Post Media Roundup After Dancing With The Stars Ending Finale Part 2 (Videos)
Our three finalists on Dancing With The Stars were also on Good Morning America today. They look a little tired after flying all night from Los Angeles to New York City, but, they are in fun and rare form as always. They also play a “Two To Tango” game about knowing their partners. More here including a special message for Shawn at the end. Keep watching the link, ABC may post more videos of them being interviewed, etc.. If they don’t and you need another way to watch them, you can watch them at Codebear’s Dancing With The Stars Daily Motion channel here.
Below is some coverage from ET Online as well. Tony and Melissa are so cute with their reactions on winning. Some of the other couples also have some special words for them….
Here is more with PopTVDotCom on the after party…
For part one of our media round up and if you haven’t read or seen it yet, see our previous posting.
ADDING: For their On The Red Carpet interviews, go here. Also, don’t miss reading this new Extra piece. Below is a take. Though I have to say I think Maks is so rude for what he said.
“I’m still in shock,” said Dovolani, who won the Mirror Ball trophy for the first time since he’s been on the show. “I’m holding it close to my body because I don’t want it to not be real. I want it to stay like this.”
Tony continued, “Fourteen seasons I waited for this. My wife was in the audience and it’s our anniversary today, 13th year, so for me this means so much.”
Fellow dancer Maks Chmerkovskiy was happy for his friend. “He truly earned it,” laughingly adding, “He deserved it from all those ridiculous partners he had. Whoever you are, you know who you are.”
Pro-dancer Derek Hough also hinted that this may be his last season on “DWTS.” He told Renee, “I’ll always want to be a part of the show. I love it to death. It’s been amazing,” but, “It feels like a good way to segue…”
In parting words, Dovolani, who has been one of “Extra’s” special correspondents, smiled, “You know what’s next for me professionally? That mic!”
It’s just a little bit irritating to hear the C bros and entourage talking about justice being done because Tony won, etc. They’re really caught up with things being “fair”. I have no problem with them being happy for him – they just take it a step further.
When the Ballas Hough FAM wins it’s not fair or rigged, but apparently when their FAM wins…it’s justice? Um, okay.
Anyone see Mark’s tweet about “My princess Shawn Johnson #mychamp #MyFam”
Smart boy 🙂
:lol
I love Mark when he’s being subtlety bitchy. Just a remark oftentimes speaks louder than a barrage of words.
Watching the interviews is very telling – people keep talking about how nice Tony is, and that it’s been so long, so he deserves a trophy, and how much they love him, and how hard they’ve worked; Melissa is barely mentioned (except for Tony thanking her for giving him a trophy, and saying what an amazing season it’s been with her); their dancing is barely mentioned (I think in one interview someone mentions that Tony upped his choreography this season) – this was truly mostly about the pro winning. Melissa appears to be just incidental.
Also, the C bro’s mindset comes through – apparently, they think this contest is about seniority. Val stated that given his time on the show, he got the place he deserved, and that Tony finally got what *he* deserved; Maks says something about Tony finally getting a trophy, and how he hasn’t had the opportunity before…he had Melissa before. He had Stacy. He had Audrina. He had a few other good dancers. If he had choreographed and presented his celebs anything like Derek does, he would have won before this. If Tony had had Derek’s celebs, I doubt any of them would have placed as well. He probably would have gotten Nicole to the finals – but Evan probably would have won.
And it *is* all about the fam – Kirstie states that it’s about time someone from Maks’ family won. Apparently she’s been indoctrinated.
If it becomes just about spreading the wealth among the pros, I feel bad for any future celebs, because it won’t matter what they do, they could be working their butts off for no reason.
If more and more of the C ‘family’ takes over the dwts cast as non-family leaves, I don’t think I will enjoy watching the show much at all because I don’t generally enjoy the dances they create. At least if you have to have that attitude, at least make some good dances! Sorry, had to say it. I don’t care for their attitudes, but I acknowledge good stuff when I see it whether I love the personalities or not. And all of the C family are the worst choreographers on the show….
“Justice”?? They are more stupid than I gave them credit for. LOL. I guess they do want it to be pee wee baseball. Pee wee ballroom rules say that Maks has to win next regardless of how many dances he choreographs that include umpteen counts of WALKING.
If the producers are smart, and considering change is probably due after 15 seasons and some pros leaving the show, they will find a way to use the C family as a drama draw. The classic- good guys vs. bad guys, but the opinions as to who are which differ amongst viewers. Something along those lines. The opinionated “pure ballroom” crowd vs. the “we are here to entertain crowd”. I think it’s telling that they asked Val to join in the first place. I can almost hear Maks whining about being used as a bad boy by the producers again.
If they change the show they can do it in 3 directions: more strict ballroom (which I doubt they will do out of fear of boring the audience), more creative dancing (which would perhaps bring them too close to SYTYCD) or more reality show. The third option kinda plays nicely with what I wrote in the first paragraph. I dunno, we’ll see.