I thought this Memorial Day image was perfect for the Pure TV Network to honor our military this Memorial Day. I hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day remembering what’s most important and spending time together with family.
A big thanks to all of our Pure DWTS family of readers.
The Dancing with the Stars season 14 final is already here. Unbelievable how a season passes so quickly. The DWTS Season 14 finale music is here also!! You can see the full list of Dancing with the Stars Music from the entire DWTS Season 14 season. Here’s the list from tonight’s show:
William & Cheryl danced a Cha-Cha-Cha to the song “Raise Your Glass” 
—P!nk
William & Cheryl danced a Freestyle to the song “Objection (Tango)” —Shakira
Katherine & Mark danced a Paso Doble to the song “España Cañí” —Erich Kunzel
Katherine & Mark danced a Freestyle to the song “Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)” —Benny Goodman
Donald & Peta danced a Argentine Tango to the song “They” —Jem
Donald & Peta danced a Freestyle to the song “I Play Chicken with the Train” —Cowboy Troy
I know others will make (of have made) their DWTS winner prediction, but I’m predicting Donald and Peta to take home the mirror ball trophy. Packer Nation, don’t let me down.
As many of you who follow the @puredwts account on Twitter know, I’ve had a lot of fun hosting what I’ve called a #DWTSChat on Twitter. Hundreds of people have interacted in the Twitter chat and it’s provided some fascinating discussion. Encouraged by this interaction and some new found technology, I decided to try out a #DWTSChat on Facebook before the DWTS Finale tonight (Ok, tomorrow is technically the finale, but I lump tonight and tomorrow together).
It’s REALLY easy to participate. Just visit the Pure DWTS Finale Chat page today at 7 PM EST (4 PM EST). This is going to be a real interactive experience. We’ll watch some videos together. We’ll ask some questions to drive discussion. We’ll take suggestions from the audience on which videos, pictures, questions, etc we should do next. So, show up, share the link to the event with your friends, family and Twitter followers. The more the merrier.
I realize I’m kind of announcing this last minute. So, I hope that many of you can make it to the DWTS Chat. If you like the experience, we’ll do another one tomorrow discussing tonight’s dances and look at incorporating it into future seasons of DWTS.
Join the Live Pure DWTS Finale Chat tonight!
It’s time for our traditional DWTS poll where you can vote for who you think will be the winner of Dancing with the Stars season 14. Will it be Katherine Jenkins, William Levy, or Donald Driver hoisting the Mirror Ball Trophy and becoming the Dancing with the Stars Season 14 Winner? The interesting thing is that usually in the Dancing with the Stars finale the judges scores are quite close and so it’s really all about the public voting.
Of course, this poll isn’t scientific, but when you look at past results from Pure Dancing with the Stars polls they do quite well. So, vote for who you think will win Dancing with the Stars 2012. Don’t worry about voting over and over and over again. The poll does a pretty good job of filtering out extra votes. It’s not perfect, but luckily we will get enough votes that it should be a pretty good predictor of the DWTS season 14 winner.
Feel free to also share in the comments who you wish was the DWTS season 14 winner or who deserves to be the winner of DWTS 2012.
I don’t know why I get so excited, but I thought it was pretty cool when I heard that they were coming out with some Dancing with the Stars inspired Barbies. I was lucky enough to have the 3 DWTS barbies they created sent to me and as you can see from the above picture, my daughter and nieces loved them (aren’t they cute?).
The 3 DWTS inspired barbies are the Paso Doble Barbie, Samba Barbie and Waltz Barbie. The looks of the Dancing with the Stars Barbie were inspired by Brooke Burke, Kym Johnson, and Kathy Ireland. In our house, the Samba Barbie didn’t have enough clothes on and so it’s now a Snow White dress with the Samba Barbie. They are really well done and could be interesting collectors items in the future. Although, I couldn’t help letting my daughter not open them and enjoy them the way a Barbie should be enjoyed (we’ll see if my son enjoys them a way a son enjoys Barbies).
