DWTS: Who Will Take Home the Disco Ball Trophy?
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It's happy feet time!
With just a couple of days to go until the disco ball trophy is handed out on Dancing With the Stars, we thought we'd check in with some DWTS vets to find out what they think will go down when Mya, Donny and Kelly waltz as if their lives depended on it…
Uncle Sam Really Gives Aaron Carter Something to Cry About
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First Hélio Castroneves, now Aaron Carter. Dancing With the Stars has a curse, all right, but it has nothing to do with injuries.
Unless you count the damage done to one's bank account. And permanent record.
Just a week getting booted from the reality-competition show, Carter is on the receiving end of considerably worse news, this time courtesy of the IRS. Turns out, Nick's little bro owes Uncle Sam more than $1 million in back taxes.
Just think of all the Kleenex that could buy.
As it is, according to court documents filed last week, Carter's tax delinquency dates back to 2003, a clearly banner time for the cry baby pop star, as he's indebted to the federal government a whopping $965,284.97 from that year alone.
An additional $45,350.11 is also owed from income earned in 2006, making his debt grand total a hefty $1,010,635.08.
We don't care who you are, that figure's gonna bring on the waterworks.
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Aaron's out of Dancing With the Stars, but these four are still in...at least for the next few hours.
Semifinals Are Set on Dancing With the Stars
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Perfection paid off for Mya.
As expected, the R&B songstress was voted into next week's semifinals on Dancing With the Stars.
But which three of her fellow celebs were given passage to join her?
As musical guest Susan Boyle knows, being the favorite doesn't necessarily mean you're going to go all the way.
For instance, the fans have been loving Donny Osmond all season, but their last glimpse of him had him looking like a Rocky Horror Picture Show reject.
Aaron Carter has smoothed over most of his initial kinks but had to dance for his life last week. Kelly Osbourne has regained her confidence, but do the voters still have faith in her moves?
Meanwhile, though Joanna Krupa galloped through her quickstep, Derek Hough's impressive choreography made their futuristic paso doble encore worthy in the judges' eyes.
But was it semifinal material?
Maksim Chmerkovskiy: Kym's In, Karina's Out
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy and his then fiancé Karina Smirnoff made their Broadway debut last summer in Burn the Floor.
But Chmerkovskiy says producers have only asked him to return, which he'll do right after Thanksgiving.
The hunky hoofer says there's no way he would have gone back if Smirnoff was part of the deal. The two called off their engagement just days before they danced together on the Emmys in September.
"I wouldn't do it if she was asked back," Chmerkovskiy told us last night at the Sony Cierge event at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Instead, another one of DWTS' pros will be joining him...
Ballas & Hough "Sing" Before Two Are Booted on Dancing With the Stars
OK, we understand Mark Ballas and Derek Hough are totally into the whole music thing.
But they must know that we know from watching Britney, Paula and other pop-music makers that, if you're doing a taxing dance routine while performing live, you're probably not doing a whole lot of actual singing.
As we said, the Ballas Hough Band made a rousing Dancing With the Stars debut. We assume their song had words under all the spectacle.
Otherwise, Tuesday's show was another of those tense affairs, with two celebs headed for the door and everyone forced to prepare a dance-off-worthy routine just in case.
So there was Donny Osmond in his green sparkly jacket and Kelly Osbourne in her hot pink and leather...
Kelly Trades Beige for Bruno's Bon-Bon on Dancing With the Stars
Week seven and the going is getting rougher on Dancing With the Stars.
A few of the remaining celebs have flirted with the top, only to fall short of a committed, see-ya-next-week-same-time relationship.
Michael Irvin entered this week of competition hanging on by the hair of his footballs. Time is running out for Kelly Osbourne to recapture the potential she showed weeks ago before she started hemorrhaging confidence. And Mya just can't seem to get on Len Goodman's good side.
Did anything change this week? And what did Kelly do to get Bruno Tonioli up on the table like that?
DWTS' Karina Scolds Aaron for His Twilight Blunder
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Aaron Carter didn't exactly get spanked by Karina Smirnoff because he's lacking in the Twilight appreciation department, but she did give him a good talkin'.
Earlier this week, Carter got a lot of flack from Twi fans because not only didn't he do cartwheels for being compared to Robert Pattinson on Dancing With the Stars, but he admitted he still hadn't seen Twilight.
"I told Aaron, 'Don't put that out there. What if Rob does the next season of Dancing With the Stars?! I want him to come and dance,' " laughed Smirnoff.
