DWTS Season 21 Watchout: Will Marilu Henner Dance In Dancing With The Stars Season 21?
You might be surprised to learn that we already have a few celebrities rumored to dance in Dancing With The Stars Season 21. Take a look at them here if interested. And here’s another to add to the mix….Marilu Henner. Recently, she was on the Today Show. When the topic of Dancing With The Stars was brought up, she said, “I don’t know….we’ll see?” You can watch the interview here. I kind of get the feeling she’s been asked to dance before. I’d love to see her dance. What do you think?
I actually met her about a year ago. She was the featured speaker at an event where we had a booth. She was walking down the aisle after her talk and complimented us on our jewelry. I was struck a bit dumb and could only sputter out a weak thank you.
She seemed like a very down to earth, geniune person. She’s very funny too. Absolutely gorgeous skin.
I’m all for her being cast on the show!
She seems very cool, and like she wouldn’t be the typical token older celeb. I think I would enjoy her. I did notice that she recently began following some of the pros on twitter.
She always seems like a nice person so I say bring her on! Doesn’t she remember everything? I remember trump said something about that on the apprentice. Wouldn’t have to worry about her forgetting choreography.
Holy crap, I was just going to post yesterday when someone mentioned Marlo Thomas and a quote she had, that for some reason it made me think of Marilu Henner and how I thought she’d be a great fit for the show.
Vin – YES! She has perfect recall, an ability only a dozen or so people in the world have. She can remember what she ate for breakfast and wore on September 23, 1967. It’s pretty astounding, and I thought about that choreography aspect too – which is something the more mature celebs tend to struggle with – but she wouldn’t!
Now I really really want to see her on the show! She could be a lot of fun. I wish I could remember stuff like that.
So I looked it up, and her specific condition is called hyperthymesia, or the ability to have immense autobiographical recall. So it’s not like a photographic memory, but rather the ability to recall everything personal in their lives that occurred since childhood, easily and without hesitation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia
This is a celeb that I am not aware of but if everyone else thinks that she seems great then I’m sure she will be. Based on her age I’m guessing we have found Tony’s partner.
@meghan: not necessarily. A couple of weeks back, there was a pair about one of the real housewives stars wanting to do the show and to make a long story short, she lives in New York and is pretty tall according to the Internet.
Hit submit too quickly: if you want to watch something recent with her in it, she was in the hallmark movie with Candace Cameron bite that actually was pretty good. am I the only one that caught that movie?
Who is she? never heard of her! She has only 26.6k followers on twitter.. i don’t think she’s that popular to be on the show?!
I REALLY wish they rope in some big stars for season 21…i’d love to see a Pretty Little Liars girl on the show again ..this time with DEREK 🙂
Just imagine, Ashley Berson or Shay Mitchell with Derek …holy freakin’ WOW!!
DWTSFan, if you look at the link in her name, you can see who she is. I’d say she’s almost in the caliber of Suzanne Somers. “TAXI” is probably her biggest claim to fame.
That’s awesome she can recall everything. I didn’t know that about her before.
Hahaha – Twitter followers means nothing if it’s someone the demo knows – and she is certainly in one of those. She’s not quite as iconic as Suzanne Somers, but in the same vein – actress on an iconic TV show, and she branched out into Lifetime movies, infomercials, and other reality shows like The Apprentice.
@Vin thanks for the movie tip- I will have to check it out! Oh gosh please no more housewives though. These past two seasons have been great without them.
I just read her Wikipedia page that Vogue linked for us above and apparently in 2008 she first mentioned on Ellen that she was interested in being on DWTS!
@DWTSFan I don’t think her twitter follower count matters- people come on the show and gain followers. Before Amy Purdy was on the show I think she had less than 5k followers on twitter and she had even been on the Amazing Race. Alfonso never had a twitter account before the show and he is at 160k now. Plus I’m sure her demo is not really on twitter (are 40-60 year old women who aren’t famous even on twitter?) so that would probably explain her lack of a following.
I would bet money she would get Tony.
I could see her as a potential Tony or even Artem partner. Though height may play a factor. I googled her and some sites say she’s 5’7 and others say 5’8.
Marilu’s good friends with Deena Katz and has interviewed her on her radio show before about the casting process on DWTS, which is interesting!
Also another thing I noticed in her Wiki bio: “Her mother, Loretta, was president of the National Association of Dance and Affiliated Arts and ran the Henner Dance School for 20 years. Henner took her first dance class at age two then went on to teaching dance at her family’s studio when she was 14 and choreographed shows at local high schools and colleges until leaving the Chicago area during her third year of college.”
So she’s got some dance experience behind her! Not sure what kind of dance, but if she was ever on this show she’d give me Jane Seymour vibes I’d think too.
That would be great for Tony because she has past dance experience and she could really be a contender. We havent had an old contender in a long time.
She played Candace’s mom in Aurora Teagarden
I think she was one of the hosts of the PBS ballroom competition programs, or rather when PBS was showing world and other championships in ballroom dancing. I am pretty sure she is a good and trained dancer.
I do hope they find someone around 60 or over who can actually dance really well and have a real shot of winning. I’d love to see Donny Osmond’s winning age record broken. Older people can get to the latter stages of the competition but never end up winning it. Would love that to change. I feel like although social media doesn’t play a massive part on a couple actually winning it does make things a lot harder in the early stages especially if you have someone like Marilu Henner against someone like Shay Mitchell or Nina Dobrev. The fitness and stamina required of course is another big factor.
Marilu Henner actually is a big star from the past anyway. Definitely on an equal footing with Suzanne but has more recent work on her resume.
PLL?? Those people can’t touch someone like Marilu and Marilu is right in the demo that watches this show. I have to say, you should have heard the laughter when you said you wanted a “big star” and then mentioned PLL. Now THAT is funny as hell.