Here are the 3 DWTS inspired Barbies on Amazon for those interested:
Samba Barbie
Waltz Barbie
Paso Doble Barbie
My favorite is the Paso Doble Barbie. The rich red dress is a nice contrast to the dark hair. I’m not sure if having Dancing with the Stars Barbies means that DWTS has gone mainstream or if it means it’s jumped the shark. Either way, I think it’s pretty cool. I wonder if they’ll come out with DWTS Ken dolls next.
Here are some other pictures of my daughter and nieces holding the DWTS Barbies. They had fun with this:
Dancing with the Stars season 14 semi-final music is here!! Time again for the list of Dancing with the Stars Music. Here’s the list of DWTS music from tonight’s show:
William & Cheryl danced a Tango to the song “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” —The Eurythmics
William & Cheryl danced a Samba to the song “Magalenha” —Sergio Mendes
Katherine & Mark danced a Quickstep to the song “The Dirty Boogie” —The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Katherine & Mark danced a Salsa to the song “Bananza (Belly Dancer)” —Akon
Donald & Peta danced a Waltz to the song “Kissing You” —Des’ree
Donald & Peta danced a Samba to the song “Mr. Big Stuff” —Jean Knight
Maria & Derek danced a Argentine Tango to the song “La Yumba” —Osvaldo Pugliese
Maria & Derek danced a Jive to the song “Tightrope” —Janelle Monae
Dancing with the Stars season 14 trio week music is here!! Time again for the list of Dancing with the Stars Music. Here’s the list of DWTS music from tonight’s show:
Donald & Peta & Karina Smirnoff danced a Tango to the song “Higher Ground” —Stevie Wonder
Donald & Peta danced a Jive to the song “Rip It Up” —Little Richard
Maria & Derek danced a Viennese Waltz to the song “A Thousand Years” —Christina Perri
Maria & Derek & Henry Byalikov danced a Samba to the song “Mama Do the Hump” —Rizzle Kicks
Melissa & Maks danced a Foxtrot to the song “Maggie May” —Rod Stewart
Melissa & Maks & Val Chmerkovskiy danced a Samba to the song “Hard to Handle” —Otis Redding
Katherine & Mark danced a Viennese Waltz to the song “Kathleen” —David Gray
Katherine & Mark & Tristan MacManus danced a Cha-Cha-Cha to the song “She’s a Lady” —Tom Jones
Roshon & Chelsie danced a Foxtrot to the song “Sweet Pea” —Amos Lee
Roshon & Chelsie & Sasha Farber danced a Paso Doble to the song “Turn Me On” —David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj
William & Cheryl danced a Foxtrot to the song “Stray Cat Strut” —Stray Cats
William & Cheryl & Tony Dovolani danced a Paso Doble to the song “Diablo Rojo” —Rodrigo y Gabriela
Dancing with the Stars season 2012 classical week music is here!! Time again for the list of Dancing with the Stars Music. Here’s the list of DWTS music from tonight’s show:
Katherine & Mark danced a Rumba to the song “Canon in D Major” —Johann Pachelbel
Melissa & Maks danced a Argentine Tango to the song “Marriage of Figaro” —Wolfgang Mozart
William & Cheryl danced a Viennese Waltz to the song “Ave Maria” — Franz Schubert (Performed by Jackie Evancho)
Roshon & Chelsie danced a Argentine Tango to the song “Bad Romance” —Lady Gaga
Donald & Peta danced a Viennese Waltz to the song “La Donna è Mobile” —Giuseppe Verdi (Performed by Vittorio Grigolo)
Maria & Derek danced a Paso Doble to the song “Montagues and Capulets”
Jaleel & Kym danced a Viennese Waltz to the song “Did I Make the Most of Loving You?” —Mary-Jess Leaverland
Maria & Derek, Katherine & Mark, Roshon & Chelsie and Jaleel & Kym danced a Team Tango to the song “Toccata from Symphony No. 5″ -Charles-Marie Widor
Donald & Peta, Melissa & Maks and William & Cheryl danced a Team Paso Doble to the song “O Fortuna” —Carl Orff (Performed by Vittorio Grigolo)
Dancing with the Stars season 2012 motown week music is here!! Time again for the list of Dancing with the Stars Music. Here’s the list of DWTS music from tonight’s show:
Gladys & Tristan danced a Rumba to the song “My Girl” —The Temptations
Maria & Derek danced a Foxtrot to the song “Jimmy Mack” —Martha and the Vandellas
Roshon & Chelsie danced a Rumba to the song “Cruisin’” —Smokey Robinson
Katherine & Mark danced a Samba to the song “I Can’t Get Next to You” —The Temptations
Donald & Peta danced a Foxtrot to the song “The Way You Do the Things You Do” —The Temptations
Melissa & Maks danced a Viennese Waltz to the song “Ooo Baby Baby” —Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Jaleel & Kym danced a Cha-Cha-Cha to the song “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” —The Temptations
William & Cheryl danced a Rumba to the song “Being with You” —Smokey Robinson
I’m sure that Princess Heidi, Vogue, and Courtney have been wondering and waiting for me to finally get around to posting about the Dancing with the Stars Live Las Vegas event. I apologize for the delay. Needless to say that it was a night to remember.
