Reality Roll Call

Contestants are injured so frequently on ABC’s Dancing With the Stars, you would think they were playing football the dancefloor. It’s like if you choose to compete on the show, you put your well-being at risk. This time, dancer Kym Johnson is on the injured list.

Kim injured her shoulder somehow, but she will still be able to dance. According to TMZ, there is no word on the exact nature of the injury, but it may require surgery. 

Next season all dancers will be wearing custom knee and elbow pads, and protective headgear. Mouthguards are optional.

Here’s something to put on your Christmas list: The necklace that reality show star Kim Kardashian wore in her December 2007 Playboy magazine layout will be up for sale on ShopStyleFolio.com The necklace will go on sale on October 6th at 8 AM, and it will only set you back $3,500. Best of all, shipping is free!

Yvette Craddock, ShopStyleFolio.com Founder and Style Director, states, “According to its designer Sherri Jennings, this necklace is the only one of its kind. It will be part of the www.ShopStyleFolio.com ‘Pop & Print’ collection.”

According to Ms. Craddock, “This necklace’s distinct beauty captured my eye. Only after my purchase of it did I hear the rumor about Kim Kardashian wearing it in her Playboy pictorial. I have confirmed that the rumor is, indeed, fact. The necklace is made of vintage filigree pieces in brass then finished in an antique gold. All of the stones are vintage European. It is definitely a piece that a sexy, confident woman will wear well.” Or a woman who does sex tapes and Dancing With the Stars.

Fancast announced that two-time “Dancing with the Stars” winner and recording artist Julianne Hough will be blogging exclusively on the site each day following the bi-weekly airing of the show.

Hough will share her thoughts on the seventh season competitions, and reveal behind-the-scenes views of the hit ABC show. She had this to say in her first post about Monday’s season opener:

“I thought [Cody Linley] was awesome. I was extremely happy. In rehearsal he was good, but he knocked it out of the house [Monday] night. As far as the scores, I would’ve thought the performance should’ve got 7’s instead of 6’s. But we were the first ones out. And it’s okay. The thing is, we’re right in the middle. We aren’t at the bottom and we aren’t at the top, which gives us room to grow. My season with Apollo was the same thing; we were right in the middle. The judges don’t want to see you to [sic] come out too strong and not have any room for improvement. They want to see improvement.”

When you put the phrase “passed over” with the name of someone as old as Cloris Leachman, there’s always a chance that someone will think you are writing an obituary. Today this is not the case.

It seems that the always funny Cloris Leachman had to practically beg to get on Dancing With the Stars, because they thought she was too old. Leachman, who is 82 years old, wanted to do the show for quite some time, and had her people call the producers at least twice to secure her a spot on ABC’s hit reality show, but they turned her down, citing her age as a factor. Cloris will be the oldest contestant to date on Dancing With the Stars, and if you really want to get technical, the oldest person to ever do a reality show, beating out Big Brother 10’s Jerry MacDonald, who is 75 years old.

Andrew Baldwin is a very busy man. This weekend he was spotted with Dancing With the Stars’ Karina Smirnoff at the Palazzo Hotel in Las Vegas. Witnesses saw the pair by the pool at the hotel, being very affectionate. Smirnoff just recently broke up with Mario Lopez, and Baldwin was dating Marla Maples earlier this year.

Former Spice Girls star Mel B and her husband Stephen Belafonte are hoping to turn American Pie actress Shannon Elizabeth into the latest U.S. reality TV star.
The new couple are developing a series with Elizabeth and dancer boyfriend Derek Hough through their Osirs production company.
The actress and Hough met and fell in love when they were paired up on TV show Dancing With The Stars, the contest show that once featured Mel B.

According to People.com, the bed and breakfast used to film the Oxygen reality show Tori and Dean: Inn Love is one of the structures at risk of destruction by the raging wildfires in California.

Chateau La Rue, the newly renovated bed and breakfast owned by Tori Spelling and her husband, Dean McDermott is located in Fallbrook, which is 100 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The town was evacuated.

Tori and Dean were at Dancing With the Stars last night, cheering on their friend and castmate Jenny Garth.

Last night on ABC’s dance competition reality show, Marie Osmond fainted while awaiting the judges scores for her dance performance. Fortunately, it wasn’t serious.

The former pop star of the 1970’s and Donny’s sister explained and, “Once in a while it happens to me, when I get winded…I stop breathing.” I’ve also found that the reverse is true for people: when they stop breathing, they get winded. So it works both ways.

Marie’s final score was 21 points out of a possible 30. So much for the fainting sympathy vote…

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Country superstar Billy Ray Cyrus and his daughter Miley will be performing “Ready Steady Go” together on this Tuesday’s Dancing With the Stars. Both can be seen on Hannah Montana on the Disney channel.

Dancing With the Stars contestant Jane Seymour will miss this week’s show due to the passing of her mother due to complications from a stroke she suffered earlier in the year. Seymour’s mother, Mieke Frankenberg was 92 years old.

Seymour has said that she was thrilled to be participating in Dancing With the Stars, because it was her mother’s favorite series. No word yet on when she will return to the show.

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