DWTS Season 10 – More Professional Mystery
So, Jonathan is out – sad but not entirely unexpectedly – and Louis still hasn’t been told. What the heck is going on here? This makes me think that they aren’t entirely sure of their cast yet – one week away from the announcement. Why would Jonathan be a definite no and Louis still not know? Louis is the shortest male, Mark next, then Derek – I think. I think there is 3 inches or so between Derek and Louis, so I would imagine they have a short girl and are trying to figure between Mark and Louis. But I could be totally full of crap. 🙂 In any case, this is a blow (kinda) to the “attitude” and “ballroom skill” theories for which pros are making it and which ones aren’t.
The show starts four weeks from Monday – at this rate they are NOT going to have four weeks rehearsal before the show starts.
ETA: Add Dmitry to the “I still don’t know” list.
ETAA: And lovely Louis supplies a perfectly logical reason for the way the pros are finding out (or not finding out) – wish I would have thought of it. 🙂
You know, since he hasn’t been told NO, that means he likely does have a partner they’re waiting to sign. I would imagine the same goes for Dmitry. Since Anna T commented she doesn’t want to say until it’s set in stone, I bet she has a partner too. Now – what about Derek’s tweet from last Tuesday?
To recap:
The Men –
Jonathan – the only solid no
Dmitry – doesn’t know
Louis – doesn’t know
Derek – is confusing
The women –
Cheryl – definite yes
Lacey – definite no
Anna T. – doesn’t know
Karina – doesn’t know.
Those that haven’t said a word: Maks, Mark, Tony, Alec, Anna D, Chelsie, Edyta, Kym
From ABC’s point of view all this subterfuge and mystery is only adding to the hype and anticipation for the show.
Where’s Tom Bergeron when you need him. He’d cut through all this bull and give us the definitive answer. I take it Tom is coming back for season 10?
Colin
They best be careful with the game playing or some might just walk away.
Tom? If they lose him they should just hang it up.
Now Chelsie has confirmed. The pros are slowly coming out of the woodwork.
Agree that Tom does put the ‘T’ into DWTS …
Colin
Aannnddd….chelsie deleted her confirmation. Weirdness.
Since we are free to wildly conjecture while in the dark, it occurred to me to wonder if Mya’s failure to win last year affects Dmitry’s standing with female celebs and their requests for pro’s. They’ve certainly not had Maks around hardly at all since Mel B was robbed of her win. So, just wondering.
How on earth do they expect to keep it quiet ALL NEXT WEEK??? It’s beyond me. We’ll probably only get to know the “no’s.”
I wonder how much say celebs have in ‘choosing’ their partners as they always seem to be totally surprised when they first meet on camera.
I can understand Kelly O asking for an ‘older’ partner so soon after her engagement but how much power does a celeb over choice of partner?
Are both pro and celeb kept totally in the dark until they meet?
Colin
I’m waiting for Maks. He has been around but they gave him crap partners two seasons in a row and Misty had to withdraw so we have had a loooooong dry time with no Maks. Time for him to return with a vengeance.
Maks worries me, Linda – he’s not said a single word about DWTS and now he’s on his way to NYC. I would be shocked if he wasn’t back, but I was shocked that Lacey wasn’t back.
Colin, I’m reasonably sure that the bigger name celebs have some pull in which pro they get, but I doubt they get a guarantee. For example, LaToya Jackson, after DWTS got the rights to use Michael’s music, could probably have her pick of the men – and a lot of Derek fans are/were relatively convinced (terrified) that she wants Derek, after the way she was all over him when he took his shirt off for the lambada. There have been rumors every season that so and so demanded a given pro. But most of the time those rumors come from the fans of that pro – so who knows? 🙂 Lots of time, speculation turns into fact because people are sloppy readers thanks to the internet.
No, the celebs don’t know in advance (most of the time), but the Pros are supposedly told which celeb they are getting so they can avoid embarrassing situations like one that reportedly happened a few seasons ago where the pro walked into the room and didn’t know which person was his/her partner. One of the pros – either Derek, Maks or Cheryl I think, said not long ago that they are told like the day before which celeb is their partner. I assume so that they can Google if necessary. 🙂
Kelly was worried about being newly engaged, but she was also worried about having a partner who she could push around or who would let her get away with stuff – but I don’t think they switched her from Mark to Louis because she has any kind of pull, but because they took her concerns to heart, which was actually kinda nice.