As a little extra incentive for Pattinson, Smirnoff said she plans to watch Twilight with Carter as soon as the season is over. "Then we're going to tweet about Rob's great performance," she told us last night at the Genlux, Ford Models and Madison Kelly fashion party in Beverly Hills.
While we love our DWTS, we can't imagine Rob will be signing up for the show anytime soon.
Besides, Smirnoff isn't exactly lacking in the romance department…
Dancing With the Stars Still Less Than Perfect
The heat was on tonight on Dancing With the Stars as the nine remaining celebs hoofed for their lives in advance of Tuesday's double elimination.
First off was either a waltz or jitterbug, and the retro vibe continued with a Grease-style dance marathon, minus the hand jive, of course.
You could tell that Aaron Carter has been emotionally hurting from being in the bottom two, two weeks in a row, Mya is physically hurting from being tossed all over Dmitry's hunky shoulders, and Kelly Osbourne sprained her ankle last week. Melissa Joan Hart had to deal with taking a 7-point dive and Donny Osmond, poor lad, was saddled with the pressure that comes from entering the week on top.
And no one had scored a perfect 30 yet!
The contestants had no choice but to up their game or face the wrath of the increasingly contentious judges, not to mention the prospect of viewer unappreciation if they focused too much on fancy footwork and left their hearts at home.
At least there was one thing the judges could agree on—nothing.
Dancing's Aaron Carter Can Kiss Those Twilight Votes Good-Bye
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UPDATE: No surprise, but Aaron Carter has been getting a lot of flack from Twi-fans because he was less than enthusiastic when we asked him about being compared to Robert Pattinson.
"I DIDN'T MEAN TO OFFEND ANY TWILIGHT FANS," Carter just tweeted. "I'M FLATTERED THAT I WAS COMPARED TO ROB PATTINSON. IN FACT, IM GOING TO RENT THE MOVIE 2NIGHT :)"
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OMG! Aaron Carter is so not that excited about being compared to Robert Pattinson.
Just last week, Dancing With the Stars judge Bruno Tonioli gushed about the pop singer's performance with Karina Smirnoff: "It was a little like watching Robert Pattinson tangoing in Twilight!"
But when we caught up with Carter yesterday, he was rather blah about the whole thing...
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Mya Is No Miley Cyrus: "I'm Staying on Twitter!"
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Mya has no plans to pull a Miley Cyrus and ditch Twitter.
Even if it means getting tweets from men who are in...prison?!
"After our lambada last night, it was like, um, 'Oh jeez,' " Mya laughed earlier this morning during our exclusive weekly chat. "I didn't know they have Twitter in jail. The messages were off the train!"
Even so, she says, "I'm staying on Twitter."
I've got more Mya for ya. Read on to find out why she's kinda starting to ignore judge Len Goodman, what she wanted to do to Derek Hough's nipples last night and her thoughts about that rumored on-set showmance between Aaron Carter and Karina Smirnoff...
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DWTS's Mya: "My Body Is Torn Up From the Floor Up"
Mya and her Dancing With the Stars partner, Dmitry Chaplin, have a lot to live up to next week. Their high-spirited jive landed them in a first-place tie last night with Aaron Carter and Karina Smirnoff, with a near perfect score of 27.
They'll be dancing a rumba next. "I'm not sure if it can be as impactful," Mya says. "It's not a fast number, so…to actually entertain a crowd with a slower song, I'm not sure. I'm kind of nervous."
The rumba, however, is a much sexier and sensual dance. "Dmitry is not a hard person to look at, so that's very helpful," Mya says with a laugh. "You just put yourself in a zone and start thinking about crushes to try and get into the moment."
That's not all I have for you from Ms. Mya. Read on to find out about her DWTS-related bruises, why she's seeing a doctor on a regular basis and her new, carb-loaded diet...
Dancing With the Stars Cast Unveiled: No Paula Abdul, but Tom DeLay Tapped
The Iceman, the Chairman, the Hammer and the Witch vs. the Puppy Lover?
This season of Dancing With the Stars could get intense.
After weeks of buzz and rumors, the ninth season's cast is no longer a mystery. Emmy-nominated host Tom Bergeron appeared on Good Morning America today to reveal the record number of stars who will face new restrictions, "ballroom bloodbath" double eliminations and still-inevitable injuries in the hopes of waltzing away with that mirrorball trophy.
Paula Abdul won't be there (she won't be on So You Think You Can Dance, either, if Mary Murphy gets her say), and neither will Hills hottie Audrina Patridge or grieving sister La Toya Jackson.
But who will be sashaying into prime time in a matter of weeks?
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