DWTS Season 12, Week 7 – Who’s Dancing What…When?
Ah, time for the Team Dancings once again. 🙂 I usually like the team dances…we’ll see if this season holds up for me.
Also, once again, we have a random assemblage of dances which I assume is due to the stupid-ass theme weeks they keep foisting on us. This week it’s “Ballroom Greats” or some such thing. Hey, here’s an idea!! How about we have a week (or several) where you give the couples actual songs that go with the actual dances – and then everyone dances. Preferably one of two dances on a given night. How’s that for a “theme”?? :::rolls eyes::: We should be so lucky. I think once they start down the road to stupid, it’s hard to do a U Turn.
Anyway…who’s dancing what?? Oh, and I’d like to thank Louis Van Amstel for his big mouth and sharing “Team Ham” with us. 🙂
Ralph and Karina – Quickstep
Voting Number: 1.800.VOTE4.08
Kenda and Louis – Tango
Voting Number: 1.800.VOTE4.07
Chelsea and Mark – Paso Doble
Voting Number: 1.800.VOTE4.01
Kirstie and Maks – Jive
Voting Number: 1.800.VOTE4.11
Kirstie and Maks had fun up on stage at the Prince concert last night:
Romeo and Chelsie – Samba
Voting Number: 1.800.VOTE4.05
Chelsie with her family after rehearsal yesterday:
Hines and Kym – Tango
Voting Number: 1.800.VOTE4.03
For some reason, Louis called his Cha Cha team Team HAM. Why this makes sense, since the team consists of Hines/Kym, Kendra/Louis and Kirstie/Maks, I don’t know. Someone want to clue me in? 🙂
That leaves the other team consisting of Ralph/Karina, Chelsea/Mark and Romeo/Chelsie. Well. I dunno, based on choreography, I have to go with Team Ham – and I’d be okay with that, if we could switch Ralph with Kendra. 🙂 Based on past team performances, I just think that Maks, Kym and Louis have the edge, even if they don’t have the “best” partners, other than Hines. I guess we’ll have to wait and see how the judges are feeling this week and if they’re smoking high grade stuff or not. 🙂
As for the individual dances? I think Romeo and Hines are probably in good shape. Chelsea and Ralph probably are also, although more Ralph than Chelsea. I have a hard time seeing smiley Chelsea in the the passionate Paso. Kirstie and Kendra? Oh dear. For different reasons. I know it’s very hard to remember that Kirstie Alley is 60 years old, but 60 she is – and the Jive is hard. Kirstie is way older than me and I don’t know if *I* could do the Jive for 90 seconds. I’m hoping that several weeks of dancing has increased her stamina. As for Kendra – well, she’s a wild card at this point, but I think it’s safe to say that she better pull it off or she could be in trouble. But a Tango? Man…can’t see this one either.
There weren’t many (any?) pictures of the couples competing this week, so I’m doing a little update on those no longer on the show…for one reason or another. 🙂 Derek had fun at the UFC Fights in Toronto with some of his gang from Cobu 3D, including Allison Holker from SYTYCD and Napoleon of Napoleon and Tabitha who are two of the apparently several choreographers on the movie.
And I couldn’t resist this picture of Julianne and her babies in Miami for filming “Rock of Ages”:
Anna and Jonathan at the Race to Erase MS event the other night. Anna commented that they looked like they were at prom. 🙂
And you all recognize this lovely lady – Edyta Slwinska with the Willmington Baseball team’s Mascot; Edyta threw out the first pitch, apparently.
Guess which dancing family this little one belongs to. It’s all in the eyes… 🙂
I give up who’s the baby belong to????
I think its team HAM becasue all three can really ham it up for the audience. On a side note, Kirstie and the jive is a scary prospect. She seems winded after she dance a lot but teh jive is wayyyyyy faster than the other dances. Me thinks this is not going to be a good week for her lol. Group dance should be good though. This is probaly going to be/hopefully going to be kendra’s last week unless hse somehow pulls out all the stops and gets really good scores. I don’t think the tango is going to be a good dance for her unless she somehow adopts elegance wholeheartidly, whhich will never occur. She is beetter at the latin ones.