Heidi, the celeb can also ask for a pro (like Denise Richards did). They may not get them but it’s a good chance they might.
Heidi, some folks are taking Derek’s lone hint (‘I’m”) as further evidence of his growing arrogance, smugness, entitlement. Have you any thoughts on whether Derek has a big head? I know I was put off when he tweeted that “Michael liked me best.” (The universal response was: “Of course he did, DH, you look like a little boy!”)
You seem to have a very firm grasp on rumor, fact, attitude, etc., and I wondered what your take on pro’s egos is nowadays.
Joanie, a lot of people are jealous on behalf of their own pro for whatever reason. They also take one sentence on a thing like twitter (where he’s been tweeting for more than a year), where you’re only allowed so many characters, as indicative of an entire, real person – which is just stupid. So I tend to ignore people like that. These people are human beings, but they get less slack than you and I do – I guarantee you that the people who have problems with Derek’s ego do NOT have a perfect record of behavior themselves – nor does THEIR favorite pro. They are LOOKING for a reason to be mad. Everyone has a bias, not just fans of a person, but “haters” also. And one of the things people love to do on the internet (and I’ve been playing on the net since before the usenet days) is make their favorite people look better by tearing others down. I’ve seen it over and over and over. If you don’t like someone or someone is annoying you, fine – but don’t use stupid shit like one line on twitter as a reason. I don’t care for Dmitry – I don’t dislike him, but I don’t really care for him. I don’t know WHY and I don’t feel the need to LOOK for a reason. It just is.
As for the Michael comment, What he actually said was this:
“I just saw something where Jermaine Jackson said that Micheal Jackson used to watch the show , and that I was MJ ‘s favourite …”
And he followed with:
“I am completely speachless … To even know that he watched is mind blowing … Wow !!”
Now, this guy has idolized MJ (which I don’t understand, but whatever) his whole life because of the dancing and the music – he sees something where Jermaine said he was the favorite. Why in the HELL wouldn’t anyone be blown away by something like that with their idol? What is wrong with expressing that you’re “blown away” by something? How is that arrogant or egotistical? I’m sorry, but if that is enough to give people heart burn I think perhaps they have other issues and are looking for reasons to be upset with Derek. If anything, I think Derek does not do ENOUGH promoting of himself – it actually drives me insane. I see Mark and Maks and others pimp themselves all the time -and why not? That’s how you get ahead in this business. That’s what you’re supposed to do. Mark has almost gotten to the point of a spammer when it comes to his music. But Derek? Didn’t say a word about being in BTF until right before it happened. Didn’t say a word about choreographing for Cheryl Cole for a long time. But he goes out of his way to pimp his friends – it’s maddening. I believe he has a lot of stuff – good stuff – coming up this year, but will he talk? No. Ask John – I was getting really annoyed with him because he doesn’t seem to want to promote himself the way he should.
And no, the response you describe is not the “universal response” – not by a mile. There’s no such thing as a universal response. Some of us had the response of “You ARE the best, so why wouldn’t you be MJ’s favorite? DUH.” His tweet last night? Well, he’s always been a tease….most of his FANS think he’s playing with us.
Didn’t I say that, Katrina? I guess maybe only in a round about way. 🙂
Okay, Derek confirmed for Season 10, the little bastard. 🙂 How DARE he expect his fans to be literate!! LOL
Any word from Tony and Mark?
Argh. No, Jennifer. Well, not really. When Derek was being very mean ( 😉 ) to his fans, Tony jumped in and said, “Dude that was mean, but very funny” – so when he jumped in, several asked him if he was going to be on. His only response that I saw was a smiley face. BUT, he did the smiley face in response to someone who said it wouldn’t be the same without him. I did not take that as a confirmation, but others did take it as one. Jury is still out.
Mark is still very, very mute on the subject of DWTS. I imagine there will be a flood of tweets tomorrow.
Good to see that Derek is being Derek cos if Derek wasn’t being Derek then he’d NOT not be Mark Ballas.
Princess Heidi: Thanks for the long reply.
As for knowing who the celebs are and who’s partnered with them and who knows who … we had one UK pro on Strictly Come Dancing who had to Google his new partner (right after meeting her) to find out who she was.
Obviously the celebs should know who the pros are – if they ever watched the show. Though Louie Vito claimed never to have seen it before he came on.