PH, I laughed at that so loudly that I scared my cat that was next to me. PLL indeed.
I really do think she’d be an amazing fit for the show. Hope it happens!
Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the zeal that pretty little liars fans have but sometimes they scare me lol. They might go crazy when the show ends.
DWTS can NEVER afford the ”REAL” big stars for heaven’s sake! So PLL girls are definitely a lot bigger stars than they’ve had on the show before…
Michael Sam.. whose claim to fame is being gay or Charlotte whose claim to fame is a burger ad or a freakin’ youtube girl? lol Atleast the ones i’ve mentioned are part of a very popular TV show and people actually knows ’em unlike most of the ”stars” they usually rope in.
LOL…no, the PLL people are NOT “a lot bigger” stars than they’ve had on the show before. Not even close. Much like you don’t know Marilu, I know none of them, and I wager most of the DWTS doesn’t know them either. And that “freakin’ youtube girl” is no question bigger than them – a TV show on an off network? TV is hardly the only platform these days and an off network takes it even farther away. Youtube is where it’s at. I do love how you mention a couple lesser knowns and leave out people like Suzanne or Patti Labelle – and that’s just from this season.
A “big star” is someone everyone knows. Marilu is closer to that than anyone on PLL, especially if you limit it “everyone” to the DWTS demographic.
The arrogance of youth is quite amusing though, so thanks.
If we are going to mention someone can I throw a guy in? Scott foley from Scandal would be great and put him with Emma or Sharna please
To be fair there was uproar online when the S20 cast was announced. All that you could hear was “only Patti LaBelle and “Suzanne Somers” are worthy of the term stars” etc.
Speaking of older contestants I would love to see Bruce Jenner give it a go. I reckon with that olympic background Bruce could really surprise a few people.
To be fair, M8, you would have to read what DWTSFan actually SAID and that was that the PLL people are bigger stars than ANYONE who’s ever been on the show. And that is utter bullshit…as you yourself point out.
That’s not what i said @Heidi. What i meant to say was, PLL girls (only the 4 main girls) are bigger stars than a LOT OF THE so called stars they usually cast, NOT ‘ANYONE who’s even been on the show’ as you said. PLL girls or Nina Dobrev are definitely no way even closer to someone like a Patti Labelle, Gladys Knight, Jennifer Grey, Kirstie Alley etc etc etc..
Well, DWTSFan, you should be REALLY careful with sentence like this one: “So PLL girls are definitely a lot bigger stars than they’ve had on the show before…” Because that is what set me laughing my ass off in disbelief.
And again, just now, you used the word “usually” which is STILL not true. “Usually” implies “most of the time” – maybe in your (very young) world that is true, but I doubt very much it’s true in the DWTS audience. PLL girls are on a small tv show on an off network. I bet more of the DWTS demographic knows who Michael Sam is. Janell was brought on the show (as a complete unknown to most of the DWTS audience) as a way to draw a younger audience to the show. The ratings show that hasn’t really worked. The audience average age for DWTS is, like, 64. To THAT person, a PLL is the troubled kid living down the street.
@DWTSFan
Wake up and look at the bigger picture! Not your little young world! Patti Labelle is a LEGEND who is in the Grammy Hall of Fame and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame amongst other honors. Suzanne Somers was the star of TWO hit TV shows and is a well known health guru. Gladys Knight, 4 time Grammy winner is known as the Empress of Soul. Jennifer Grey is a movie star. Kirstie Alley is a well known movie and TV star, ect.
There’s a reason why while a lot of the older stars may not be great dancers, they never get bumped off early and always get to around the halfway point. Because the DWTS demographic will vote for them over the young celebs. The older legends draw in the television ratings. Gladys Knight, Bill Engvall, Candace Cameron Bure, Tommy Chong, Suzanne Somers, Patti LaBelle bring a lot more to the show than your average Disney star or ABC family member.
I wouldn’t know a PLL if it hit me in the face with a 2×4! LMFAO!! Just like I had NO IDEA who Janel Parrish was (or Bethany Mota for that matter) UNTIL DWTS S19. I’m an ‘older person”at the ripe old age of almost 43 😉 After this last fiasco of a season, it’s gonna take a HECK of a lot to get me to watch DWTS S21, THAT is for sure.
But please, no more PLL’s or Kardashian’s(INCLUDING Bruce Jenner)!
Now if you gave Marilu to Derek? I’d be all over that and then MAYBE ‘the Fam” would SHUT-UP about Derek always getting younger partners (insert eye-roll here)!
No they wouldn’t, Kelly K, because they are just that stupid. Derek came in 4th and still I saw tweets about him always getting the dancers and needing to be challenged. He didn’t even make the finale, Val won, and still they complain.
There is NO FIXING STUPID. Period.
and that’s why I said ‘maybe’ and insert eye-roll! LOL. Nope, you can’t fix stupid but you CAN sedate it 😉 Maybe we could mail out mass quantities of valium to the C-bro fans next season? 😀
She looks amazing for her age! I think she’d do really well. I can see her as Artem or Tony’s partner, since she’s got some dance background like Lea Thompson and Jane Seymour, and I think she’d have what it takes to go far. She could be Derek’s partner too, but I’m hoping he takes S21 off to pursue other things.
The producers would do well to cast another beloved celebrity with mass appeal from an 80s/90s sitcom. Someone like Alfonso, who kind of bridges the gap between core older viewers & younger viewers.
Add me to the “I don’t have a clue about PLL or the cast” club. I never even heard of Janel until she did DWTS.
Would be cool if they got Christopher Lloyd and her on the same season. They were my favs on taxi.