I know who the baby belongs to…. Not going to say. I will say that he’s the brand new nephew of a couple of DWTS pros, currently not on the show. And if you haven’t figured out who…. heehee… Baby is Quaid, and he’s #6 baby for his parents.
Cheryl was at Race for MS event as well.
Lacey, Dmitry were at Us weekly event
They do count
HAM = Hard As a Mother
As in “Let’s Go Ham”. Hines has used that term in a couple of interviews.
I should add it’s from a Kanye West and Jay-Z song.
Saw a video on Access Hollywood’s website where Hines explains that HAM is a term he uses for motivation. It stands for “Hard As A Mutha”.
Yes, I know who the baby belongs to also. Think of a family with blond hair, blue eyes and fantastic genes! Two of the family are very much missed on DWTS, but we’ll be seeing them on the big screen soon.
I know who the baby belongs to!! He’s the newest nephew to the best looking pros DWTS has ever seen! I love the one posted a few days before that where he’s sleeping beside one of his older sisters, Sky. 🙂 So sweet.
Take a valium, Maddy. I posted pictures I happened across on twitter, period. You don’t like it, start your own blog.
Oh, okay. Hard as a Mutha. Interesting. 🙂 These guys get wacky after long hours, don’t they?
Okay, with those hints everyone is going to figure out that that baby is the newest Hough nephew. Derek and Julianne have been tweeting lots of pictures of their nieces and nephews lately and they all have blonde hair and blue eyes. Derek’s tweet with this picture was “Don’t Mess…” The kid does look like a little prize fighter, doesn’t he?? 🙂
oh okay. hey heidi where’s the week 6 cheesecake awards? I need my cheesecake.
Paging Courtney – I finished what I could last night. Don’t know where she is.
Theresa, sounds like Heidi’s saying that the Cheesecake is still baking… 🙂
That baby is in no doubt a “HOUGH” baby! THOSE EYES!
I love all of the pictures. Anna should be a model. I love the dress she’s wearing.
I can’t wait until tomorrow night. I hope you are right about Team Ham having the edge Heidi!!
I can’t wait for the cheescake too!! 🙂
I’m here, I’m here…I’ll get cracking on the cake soon – I had girlfriend duties to attend to last night 😉
I’m hoping Hines does an absolutely stellar tango, and Kendra’s just pales in comparison – it should hinder the judges from overscoring her by too much (“should” being the operative word there). I also hope that there’s not too much of a points gap between Team HAM and Team other guys – I don’t want Kendra to get shielded too much by her team score. I think Ralph is probably gonna have a comeback week, Hines will do great, and the other 4 might struggle a bit.
Can’t decide whether having Donnie Burns as a guest judge is going to be a boon or a burden – I think he knows better than to try and score the couples as if this were a “real” ballroom competition (because it’s clearly not), but I do think he’ll be less inclined to sugarcoat the truth when couples truly do bad…so Kendra might not catch a break with him.
And Maddy, I think Heidi had a great idea about you starting your own blog…that way, you’ll be too busy to be whiny and argumentative over here when you don’t like what we’re posting. 🙂
IMO you missed the best part of the story. Hines and Kym were on stage with the other dwts pros and they were actually demonstrating some dance moves at the Race to Erase MS ball. They’re also the only dance partners who came together, not everyone was there, but the others like Louis and Cheryl came stag, Sugar Ray came with his wife, Chelsea came with her boyfriend. http://wireimage.com/ItemListings.aspx?cbi=21458&igi=497614&nbc1=1
Here’s a pic of Hines and Kym on the red carpet at the Race to Erase MS ball
http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Hines+Ward/Kym+Johnson
Oh and here’s Kym’s Twitter pic from the same event pretty funny, they’re pictured with Royal impersonators. http://yfrog.com/h7mssfbj
Thanks for all the great pics. Love all the family stuff. Good representation by the current DWTS cast at the Race to Erase MS ball. Since Hines doesn’t know many people in LA, it was sweet of Kym to ask him to escort her instead of having him show up stag. Speaks to the nice friendship they’ve developed.
Mary, next time, maybe consolidate it into ONE post instead of three.
@Courtney, in Mary’s defense, I was assuming that she posted things as she saw them. In some places, there is an edit or modify button, so one can edit or modify their post, after it’s already been posted. But, since we don’t have that here, when she wanted to share quickly, there was no choice but to post again.
