Wozniak is a celebrity. He's not a star, but he is famous. Furthermore, I don't think he is a phony or a liar.

Melissa's parents flatly refused to meet Jason on the Bachelor, but later condescended to talk with him on the phone. They probably knew the whole thing was a set-up. And meanwhile, you don't become a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader by showing big horsey teeth. Those girls have years and years of dance and/or gymnastics training. It is no surprise that she only needed two days of rehearsal for a short routine. She knows how to count to eight. Even Maksim says it is unfair to the others that she is on the show.

Yes and no. Other contestants have had dance/choreo training too (the Cheetah girl, Mel, Lance, Joey, etc) and I think it will give you an edge for performing in front of an audience, but partnership dancing takes a different set of skills.

Somehow, I doubt dear sweet demure Maks would be protesting if he ended up with Melissa as his partner.

On the subject of Maks. Sweet? Not. Demure? Definitely not. Generally good for an honest opinion? Yes.

Agreed that partnering is different and difficult. But I warrant the Pros know how to tackle that issue. The difficulty for most of the "Stars" would be musicality, phrasing, memorizing counts of eight, stretching to their fullest, pointing toes and feet, graceful arms, hands and heads, not to mention agility and acheiving the very dinstinctive muscle mass that only dancer's achieve. She doesn't look like a dancer because she isn't one. Based on the shape of her thigh muscles, I would guess she has done pointe work.

Sometimes training helps, sometimes it actually gets in the way. Depending on how the body needs to move sometimes it actually takes awhile to untrain what you were training and get the new thing going.

I find that in T'ai Chi because I do a couple of different styles. One of my teachers always says my Hao is more Chow because I can't seem to get all the Chen style that I learned first out of it.

I will say that anyone that has to learn a routine or has done anything that really helps them be aware of body positioning is going to have some advantage. One of the reasons my personal trainer liked working with me is I know where my body is in space pretty well. A lot of people just don't have that skill and it takes a while to get them to figure out the left foot is turned the wrong way. If you don't have any idea what it is doing it is hard to self-correct it even if you know intellectually what it is supposed to be doing.

I kind of get the feeling that unless something directly benefits Maks he thinks it isn't fair.

I like him as a dancer, but sometimes he comes off a tad whiny in interviews.

Agreed, Max would be singing a completely different tune if he were paired with Melissa instead of his unbendable knock-off Barbie!