Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Next Season's Dancing with the Stars

Lately, I've been seeing snippets of speculation about who will be on the next run of Dancing with the Stars. Donny Osmond seems to be an Entertainment Tonight favorite and I also heard an interview with Marylu Henner where she stated that she would love to be on the show.

Here's my thoughts on those two: Don't invite either of them!

We've had enough Osmond exposure lately and frankly, if the show is truly to be fair, someone with the dance and musical background that Donny has should not be included.
And Marylu is just annoying in the same self-promoting way that Marie was annoying. Doesn't she have some dance/music in her background as well?

I've also heard rumors about Hulk Hogan, Celine Dion, and Katie Holmes! I think Hulk would be interesting, Celine would be boring, and I can't imagine that Tom would "allow" Kate to do this.

So, who would I pick? Well, I haven't thought about it really but I have some recommended criteria for whomever does the DWTS selection:

Select "stars" who are:
1. Humble about themselves.
2. Gracious (for the anti-gracious contestant, think Tatum O'Neil!).
3. Not constantly laughing uproariously at their own bad jokes.
4. Good listeners. This means they should not interrupt the people who are talking with them to make their own bad jokes (and see item #3) or hog all of the microphone time.
5. Not having any dance background (this makes it a fair competition).

I think that would do it for me. This season, actually most (not all) of the stars embraced these qualities. I thought that most were humble, funny, and gracious.

I'll just have to wait like everyone else I guess since ABC hasn't asked for my opinion...

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