Now that we are watching the Olympics, I am looking at Louie and Apolo, and I just have to ask which athlete will be on DWTS next month? Lindsey Vonn? Shaun White? Seems like ABC may have purposely delayed the start of the new season in order to allow some Olympic hero to take the Dancing stage.

Won't be Lindsey, not with her bad shin.

I've read rumors that Johnny Wier, the ice skater, wants to be on DWTS.

Farmie

Well, it would make sense that if they're waiting for a Winter Olympian, that it be someone that would finish their event early so they could head to LA for DWTS training time........ so either Wier or White would make the most sense in that regard....... or someone similar whose Olympics are already finished......

Even somebody who's in the Olympics till the very end would still have 3 weeks of training time before they start. And they'd already be in shape so that wouldn't hold them back.

Would be about 14 different kinds of awesome.

Slice n' Dice's Sigpic Chop Shop 2004

If I were DWTS I'd ask Evan Lysacek, the guy who won the gold medal. Or Tanith Belbin, the beautiful ice dancer. But they might have obligations to some tour after the Olympics and might not be available.

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I read in Wikipedia that Evan tours with Stars on Ice, so I suspect that he won't be available. Too bad -- I'd like to see him on Dancing with the Stars as well.

ETA: And he's probably got the Worlds not long after the Olympics. So no can do to that.

http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/report-jon-%26-kate-star-kate-gosselin-may-be-dancing-with-stars-1017514.php

Can we hope that if she is on the show, she's partnered with Derek and takes him out with her?

How does a single mother with eight children have this much free time?

Super Moms get more hours in the day than the rest of us. It is easy to do 22 hours worth of stuff a day when you are really getting 36 hours to cram it into.

maybe they can get Octomom too...

Well, it does explain her fabulous new hair!

Does she have a secret past as a dancer? I hope not. I don't know how I'll be able to watch if she's on for more than a couple of weeks.

thanks Capn2patch

TMZ just brought up Chad Ochocinco

Why???

Why *sob*

Why does the casting director of DWTS hate me???? What did I ever do to them?????

*runs out of thread*

The casting directior hasn't been doing much for me either...... so far the only leak that I'm at least interested in is Pam Anderson..........

Chad Ochocino? *blech* Banish the Bungle!

She was seen visiting his trailer home. Wanna take three guesses why?

...

...'I made it up to see how many people would consider/attempt suicide on seeing it' is correct.

...well, it's an improvement over RussHell.

I'll say! Anyone would be an improvement over RussHell. Well, almost anyone -- I think RussHell might actually be an improvement over Brian from Thailand.

So if they're all confirmed that's 2 decent to good and 2 *twitch*.........

but not by much.

Well, that means it has to be Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin....... the other obvious choice passed away last year and would've been better served to be a musical guest anyways.....

Either way, expect a thread tomorrow denying he was ever cast for the show.

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DWTS contestants announced tonight

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2010/03/dancing-with-the-stars-2010-lineup-chad-ochocinco-pamela-anderson-and-more.html

FINALLY. Your participants are:

Pamela Anderson of "Baywatch" and rock star-marrying fame.

Chad Ochocinco (ne Johnson), Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver.

Aiden Turner of "All My Children."

Kate Gosselin, sans Jon and the eight.

ETA: Jake Pavelka, the Bachelor himself is the final contestant.
Shannen Doherty. Will she do better than ex Ashley Hamilton?

Buzz Aldrin, who's only the almost-original moon walker. Neil Armstrong took the first step on the moon.

Evan Lysacek, fresh off his figure skating gold medal at the Olympics.

Erin Andrews, ESPN hottie.

Nicole Scherzinger, alpha Pussycat Doll.

Niecy Nash, funny woman and ex-"Reno 911" star.

One more still to be announced

They should just give the title to Lysacek now. And I'm hoping the first three eliminated are Gosselin, Ochocinco & Pavelka. Overall, a bad cast of "celebrities".

Would I be a bad person if I said that I actually want to see celebrity injury carnage this season? Especially something leg related to OchoStinko? Preferably during the Finale (or at least after the NFL Draft) so that the Bengals would have a heck of a time replacing him this season........?

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Aiden Turner ("All My Children") is a great looking guy and an Aussie to boot. He's much better looking than Cameron Mathison from AMC who competed a few seasons ago. I'm looking forward to seeing him.

(Edited to correct that Aiden is British, not Aussie. My bad, confusing his character background with real life.)

Jake the Bachelor??? Aaack! Can't we get rid of him already?

DH is buzzed about Buzz Aldrin !

Have they announced the pros they will be paired with?

I've been cap'n'd

Heading out to search of pro pairings are listed anywhere.

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Professionals are supposed to be announced on Good Morning America this morning.

Only saw two couples announce.

Maksim--Erin Andrews
Tony-Kate Gosselin (long inteview with her. She has a dance floor installed in the basement and will practice there and commute for the shows.

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Managed to find the complete list on the GMA website:

Buzz Aldrin -- Ashley Costa (formerly DelGrosso)
Pamela Anderson - Damian Whitewood (a new pro)
Erin Andrews - Maksim Chmerkovsky (lucky girl)
Shannen Doherty - Mark Ballas
Kate Gosselin - Tony Dovolani
Evan Lysacek - Anna Trebunskaya
Niecy Nash - Louis Van Amstel
Chad Ochocinco - Cheryl Burke
Jake Pavelka - Chelsie Hightower
Nicole Scherzinger - Derek Hough
Aiden Turner - Edyta Sliwinska

I've been cap'n'd

edited because I can spell but apparently cannot type.

I went looking for it, but that was right after they said it would be there, so may not have been up, yet. Thanks for bringing it over.

I was so hoping Aiden Turner would be paired with Edyta!

Farmie <--- who is doing the happy dance

I was so hoping Aiden Turner would be paired with Edyta!

Farmie <--- who is doing the happy dance

Yep, DH and I are so excited to be able to root for the same couple!! He has a serious thang for Edyta. I want to see Aiden shirtless. It's all good.

I've been cap'n'd

I hope the guy doesn't have two left feet. That will seriously disturb my fantasy universe.

>I hope the guy doesn't
>have two left feet. That
>will seriously disturb my fantasy
>universe.

Not that it matters but he has a DJ background....so maybe he has some dance ability.

Farmie

Was Lacey replaced with someone? Or do they usually just have 11 couples?

They've been having more couples than this. I think this season is a bit shorter so they'd start after the Olympics (and have enough time to rope one in).

That's some big house, to have a ballroom dance floor in the basement.

(shurgs) So much for my assumption that Evan wouldn't agree to be on when he's on the Stars on Ice tour and would be heading to the Worlds -- he withdrew from the World team and he agreed. However, I'm happy to be proven wrong! Yiipppeeee!!!!!

BTW, I'm going to be voting for Evan when DWTS comes on!

Wow, I'm jazzed about the list of contestants.

And, not for nothing, but Derek is going to have his hands full!

I'll be interested to see how some of these contestants do. I'm thinking Nicole is a shoe-in to be a finalist.

Tom B announced on GMA that Brooke Burke is the new cohost to replace Samantha.

Well, unless they give her Sammy-bot's meds, Brooke should be a definite improvement........

so true

Definitely! Then again, almost anyone should be an improvement over Samantha!