! Carson! Carson!