I wrote a few days ago about the new fitness videos from the SYTYCD dancers, but didn’t have a lot of info about them yet.

I got a lot more information for you about the new So You think You Can Dance, Get Fit titles. The dancers for each are some of my favorites and I’ll bet they are some of yours too. On the Cardio Funk DVD, the dancers are Courtney Galiano leading a Disco routine, Travis Wall leading a Contemporary routine and Lauren Gottlieb leading Hip Hop. And on the Tone & Groove DVD, the dancers are Stephen “Twitch” Boss leading a Hip Hop routine, Dmitry Chaplin (who is also a pro dancer on Dancing With the Stars) leading a Cha Cha and Katee Shean leading Jazz. They both sound like fun!

Both titles will be released on July 21, but if you pre-order (just click on the image to pre-order) them now, you can save some money. They’ll be shipped on the release date. No muss, no fuss.

The list price for each video is $16.99, but the pre-order price for each video is only $10.99…much cheaper than a gym membership. And a whole lot more fun!

Two of the professional dancers from Dancing With the Stars, Derek Hough & Mark Ballas have their own band. It’s called the Ballas Hough Band and they have a CD out called BHB.

This is their first single called Do It For You and it’s performed by the band, including a few shots of a shirtless Derek Hough. (Girls, get ready to swoon…)

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According to an article on BuddyTV, Dancing With the Stars’ season 8 dancer and runner-up Gilles Marini has been cast in the final season of the series Nip/Tuck. Once again, he’s going to be playing hunky man-candy, so it has to be a great enticement to watch the show, even for those of us who aren’t regular viewers.

Here’s a bit of a description of his type of role on the show:

“You don’t see me in the shower. You see me in a towel and you realize that I’ve just had sex and I’m coming out of the shower because I needed to be clean,” Marini described his sort of naked scene on Nip/Tuck.

The former Dancing with the Stars contestant will be playing the new husband (a much younger bad boy) of Vanessa Redgrave’s Erica—which means that Julia’s evil mama is definitely back!

It looks like being a part of DWTS has really paid off for Gilles! It’s great news too for his fans!!

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According to CelebSport, Dancing With the Stars pro dancer Julianne Hough has been offered a role in the remake of the movie Footloose.

Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford has also been cast for the movie, so it should be amazing!

Julianne has been spreading her wings far beyond DWTS in the past year or so. She’s recorded a country music CD and even won a CMA Award for it. She’s appeared in Wrigley’s commercials for their gum and now she’s hitting the big screen.

It looks like America’s girl is really doing great! *sniff* I’m so proud…

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TV Guide revealed that Dancing With the Stars season 8 finalist Melissa Rycroft has been hired as a summer special correspondent for ABC morning new show Good Morning America. She’s come a long way from being dumped by that loser on The Bachelor! I’ll bet he’s sorry now…

She was so impressive on DWTS, even after having only two days to prepare for her first performance show, that she ended the season in third place. Her fans will be happy to know that she’ll be making regular TV appearances now so they can continue to watch her.

I’m happy for Melissa and will keep you informed about her as new things develop.

Today, FOX announced the nominations for the 2009 Teen Choice awards. Several dance TV stars and shows have been included on the list this year. DWTS season 8’s winner Shawn Johnson is nominated, along with DWTS Season 7’s Kim Kardashian & Misty May Treanor. I’m very surprised that So You Think You Can Dance got no nominations this time out.

Here are the official nominations:

Choice TV: Reality Competition
“America’s Best Dance Crew”
“America’s Next Top Model”
“American Idol”
“The Bachelor”
“Dancing With The Stars”

Choice TV: Personality
Tyra Banks, “America’s Next Top Model”
Simon Cowell, “American Idol”
Lil Mama, “America’s Best Dance Crew”
Mario Lopez, “America’s Best Dance Crew”
Ryan Seacrest, “American Idol” / “E! News”

Choice TV: Female Reality/Variety Star
Teyona Anderson, “America’s Next Top Model”
Lauren Conrad, “The Hills”
Paris Hilton, “Paris Hilton’s My New BFF”
Shawn Johnson, “Dancing With The Stars”
Kim Kardashian, “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”

Choice Athlete: Female
Shawn Johnson
Nastia Liukin
Danica Patrick
Kerri Walsh and Misty May Treanor
Serena Williams

Choice TV: Female Reality/Variety Star
Teyona Anderson, “America’s Next Top Model”
Lauren Conrad, “The Hills”
Paris Hilton, “Paris Hilton’s My New BFF”
Shawn Johnson, “Dancing With The Stars”
Kim Kardashian, “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”

Vote for your favorites at www.teenchoiceawards.com

This is a totally fun video clip for fans of Dancing With the Stars! In it, the final four couples this season talk about being on the show while they do a photo shoot for TV Guide Magazine. We get to see them posing, being made up for the cameras and casually talking in between it all.

Be sure to stay with it all the way to the end, because Ty Murray clowns it up and has Chelsea Hightower giggling. It’s very cute!

After winning the 8th season of Dancing With the Stars, Shawn Johnson & Mark Ballas stopped to talk a bit with a correspondent from TV Guide.

Shawn says that the mirror-ball trophy feels like her second gold medal. Mark was obviously very moved by winning too. Even though a lot of people were upset that Gilles or Melissa didn’t win, Shawn has obviously got tons of fans because it was their votes that put her over the top. Check it out:

And it’s so amazing how graceful both Gilles Marini & Cheryl Burke were after coming so close to winning. Gilles said that it was fitting that Shawn would win. She’s 17 years old and he’s 33 years old. He wanted her to win. WOW! How cool is he?

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After last night’s amazing season finale of Dancing With the Stars, all three of the finalist pairs were guests on Good Morning America today. They danced for the crowds and showed off why they were the final three.

I found some great photos of them dancing on GMA, as well as a very cute photo of Shawn Johnson & Mark Ballas with their masks from last night. All I can say is that season 9 had better be fabulous, if it’s going to live up to this season…

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Last night was the exciting season 8 finale of Dancing With the Stars. I was honestly ready to see any of the three win it this season. They were all three amazing! Amid performances by Lady Gaga and all of this season’s dancers, we saw repeat performances by the final three couples. All three final performances were given perfect 30 scores by the judges, so it all came down to the viewers’ votes.

First, we had to see Melissa Rycroft & her partner Tony Dovolani get eliminated. Then we found out that Shawn Johnson & Mark Ballas were the seaosn 8 winners. Apolo Ohno told Shawn that no Olympian who made it to the finals had left without winning the trophy. She certainly took it to heart, because she danced fabulously!

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I’m not surprised that Melissa didn’t get as manay audience votes as the other two, since she is so new to the celebrity world. But after being the consistent leader all season and being as totally hunky as he is, I was surprised that Gilles Marini & Cheryl Burke didn’t win.

But overall, there were three of the most wonderful dancers ever in the finale this season.