I think I’ll save comments on the show itself for another post and just include some of the pre and post party entertainment in this post. Although, it’s worth mentioning that Dancing with the Stars Live Las Vegas was incredibly well designed and wonderfully executed. I actually plan to go and see it again. I hope the show does really well and gets extended for a really long run. Las Vegas needs a ballroom show. So, go and buy some tickets for DWTS Live Las Vegas. Looks like it’s already been extended through July 7th.
Now, to the pre-show festivities. I showed up quite early to the Tropicana to meet my friend for dinner. We chose to eat at the delicious Bacio inside of the Tropicana. We ate at a table that was basically out in the main hallway. Turns out that it was the perfect table. As we sat their eating our dinner we saw almost every star and DWTS pro pass by. If I was in full paparazzi mode I’d have pulled out the video camera and gotten some footage. Although, I just felt creepy doing that. Sorry guys. It’s just not me. I would recommend you doing the same if you go to the show. I bet you’ll see many pass by before the show since the hotel tower is down that hall and I’m sure many of the stars and pros are staying in the tower.
After enjoying the dinner and Dancing with the Stars gazing, I headed over to the pre-party for the show. Yep, there was a pre-party cocktail hour and then a post-party at the club in the Tropicana. I wasn’t sure who would be at the pre-party, but it turns out a bunch of the DWTS pros that were attending the premiere stopped by.
Probably the most popular person at the pre-party was Tom Bergeron. When I saw him, I knew I had to get a picture with him to make Princess Heidi jealous. In fact, I think I told him as much. Tom seemed to respond fine to the idea of him being her boyfriend.
If you take a look at the photo, many of you might not recognize the man in the middle (I’m the one on the left and Tom is on the right of course). At first I wasn’t sure who he was either, but after talking for a minute with Tom and him I correctly guessed him as Conrad Green, executive producer of Dancing with the Stars. He was shocked when I asked him if he was Conrad Green saying something like I surely didn’t recognize his face. I’ll admit that I was pretty lucky since I’m usually terrible with names.
The great part of meeting Tom and Conrad was that I mentioned Pure DWTS and they both knew about the site. It sounded like Tom had seen our work on Twitter before and Conrad seemed to know the site really well. In fact, he mentioned that the thing he loved most about Pure DWTS is that we were real fans of the show as opposed to other media outlets that are just trying to file a story.
Conrad also paid Pure DWTS a great compliment when he told me that he was always amazed at how good Pure DWTS was at predicting the partners for the upcoming season of DWTS. He then kind of hypothesized out loud that it kind of made sense that we could do it so well since we go through a similar process to what they do in matching partners. Of course, we all already knew that this is basically what they were doing when they paired up the couples. If I was quicker on my feet I would have suggested that Pure DWTS could help him with the pairings if he wanted. Read more..
Thanks Vogue!
