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Dancing With the Stars' Mya: What She'd Do With the Disco Ball Trophy
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What does one do after spending about 14 weeks working on Dancing With the Stars?
Get some much needed rest.
"I definitely need a break to allow my ankle to heal properly for about a couple of weeks," Mya told me earlier today during a break from rehearsing tonight's finale.
Mya and partner Dmitry Chaplin proved last night why they are this season's best dancers. They nabbed two perfect scores for their paso doble and the megamix, and a 27 for their Hairspray freestyle.
And Mya is also fun to talk to—no matter how tired she may be. I'm going to miss waking up to her voice every Tuesday morning. Read on for the last of our exclusive weekly chats.
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…
Derek Hough Goes Into Hyde-ing After Elimination
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Life goes on for Derek Hough.
Although he and Playboy model Joanna Krupa were given the boot last night from Dancing With the Stars, it didn't stop stop him from enjoying the rest of the evening.
The 24-year-old professional hoofer hit the Asics record release party for Leona Lewis' new album, Echo, at West Hollywood club Hyde.
Clad in a black leather jacket, Hough showed up at about 11:30 p.m. and hung out and laughed in the club with a couple of guy friends.
Lewis, who performed on DWTS' elimination show despite suffering from a throat infection, arrived just before midnight...
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Dancing Mya's Butt: Best Friends With Len Goodman
Mya definitely wants to make it to next week's Dancing With the Stars finals, but she's also kinda looking forward to the day when it all comes to an end.
"I'm very nervous because if I make it to the finals, we have four dances next week," Mya told me earlier today. "It's going to be another hell week, and our bodies are so broken down."
But not so broken down that it prevented her from coming in first place last night with an 87 out of a possible 90 between three different dances. But the best part has to be that she and her partner, Dmitry Chaplin, have really won over Mr. Grumpy Len Goodman.
Read on to find out what Mya thinks about Len admiring her backside, the possibility of Dmitry going completely shirtless and why she needs to watch the Real Housewives of Atlanta.
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Dancing's Mya: I Can Eat Whatever I Want...for Now
Sure, Mya and Dmitry Chaplin grabbed a perfect 30 with their '70s-themed samba on last night's Dancing With the Stars, but the singer says Donny Osmond was the real star of the night.
"Donny and Kym Johnson rocked the house," Mya told me earlier this morning. "It was hilarious with Donny and his Jheri curl. He was like Michael Jackson, George Michael, Prince and Boy George all wrapped up in one."
But Chaplin's mustache also made quite the impression. Read on for more of this week's installment of my exclusive morning-after chats with Ms. Mya…
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Kelly Osbourne: Why I Won't Weigh Myself
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Kelly Osbourne may be looking better than ever (have you seen her waist lately?!), but that doesn't mean the Dancing With the Stars contender ain't eatin'.
"For the first couple of weeks, I was like, 'I need spaghetti Bolognese!' And that is what I ate every single day," Osbourne, 25, says while sitting in a Hollywood dance studio with her pro partner, Louis van Amstel. "Now, it's chicken quesadillas. I love the carbs from the cheese. But I have to stop eating it, because it's starting to make feel sick because I'm eating it so much."
Even with her shrinking waistline, Osbourne hasn't been quick to jump on a scale…
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...
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Dancing's Mya: I'm Not Mad at Len Goodman
It seems Len Goodman has it out for Mya and Dmitry Chaplin. Week after week, the resident grumpy judge of Dancing With the Stars always finds something wrong with their performance.
But Mya isn't letting it get to her. "If I fell on my face I might be embarrassed, but I'm happy and proud of myself for coming this far," she told me this morning. "I don't care what other people have to say."
Besides, Mr. Goodman isn't Mya's biggest concern right now—the flu is! It's already struck Derek Hough, Mark Ballas and Lacey Schwimmer. Donnie Osmond also talked last night about feeling a bit under the weather.
Yikes!
Find out what Mya has to say about staying healthy, meeting Cloris Leachman and next week's plan to perform two dances.
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Derek Hough: I'm Not Gay, Though I Almost Played One on TV
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It's good to know that Derek Hough can laugh at all those rumors that he's gay.
So much so that he was thisclose to playing a gay character "in a funny little scene" with Courteney Cox on her new hit ABC series Cougar Town. Unfortunately, he couldn't do it because of his Dancing With the Stars schedule.
"It would have been perfect," Hough said. "With all the rumors going around, I thought it would be really funny because it's just not true. But I was like, you know what? If that's what you want to see."
Not so funny, however, was Hough's recent battle with the flu...
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…
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Dancing's Mya: "Dmitry's Been in a Lot of Pain"
Mya and Dmitry Chaplin knew going into last night's Dancing With the Stars that they probably wouldn't be getting a perfect 30 for their jitterbug.
They correctly predicted that judge Len Goodman would have a problem with Mya's feather-dusting and Dmitry's sweeping at the start of their performance.
"We were like, 'Oh, well!' " Mya told me this morning during our weekly exclusive morning-after chat. "Last week they said we lacked character, so this week we gave them characters. It was, Let's do a little bit of acting for the audience and people at home."
That's not all I have for you from Ms. Mya. Read on to find out why Dmitry is in pain, what's it like meeting Michael Jackson's mother and why the group dance-off at the end of the show almost left Mya hurlin' her cookies.
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...
