First Couple Of Weeks Of DWTS Will Be “One Packed, Spray-Tanned Sausage”, More Rehearsal Arrival Photos
Dancing With The Stars Tom Bergeron talked to Yahoo TV about the new season and all of the new changes coming. He comments that his new cohost, Erin Andrews, will be “great at both sideline and quick interviews and such.” Tom also commented that the first couple of weeks of the show will be “one packed, spray-tanned sausage” (LOL!). Monday promises to be “quite the adventure” when the show goes LIVE! Below is more….
After revealing that last season’s crowded celebrity holding area, the Glitter Pit, would be no more (“Hallelujah!” he said of the pit’s demise), Bergeron hinted at what the celeb hangout will look like in the new season: “A version of the skybox will be there. I don’t know if it will be the old celeb-aquarium, but it’ll certainly be more like the celeb-aquarium than the Glitter Pit,” he said. “These are all words I never thought I’d use in a sentence.”
The popular TV host seemed particularly excited about the star-studded cast for the upcoming season, which includes “Wonder Years” sweetheart Danica McKellar, “Star Wars” icon Billy Dee Williams, and five athletes.
“Particularly to have [Olympic gold medalists] Meryl Davis and Charlie White, they’ve been together 17 years as partners, and this is the first time they’ve split up and they’ll be competing against each other,” Bergeron said. “A lot of interesting possibilities with this cast.”
But when it comes to another big change this season — the midseason partner switch — even the show’s longtime host is in the dark.
“I went into the office last week, and they were being very secretive about it, and I don’t know if it’s going to be for a week or two or the balance of the season,” Bergeron said. “It’s something we’ve never done before, so it’ either [going to] be amazing or a train wreck. In both cases you got good TV.”
Reading his words gets me even more excited for the new season. Be sure to read the full article at Yahoo TV. Also, if you’d like to see more pics of the cast arriving to rehearsals this weekend, see the Daily Mail here and here.
Tomorrow evening can’t get here soon enough for me!
I have my head buried in the sand approach to the switch. I don’t like the idea of it all, I’m hoping it’s only one week with no elimination.
Vogue, thank you for being an early bird and posting all these great treats for us! Your “chicks” are a ravenous bunch — always hungry for more. 😀
I can’t wait for Monday night. DWTS-time is the *only* time I look forward to Mondays. :LOL:
Jess, I’m makin’ like an ostrich too as far as the switch is concerned. We’re stuck with whatever TPTB decide. So I’m hoping for the best and trying *not* to stress about it.
I can’t wait for this show to start!
I love this quote: “I went into the office last week, and they were being very secretive about it, and I don’t know if it’s going to be for a week or two or the balance of the season,” Bergeron said. “It’s something we’ve never done before, so it’ either [going to] be amazing or a train wreck. In both cases you got good TV.”
Good old Tom!!
Took a peek at the Daily Mail photos. Karina’s looking great as always. By the way, I’ve noticed Sean Avery has managed to avoid the cameras pretty much the entire pre-season; either that or he counts as a nobody as far as the paps are concerned.
Val kissing Danica on the cheek in front of the paps? I have a cringy feeling that on top of everything else they’re going to have a showmance *gag*
You are so welcome and thanks for all of your comments!!!xx
I wouldn’t worry too much yet about a kiss on the cheek meaning showmance, well I guess we’ve seen it before so maybe we should worry. Still, I think of a kiss on the cheek as affection. I think Europeans do it as easily as Americans give hugs. I never quite got the hang of it when I lived around a lot of people who were European.
Jess, I’m from Europe and we usually don’t kiss as a sign of affection 🙂 well, at least not in my country 🙂
Thanks Tamara for info, best for me not to generalize! 🙂
The infamous kiss on the cheek 😀 It’s very common in certain parts of Europe – mainly southern and eastern. Age might by a factor as well. My friends (college students) from the northern parts of Europe seem to be all up for cheek kissing. I live in the central Europe and usually go for a hug and kiss on both cheeks with both male and female friends 🙂
Hope my comment isn’t too off topic 😉
Tamara and Veronika, thanks for providing some European perspective. It’s appreciated. I’d like to think that kiss on the cheek is nothing, but I’m always suspicious about anything Val does. He’s so sly and calculating, and as Jess said, we’ve been down the showmance road with Val before.
Well i saw the pics of val/danica also.hmmmmm..could be showmance/maybe not! Who knows….tbh i hope val doesnt do a thing like that…
Urrmmm….I’m wondering if the Daily Mail knows what Billy Dee looks like? 😉
LOL, Cher…I thought the exact same thing. I could say something about their mix-up but it probably wouldn’t be appropriate. So I’m just gonna leave it alone.