But my ‘need to know’ as far as the celebs are concerned is who are the back ups to the C & D listers that actually appear on the show. As well as signing up the 12 celebrity starters, ABC must also need to sign up a couple of back up celebs in case of drop out – like Melissa R and Holly M in past series. I always wonder who these celebs are that aren’t good enough to be on the show in their own right. How far down the Celeb barrel do they scrape?
So I’m not so worried about who the 12 celebs might be … I’m all over the 2 or 3 back ups lol
btw Who’s this Brooklyn Decker that I’ve heard rumored to be partnering Tony D? She sounds like a small bridge over the Hudson River.
Colin
No Jonathan? nothing about Maks? I would rather have Lacie than Chelsie, rather Maks than Karina, I thought it was the dancers that made the decision to come back or not? and now to find out that the powers that be make decisions? , does the audience not count? May not watch this year if they take all the people who are so good and make it fun to watch off.
Okay, Mark just said he doesn’t know about himself – after he told people not to panic about Derek. So, Derek is in and Mark doesn’t know. Which means that Mark is probably in too but is waiting on the celeb to sign the contract.
No Laura, the producers decide who comes back. I think the pros only get a say if they are not “committed” to the show or if they are let out for a season or two, a la Julianne. Derek implied that Julianne was still under contract too in a recent video, so unless they let her out of her contract, she’ll be back eventually.
LOL, Colin – Derek was not NOT being a total BRAT with that tweet. He doesn’t think before he tweets sometimes – either that or he gave people WAY to much credit for being able to read. I don’t think he was supposed to say anything at all, which is why he said what he did – and why Chelsie deleted hers. You’ll note that Cheryl never used the words DWTS in hers, so she was safe. Luckily, the only people who seemed to get mad at Derek were those already mad at him for Cheryl Cole (all four of them). If you don’t know what I’m talking about – Google. 🙂
I don’t think that Melissa and Holly were actually signed UNTIL it was for sure that Nancy and Jewel were out – they kept making such a big deal about Melissa, plus to hear her tell it it all happened in the space of two or three days. So, I don’t think they have actual backups signed, although I imagine they have a list of people who might want to do it.
Brooklyn Decker – I’ve seen lots of talk about her, but my impression it was along the lines of wishful thinking. Her fans hoping she was going to be on the show. Who knows.
I see Tony D went the same way as Cheryl and has just tweeted he’d be away from his family for 3 months. Whether that’s on DWTS or a new film, I dunno.
Am glad Cheryl Cole is making news over there. Had more than enough of her and her soccer playing husband over here.
Seen pics of Brooklyn D and can’t see her and Pamela Anderson being on he same show. Unless the producers want a lap dance contest on the dancefloor. Am sure Chelsie H could give those two DD-list celebs a run for their money.
Colin
I never heard of Cheryl Cole until Derek went to London to choreograph for her. Now I’m kinda tired of hearing about her and it’s only been 2.5 months. Lord help me if she moves here and Derek hangs out with her more. Talk about overkill.
Think how happy I’ll be if Ms Cole moves to LA. She mimes and wiggles in a girl band I abhor, she is a judge on a TV show I abhor and she is married to a soccer player who plays for a team I abhor plus she has a horrible accent. And she can’t even dance properly when she’s partnered up with D.
America … Cheryl Cole is all yours lol
I think she’s only hanging around Derek to absorb some of his mega-watt starpower. She’s obviously trying to get her Louboutin’s in the door at Hollywood.
Colin
p.s. is it me or has it been v v quiet on the DWTS news today. Thought we were going to hear it all today.
It’s not you – it’s v v quiet. Karina and Maks are both tweeting, but not about anything we want to hear. Karina is going to the movies and Maks is talking about how cute his mom is while shopping. 🙂 Derek has gone back to his very annoying twitter silence. Annnnd, that’s pretty much it. I really thought we’d start hearing by now. Maybe Louis is the first in a chain reaction. 🙂
Cheryl seems like a nice girl – it’s not really her fault that the British media just go absolutely apeshit over her. As for Derek – I think they both get something out of that relationship. And no, I’m not being dirty. 🙂 I think it could do wonders for his career to start choreographing for TV shows and music videos. Seems like it would be pretty lucrative. And I thought the parachute video was great – although you are correct, she’s definitely not a professional dancer and seemed a bit limp at times.
I really like Jonathan but he never really gets any good partners to be able to stay awhile. Maks is always good to look at Derek and Louis are great dancers also. I just like the originals and I hate when they bring someone new in.
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