Dancing With The Stars Rumor: Tonya Harding To Dance In The New Sports Edition?
EEk! I really hope the show won’t go there. Read on for more and let us know what you think in comments if true?
"Don’t be surprised if you soon see Harding alongside other has-beens on 'Dancing with the Stars'" https://t.co/ucW7wU32C2
— Page Six (@PageSix) January 9, 2018
NO! Just NO!
I still think this 4 week season should be a Mini All Stars with runners up. At least they already know how to dance. With all new people, what kind of quality dancing will we see when it is such a short season. Will they have a longer pre-season rehearsal schedule? They better be prepared for disastrous ratings. Or are they planning to fill the cast with controversial athletes to draw attention?
Couldn’t agree more, Linz, on everything you wrote! I really love the idea of a mini all stars! I mean…why do it for 4 weeks if it’s not special in some way?
Absolutely agree!! This 4 wk athlete season just doesn’t make sense to me-is it just something to wet our palette and keep us contented b/c they couldn’t put together a true, full season? If that’s the case, why bother? I’m not interested personally.
But I wouldn’t be surprised AT ALL if Tonya Harding was interested in doing it or if they’re after. LOL Especially after this movie and especially since the DWTS producers are gonna want ratings.
This may backfire on the show. Just trying to book controversial “stars” isn’t the current audience that watches the show. If this is what they have in mind, it is being made into a tabloid show and that is a very different type of audience.
I think I could almost guarantee that they would be trying to get Tonya to dance. She’s exactly that “type” they go for. Making headlines (positive or negative) and an athlete.
Ok so on one hand I kinda want to see her on the show…not that I condone what went down with all of that. I actually feel like she wasn’t punished enough for what she did but that’s another thing about her that drive she me up a wall. She could be interesting. Or a complete trainwreck….which leads me to what I think she will end up on becuase I don’t think it will Be dwts. I think she would be good on celebrity big brother since they need all the help they can get since its the first season and they need to drum up drama.
Hit submit too quick. If She is on the show this upcoming season it’s going to be one hell of An uphill battle for her to be frank. She could be great for all we know but I don’t think the voters will want to see her win anything. They would be probably better off not putting her on the show but like I said if she is in the cast….well I’d bet money she would be an early out.
This is just wrong on so many levels. I hadn’t planned to watch the 4 week athlete season anyway, but some of the athlete names being tossed out ensures I won’t be watching. Most of my friends won’t be either.
After all the attention she’s getting for the movie, I wouldn’t put it past the producers to ask her to be on the show. I do think it’s kind of a jerk move considering they had Nancy on last year and I felt that the producers also gave her some unpleasant edits. I really wanted Nancy to make it further but I hated how they showed her rehearsal packages and the questions they would ask her. Tonya will probably be a train wreck though since, despite “moving on” she still brings up the topic and Nancy has been trying to move on and forget it.
Oh please NO! I don’t want to see that disaster on the show. Nancy Kerrigan did the show with grace. Let her have that. Bringing her on would be another slap in the face to Nancy. I’m not a fan of the movie, I will not see it, and I don’t understand how she’s being portrayed as the poor little misunderstood ice skater. She said she heard talk of “taking out someone” but when that happened to Nancy, I don’t believe her when she says she didn’t think of that conversation. She knew.
@Linz, agree with you 100%. Having runners up would be fantastic. They would know how the show works, know the dances and viewers could actually get a good 4 week show. But I doubt if they’ll do it. I don’t want to see this ruin the show. The manipulation and favoritism that goes on now makes people upset but it is still an entertaining show that I look forward to watching every week.
I wish it had it’s normal spring show instead of being bumped for American Idol. I was a fan of that show for the first few years it was on, but it got old and when it was cancelled, it should have stayed that way. Just my opinion.
I love figure skating but I think they have too much of an advantage. I don’t want to see Tonya or any other figure skater’s on DWTS.
If DWTS gets Tonya Harding, I won’t watch. I agree with what Cindy says that bringing her on would be another slap in the face to Nancy.
I believe Tonya Harding knew what was going on and should not be portrayed as a victim. DWTS is really scraping the bottom of the barrel if Tonya is on the show.
Mini All STars- ok, love it as long as we get to see Katherine Jenkins, Hinch, Ryker, and Lindsey Stirling dance! Amy Purdy, too
I agree that the producers could go with the “publicity” Tonya could create. And, some of these rumored possibles for this Athletic Mini Season could give the show what they want most.
I agree with PH. Even without seeing her comment, I would totally expect the DWTS producers to ask Tonya Harding to be on. I bet they tried to get her to be on in the same season as Nancy Kerrigan but they’ll be even more interested in booking her now. But I expect, Tonya is looking around for who will offer her the most $$$.
I also agree 1000% with Linz!
I’d be more surprised if they don’t ask her, honestly. I feel the same way about her as I did with them casting Lochte- I’ll withhold judgment and see how it turns out. A lot of people said they’d stop watching then, and he ended up being a pretty great contestant IMO. There are people I’d rather see them cast, but she makes a lot of sense.
Hit send too soon:
I wanted to add that the problem with this season is its so short that people that are 1. not in good shape or 2. controversial/closed off- will be at a disadvantage. For instance, it seemed to take someone like TO a while to delve into the show and for people to get fully behind him. Competitors this season won’t have that time (or the ability to shape their stories in the same way).
If they’re looking for controversy, then they’ve found it! Don’t think it will happen but it depends on how desperate everyone is!
If they want to sink that low to have Tonya on the show I hope she gets booed more than Ryan Lotke!
What a classless move that would be from DWTS. And a slap in the face to lifelong DWTS fan and one of the most gracious contestants we’ve had on the show in recent seasons Nancy Kerrigan. Unfortunately DWTS throw all the class it had out of the window a long time ago.
No interest in seeing her and milking the drama yet AGAIN.