It's kind of a W&C tradition that I "announce" the upcoming pairings for Dancing With the Stars. So while I don't have all the fancy graphics (yet), they are listed below... my initial reaction was that there was no one I was totally stoked about being on the show...
Aaron Carter with Karina Smirnoff
Natalie Coughlin with Alec Mazo
Mark Dacascos with Lacey Schwimmer
Tom Delay with Cheryl Burke
Macy Gray with Jonathan Roberts
Ashley Hamilton with Edyta Sliwinska
Melissa Joan Hart with Mark Ballas
Kathy Ireland with Tony Dovolani
Michael Irvin with Anna Demidova (debut, recall she won that 'be a pro next season' contest)
Joanna Krupa and Derek Hough
Chuck Liddell and Anna Trebunskaya
Debi Mazar with Maks Chmerkovsky
Kelly Osbourne and Louis Van Amstel
Donny Osmond with Kym Johnson
Mya with Dmitry Chaplain
Louie Vito with Chelsie Hightower
I laughed when one local radio personality here in Phoenix referred to it as Dancing With the Vaguely Familiar... and that's probably why there was some lack of excitement... there were a few that I likely could have picked out of a line-up (Joanna, Chuck, and Louie V)... and a bunch that I have heard of but not totally aware (Natalie, Mark D, Ashley, Melissa, Michael, Mya).
The good news/bad news is that I don't see any clear-cut favorites... Mya has dance ability (but as we're always told, ballroom is apparently a whole different thing), ditto for boy-bandy-ish Aaron... Donny certainly has the "performer" gene ... think the darkhorse is Iron-Chef's Dascascos with the martial arts physical ability.
But as I joked with Todd, the past couple of seasons it's been more fun seeing the pros who I think have turned into the "stars" on this show!
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