Be that as it may, multiple posts in succession by the same author can be considered spam – and during times of high activity, it slows down the site and often makes it impossible for us as mods to even get in to post new stuff, which is highly frustrating. If we start letting everyone do the “Well I posted this comment and then found this and posted it and then I found something else as well!” defense, we’re going to get bombarded with it, and it makes threads like this hard to read. Everyone – if you think you’re gonna find stuff online that you wanna post, do it all at once. We will approve comments with multiple links (as long as they’re pertinent). We’re more forgiving of one, long comment than several short ones – it’s less burden on the site.
Would it be possible for an edit or modify button to be added to our own posts, so that multiple postings can be prevented, when one finds more stuff, it can be added? Me, personally? I don’t know the easiest way to save what I want, so that I can get everything here at once. Other than handwriting on a piece of paper, and hoping I transpose properly. I know how to copy and paste, but I don’t know how to ADD something to what I’ve copied. So, if I find several things, I have some trouble getting everything in one fell swoop.
Excuse me, but the “story” was who was dancing what. I added the additional info because I wanted some color in my post. So thank you very much Mary, et al (sarcasm intended) for the editorialzing, but you’re missing the entire point of the post. If you want to discuss story points, maybe it would be good to look at the title of the post. If I wanted to do a story about the Race to Erase MS, I would have done just that.
I concur – Heidi could have just put who’s dancing what in this post and left it at that. But she actually went to the trouble of culling some pictures from Twitter in order to make things more colorful & entertaining…a fun “FYI”, not a post specifically to inform everyone about the Race to Erase MS. And some of you (Maddy & Mary) have the nerve to bitch & moan that it’s “not enough”. Quite frankly, I’m getting fed up with some of the the complaining I’m seeing around here – “you didn’t do this”, “you should have mentioned that”, etc. For those of you that aren’t aware, WE DO NOT GET PAID TO DO THIS. Not one red cent. That’s what our real jobs are for – and sometimes, because of those real jobs, we don’t get into some of the “detail” that some of you seem to think we’re obligated to get into. Shame on us for having lives outside of this site. We do this because we enjoy the show so much, and like to provide a community for fans of the show to discuss it – not point out our perceived shortcomings and just generally pick fights. That sucks the joy right out of it for everyone. So if this site isn’t cutting it for you and your high standards – save the complaining and go start your own blog. No one is forcing you to sit here and read ours. I have no room in my life for a few ungrateful readers when we have hoards of wonderful ones who enjoy what we’re already doing.
Andie, that’s ONE. The next one and I will be sure to ban you FOR GOOD this time.
You know, Mary, I’m not often interested in the extended Hough clan et al either, but there are ways to put things. I enjoy the ‘added spice’ to these posts and I assume that the Hough and Hightower fans enjoyed this one particularly. Fair enough. I enjoyed the Maks and Kirstie. 🙂
But really, it might have been better had you just said something along the lines of…. Here’s more of the MS Event for those that are interested and added the links without calling Heidi to task for “missing the best part of the story”. It really does somewhat read like an editorial attack. The story IS who’s dancing what, the rest is just fun gravy.
Anyway, just my 2 cents. 🙂
Well said, Evaine 🙂 And often, if someone politely asks that we do a post on a certain topic, we’ll often do it – or at least consider it. I’m sure Vogue would have happily done one if Heidi & I didn’t have time. But if people come out swinging – we’re less likely to oblige.
Aaaand goodbye, Andie/Mary.
I get most of my best posts from the commenters, frankly. But I don’t need or want Andie/Mary’s form of bullshit. I’ve deleted a second post from her. Buh bye.
Is there anyone like me who’s thinking they might give the starting spot tonight to Kirstie & Maks? At least that way, Kirstie would have some time to recover from the Jive and get ready for the team Cha-cha. They wouldn’t do the team dances first, would they?
It’s what I’m HOPING for, Sally. That they schedule things so that Kirstie has enough time to regain her breath. Some might call it unfair, but hey, I’m a Kirstie and Maks fan! I would think it better for all concerned to have both Kirstie and Ralph have as much between time as possible. We do want to see good dancing, after all, right? 🙂
Mary, not sure I understand the attitude, but, I’m glad it’s disposed of. Geez, Heidi was just posting pictures to match her post. Why did you have to crucify her. Oh well, here’s to the show tonight all. It’s going to be fun!
