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Dancing with the Stars Couples Take on the Jive & Quickstep
Originally posted 03/26/2012 09:40PM
Following what Len Goodman called "the best first show of any season," the celebrities and their partners returned to the ballroom to perform the quickstep or the jive on Dancing with the Stars on Monday night.
And the stakes are high: No one wants to be the first to go on Tuesday's elimination show, which will send home the star with the lowest combined scores and votes from two weeks of competition.
Keep reading to find out who was fabulous and who flopped in the ballroom ...
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Dancing with the Stars Returns with a Vengeance
Originally posted 03/20/2012 08:30AM
Dancing with the Stars is back on its toes!
A new round of ballroom competition began Monday night on ABC – and if the season premiere is any indication, it's going to be a hot one. "Without a doubt, this is the best first show of any season," head judge Len Goodman said after the night's final performance.
Keep reading to find out who took an early lead, but beware: spoilers ahead.
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Dancing with the Stars or The Voice: What Will You Watch?
Originally posted 03/19/2012 08:30AM
Song or dance? On Monday night, you'll have to choose between them.
The 14th season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, premiering Monday, will go up against NBC's The Voice, which was moved from Tuesdays to Mondays when its second season began in February.
Sherri Shepherd, Jaleel White, Martina Navratilova, Melissa Gilbert and Jack Wagner are among this season's DWTS contestants. The Voice, meanwhile, is in the midst of its battle rounds, in which celebrity mentors Christina Aguilera, Blake Lewis, Cee Lo Green and Adam Levine pit their protégés against each other as they pick their teams for the upcoming live shows.
It's a tough choice, but tell us below which talent contest most interests you.
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Carrie Ann Inaba Starts Web Show for Shelter Cats
Originally posted 02/28/2012 09:00AM
When Carrie Ann Inaba's 19-year-old cat Shadow died last October, she realized it was time – time to help other cats in need.
"His passing was a catalyst," she tells PEOPLE. "He was my best friend and had been through so much with me. After losing him, it made me realize that it's time to get involved."
It isn't that Inaba, a lifelong animal lover, hadn't been doing her part. Since becoming a judge on Dancing with the Stars, she'd become a celebrity ambassador to Best Friends Animal Society and had participated in a PETA campaign. Still, she felt like she needed to be doing more.
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Derek Hough 'Extremely Surprised' by Maksim Chmerkovskiy's Outburst
Originally posted 10/25/2011 11:25AM
Maksim Chmerkovskiy has a reputation for speaking his mind on Dancing with the Stars. But Monday night's verbal attack on judge Len Goodman shocked even Derek Hough.
"I was personally extremely surprised," Hough, 26, told PEOPLE backstage shortly after the debacle that went down when Goodman, 67, told Chmerkovskiy, 31, and partner Hope Solo – who received a total score of 20 – that they performed their "worst dance of the season."
"I feel like the judges have been incredibly generous," Hough said. "But we're all very emotional."
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Kendra Wilkinson: Carrie Ann Inaba 'Belittled and Embarrassed' Me
Originally posted 04/17/2011 08:00AM
Elegance is in the eyes of the beholder according to Kendra Wilkinson, not in the eyes of Carrie Ann Inaba.
"We have our own definition," Wilkinson told reporters following the Dancing with the Stars elimination on Tuesday, after Inaba said she seemed to be "afraid of elegance" during her performance the night before. "Elegance is what [my husband] Hank [Baskett] sees, not what Carrie Ann sees. That's what I care about."
The reality star admits that right after Inaba's comment, she felt "like giving up."
"Another woman telling me about elegance eats away at my ego," she said. "I'm a huge Carrie Ann fan, and she's [usually] so sweet, but that one comment – I felt belittled at that moment and embarrassed."
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Carrie Ann Inaba Wants to Marry 'Sooner Rather Than Later'
Originally posted 04/07/2011 04:05PM
She's the unflappable judge on Dancing with the Stars. But Carrie Ann Inaba was rendered speechless when her boyfriend of two years, accountant Jesse Sloan, surprised her and proposed last week on Live! With Regis and Kelly.
"I'm still in shock," Inaba, 43, told PEOPLE before Monday's episode of Dancing.
As reality sinks in, the Dancing judge will focus on the business of wedding planning. "I'd like to get married sooner rather than later," she says. "He's the right person, and I just have this feeling of let's just keep moving forward."
And although no date has been set, Inaba knows for sure that the wedding will include "dancing, singing and nachos."
Carrie Ann Inaba: Meet My Fiancé
Originally posted 04/05/2011 03:40PM
Newly engaged Carrie Ann Inaba had a feeling her fiancé was going to pop the question. But he still caught her off guard.
After Monday's dramatic Dancing with the Stars episode, the judge spoke with PEOPLE about her surprise proposal last week on Live! with Regis and Kelly, and introduced her fiancé, accountant Jesse Sloan, 39.
"I didn't know this was coming," Inaba said. "I had my suspicions because I'm a sneaky person and I'm always trying to figure out what he's up to."
Carrie Ann Inaba Engaged
Originally posted 03/31/2011 09:55AM
Talk about a surprise engagement.
Carrie Ann Inaba thought all she had to do was sub for vacationing Kelly Ripa on Thursday's Live with Regis and Kelly to discuss Dancing with the Stars.
But there was more: Inaba's boyfriend of about two years, Jesse Sloan, showed up – bearing a diamond sparkler and a wedding proposal.
The timing couldn't have been better. At the top of the show, Inaba had told Regis Philbin and the audience that the stories about her being engaged simply weren't true, though she had mentioned in an interview that she was anticipating a summer wedding.
Carrie Ann Inaba: Bristol Palin 'Could Be in Dancing Finals – Wow!'
Originally posted 11/11/2010 01:40PM
It's no secret that Bristol Palin isn't the best dancer.
Week after week, Palin, 20, has landed at the bottom of the Dancing with the Stars leader board. And, week after week, she is saved from elimination.
So if it's not her moves that keep her in the competition, what is the secret ingredient to Palin's performances that has America voting for her?
"Bristol Palin is somebody that I think most of Middle America and regular people can relate to," Dancing judge Carrie Ann Inaba tells PEOPLE. "A lot of people come up to me and say, 'I want to be on Dancing with the Stars. Why don't they have a regular-people version?' And I feel like that's what Bristol Palin is. She's a regular girl with normal problems and normal issues, and I think a lot of people look at her and see themselves."
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