DWTS Season 9 – The “Twist” and Cast Rumors & Implications
I reported on this possibility some time ago – now it’s confirmed. Dancing with the Stars is starting with 16 – yes, 16 – celebrities. On the plus side – every one should get to see their favorite pro (maybe). Maybe I’m just crabby, but dang!! With 16 celebs this show could be exhausting to watch! If a large percentage of them can’t dance…ugh. 🙂 Anyway, ET is reporting this story. Here are a few exerpts:
“This is going to be our biggest-ever cast,” he [Conrad Green] tells ET. “We are going to start big, and then about halfway through, we are going to do three double eliminations back-to-back. The middle of the season is going to be brutal when half of our cast goes in three weeks.”
In order to have enough professional dancers to partner with the stars, Green says he will be adding Anna Demidova this season, but no one new — the show already has used Chelsie Hightower, Dmitry Chaplin and Lacey Schwimmer — from “So You Think You Can Dance.”
Green goes on to explain that the reason for so many competitors this season is twofold: 1) he needs to fill the two-hour timeslot, and 2) he feels it is important to change up the show from season to season. As a result, there will be more athletes, with some new sports represented, some very big personalities, some slightly eccentric personalities [think Cloris Leachman], and a couple of names where people will go, “What is that person doing dancing?”
He goes on to basically say that it’s up to Paula if she wants to be on the show or not! That is the only person he sort of implies has an offer – and he seems to imply that Donny and Lou Ferrigno are NOT going to be on the show.
Well, what do you all think? Is it just me who gets tired just thinking about 16 couples dancing? And the mid-season brutal double eliminations? Eeek. 🙂
I’m actually ok with having more stars. I like them to mix things up. It does seem like it will be a crammed 2 hours. I wonder if we’ll really get to know the people and their dances as well with so many people.
Although, I must admit that there’s always one horrible dancer that I just love to watch dance. So, I’m cool with a few more of those. For some reason they just make me laugh.
Well, if this part of the rumors are true (16 stars) then it seems likely that the other part is true – that the first week will be THREE nights. I imagine they will do the same thing as they did season…6? Where they had the women dance one night, the men dance the next night and the elimination on the third night. That’s some SERIOUS work for you and I, my friend. 🙂
Yes, I think they will do a 3 night opening. Makes sense for them to do that and honestly I kind of like it when they did it.
It will be some serious work. Good thing we have each other. Imagine what it was like for me before you got here;-)