@Evaine – I’m with you. It would make it more entertaining. If Kirstie is last, and the team cha-cha is right after, I just don’t see how she’d do it… like Heidi said, the girl is 60! I think she deserves the break!
Didn’t they do the team dance first when it was Team Apollo and Team Kirstie?? Or am I mis-remembering that?
@Evaine – I kinda wondered that too, but I think it might raise some eyebrows if they had her go first for a 2nd week in a row. Stranger things have happened, though! I also wonder if they’re gonna do what they did last season and have the team dances first, followed by the individual ones. It might allow Kirstie to do the team cha-cha without worrying about her teammates getting penalized if she’s too tired to perform at 100%. Then they might have her dance last, in order to recover for her jive.
On a side note…word on the street (or rather, Louis’ Twitter), seems to be that Team HAM has Ke$ha’s “We R Who We R” as their song. Not terrible, I guess…although I thought Maks also tweeted something vague last week that insinuated that they might have Kylie Minogue’s “In My Arms” as their song. Bah. I give up 😛 Too many riddles & ambiguous tweets to be sure.
That baby isn’t related to any past of present DWTS pro, Ellen Degeneres posted this pic of him and Derek did the same thing two days later because he found it funny… That’s not his nephew
@Courtney – I’m good with however they do as long as they give her some regaining breath time. 🙂 Team dances first might be good because everyone gets an even playing field.
And I just caught an Insider interview with Chelsea and Mark and apparently, their team spent the whole first night arguing and as team leader, she had to try and keep the peace. Chelsie, Mark and Karina. Two young choreographers and a very emotional one. Yeah, I’m betting there was yelling. *LOL* Somehow I see Maks, Louis and Kym working better together. Maturity? Maybe. I’m getting excited for tonight!
So, it’s just a coincidence that Derek posted a pic of a baby boy that is exactly the same age as his nephew, who he has also been posting pictures of on a regular basis?? Ummm….okay.
@Evaine – Oh, no! I’m sad to hear they spent that first night arguing. I was hoping the same thing as Courtney – that there wouldn’t be much of a spread between the 2 teams, giving Kendra the maximum opportunity to fail. 😉
This doesn’t give me a good feeling about that scenario.
@Sally – Remember, sometimes out of conflict comes genius. 🙂 (Althought I want Kirstie’s team to beat the pants off the other team… *g* And then Kendra can screw up her couple dance.)
Heidi – ” I’d like to thank Louis Van Amstel for his big mouth and sharing Team Ham with us “. LOOOOOOL! Excited about tonight!
Mutha is just street for Mother ” Am I stating the obvious? Story of my life…” Kind of like Partay = Party, Ionno = I dont know, What up home dawg skillit biscuit??? ( That one is kind of dead but yall get the point? ” = Hey, How are you? Im a total white dude but im from Mississisppi. You learn these things. 🙂
Ugh. I was hoping that everything would be harmonious on both teams, but I guess that was wishful thinking 🙁 Sucks that they wasted an entire night picking a leader – seems like it kinda mirrors the team paso doble in season 9, when Karina & Lacey butted heads and Michael Irvin broke up the fray. I don’t see Chelsie as the argumentative type (I could be wrong), but I could see two strong personalities like Mark & Karina butting heads…especially if you watch Karina in the video from season 9. Hopefully they can pull it together and come up with something halfway decent – because a large points gap between the two is only going to serve to protect Kendra, even if she does poorly on her tango. I’d hate to see Chelsea or Romeo (I think Ralph oughta be safe regardless) go home just because they bombed their team cha-cha 🙁
Then again, if my memory serves, only ONCE has the couple with the lowest combined score actually gone home during team dance week. Rick & Cheryl, Pam & Damian, Chuck & Julianne, and Susan & Tony were all eliminated during team dance week, and did not have the lowest combined score. So even if Kendra doesn’t get the low score – there’s still hope, historically speaking 🙂
Courtney, I could for sure see Kirstie getting pieved off at Kendra and Louis ( aka the lepracon from that old disney movie Lori’s kids use to watch and the Bratdoll on crack 🙂 ) and with good reason too. These too could bring out the little devil in Petra…
@Princess Heidi yes it is, I doubt Ellen would post a picture of Derek’s nephew two days before he does!
