Dancing Queens (and Kings)

I was tempted to blog about the rumored celebs for the new season of Dancing With the Stars 5, but I am glad I held off as a handful of the "leaked" contestants proved to be wrong.   

Here's the official cast for the new season and their professional counterparts -- who are probably more of the "stars" these days...

Melanie Brown (aka Scary Spice of The Spice Girls) with Maksim Chmerkovskiy

Sabrina Bryan (Disney Channel's "Cheetah Girls") with first-timer Mark Ballas

Helio Castroneves (2-time Indy 500 winner) with defending champ, Julianne Hough

Mark Cuban (NBA Dallas Mavericks owner) with Kym Johnson

Jennie Garth ("Beverly Hills 90210") with first-timer Derek Hough (Julianne's brother)

Josie Maran (Model/Actress???) with Alec Mazo

Cameron Mathison ("All My Children") with Edyta Sliwinska

"Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather (Boxing champ) with Karina Smirnoff

Wayne Newton (Singer/Vegas Icon) with Cheryl Burke

Marie Osmond (Singer) with Jonathan Roberts

Albert Reed (Model) with Anna Trebunskaya

Jane Seymour (Actress) with Tony Dovolani

My initial thoughts....

Cheryl Burke finally gets a crappy partner, I am sure much to the delight of former old-guy clunkers, Edyta and Kym. 

I predict Marie Osmond will be the wacky contestant ala Lisa Rinna and Leeza Gibbons.

Dancer-wise, happy to see the spunky Anna Trebunskaya (only on the show once and partnered with Jerry Rice) back and she gets a young male model, never heard of him before... but a quick google and here he is:

Cameron and Edyta should make for a hot couple, though it all depends if Cameron can move... for those not familiar with him as Ryan Lavery on AMC, here's a picture of him:

... and I am guessing Maks should be able to hang around for awhile with Mel B, ever the modest guy, Maxsim is offers up this screensaver on his website:

The season begins with a 3-night "event" ... the ladies on Monday, September 24th... the men on Tuesday, September 25th... and the results show, with Dolly Parton as the musical guest, on Wednesday, September 26th.   Future musical guests announced are Avril Lavigne and Gloria Estefan.

Comments

[Jeff]

Yay, thanks for the heads up. I will be watching! (Though it won't completely cure my recent withdrawal symptoms for "So You Think You Can Dance.") ;-)