Yeah Kesha. Like it better than the other team song, not crazy about either. On another note, any Ritchie Valens fans out here?
Oh man Buttercup – if that’s another riddle, then I’m cringing inwardly. “La Bamba”? 🙁
“La Bamba”? “Donna”? Now see, that’s music I get. *LOL* Don’t quite get Kesha. I’m old.
Oh good. I love it when Buttercup comes in to gives us hints on Mondays. 😀 😀
Oh wow, I really thought that was a relative of the Houghs’.
I can’t wait for tonight!!! I love team dances 😀 I agree with the hope that Kirstie be given as much time as possible between the two dances, no matter the running order. I read about the argument in Chelsea-Romeo-Ralph team too, and got nervous about it. Vogue posted the interview I watched, and Chelsea just looked exasperated and was saying “please everyone get along….” I hope they still produced a kick ass dance.
On another note, Wow Chelsie’s Mom is prrreeetttyyy!!! She’s beautiful and looks so young! And Mom and daughter have the same exact shade of blonde 😀 Anna is stunning, as always 😀
Caroline – not calling you a liar, and it’s not that I don’t believe you (I don’t believe ANYTHING on the net, generally 🙂 ), but the problem here is that you are talking about DEREK. That boy, god love him, only figured out how to retweet late last week. He doesn’t know how (apparently) to tweet links. So you expect me to believe that he tweeted a random picture that Ellen showed on TV and said NOTHING when several dozen fans complimented him on his nephew?? This guy who’s in Toronto rehearsing all hours of the day?? I’m skeptical, particularly since he tweeted a pic of his nephew and niece just a day or so before that. We’re not talking about the most technologically savvy dude here – which is shocking, since he’s 25.
Zach, yes – you are stating the obvious. Which is okay, I’ve gotten used to you. 🙂
@Princess Heidi Yea I know you’re not calling me a liar it’s all good, i’m just saying what i saw, btw Ellen didn’t show that picture on TV she actually TWEETED it 2 days before Derek did ! (A lot of people also commented on Ellen’s picture when she tweeted it) so that can’t be Quaid, but I totally understand where you’re coming from, lol at Derek’s lack of technological skills
@Zach – I could see Kirstie getting annoyed with Kendra & Louis, but I doubt she’d let it show. She doesn’t strike me as the type to mince words about it – I think she’s got a very laid-back attitude about the show, which is good, and isn’t going to be the one that “rocks the boat” on Team HAM, so to speak. If anything, I think Kendra & Louis probably realize they’re the weak link on that team, and are probably content to sit back and let the other pros make most of the major choreographic decisions – I doubt they’ve been making a fuss about it.
@Heidi and @Caroline, I went to Derek’s twitter, and found pictures that we KNOW Quaid, and the one in question, that Heidi put here. And honestly, I can’t tell if the above photo is Quaid, or not!!! They do look very similar, but I just can’t tell. My mind wants to say that Derek posted Quaid’s photo, but I am suspect that Ellen posted it before he…
It really doesn’t say much about Derek’s technological skills if I am suspicious based solely on his previous inability to tweet links or retweet, does it? 🙂 That boy. <—-said with much fondness. Good thing he's so cute. 🙂 I am curious as to who taught him the fine art of re-tweeting. Napoleon? BoA? The other tap choreographer who's name I can't recall?? He also learned how to block haters and has been making good use of that function. 🙂
Why don’t the producers stop the vulgar, nasty antics of Bruno? His lying on the judges desk rolling around in such a suggest repulsive manner what the last straw for me. This is a first class, family show in Prime Time with millions of viewers, why is he allowed to degrade it week after week?
A loyal viewer.
Heidi, I love you, but Ellen did post the baby pic first (on April 26th) http://twitpic.com/4ptws5 and Derek posted it on April 28th http://www.mobypicture.com/user/OfficialDHough/view/9353209 http://twitpic.com/4ptws5