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During last night’s Dancing With the Stars results show, two of the stars were sent home. Macy Gray, who just didn’t seem to enjoy the style of dance and Ashley Hamilton, who should be very proud of himself for being able to perform at all after he had been wheelchair bound in the past, were both eliminated.
It was an exciting kickoff week for the ninth season of the show and it will be fun to see who makes to the end and who goes home next.
Find out about all of this season’s dancers. Here are their bios.

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Tonight’s season premiere of Dancing with the Stars began with one of the hottest jive routines I’ve seen in a long time. It was all of this season’s male professional dancers and I just have to say that DWTS has some of the hottest men on TV! And Wow! Was it ever a fun dance!
Then we were told that the couples to perform tonight would be the male stars and their partners. Tomorrow night will be the female stars and on Wednesday night, during the results show, two couples will be eliminated. It’s a BIG week for dance on …read more

Here are the dancers who will competing in season 9 of Dancing With the Stars:

Natalie Coughlin: dance partner Alec Mazo
Mark Dacascos: dance partner Lacey Schwimmer
Tom DeLay: dance partner Cheryl Burke
Macy Gray: dance partner Jonathan Roberts
Ashley Hamilton: dance partner Edyta Sliwinska
Melissa Joan Hart: dance partner Mark Ballas
Kathy Ireland: dance partner Tony Dovolani
Michael Irvin: dance partner Anna Demidova
Joanna Krupa: dance partner Derek Hough
Chuck Liddell: dance partner Anna Trebunskaya
Debi Mazar: dance partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Mya: dance partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Kelly Osbourne: dance partner Louis van Amstel
Donny Osmond: dance partner Kym Johnson
Louie Vito: dance partner Chelsie Hightower
Aaron Carter: dance partner Karina Smirnoff

ABC has finally revealed the partners for the upcoming new season of Dancing With the Stars. I notice that Karina Smirnoff isn’t going to be competing this season. She has to get a wedding planned, after all!! And Julianna Hough is not on the list this time out either. She’s probably taking time off to promote her singing career. I hope they will both be back next season! And it’s good to see Anna Trebunskaya, Alec Mazo, Jonathan Roberts and Louis van Amstel back on the show. Louis did some really amazing choreography this summer …read more

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The number of dancers with injuries this season on Dancing With the Stars is at an all-time high. And Steve-O, in spite of his previous career being filled with him trying to injure himself in strange and exotic ways, has been no exception. He hurt his back and was unable to even perform live one week. Yet his many fans kept him in the competition in spite of it all.
But, we all knew it was time for his run on the show to come to an end. It just had to happen.
I am personally very happy to …read more

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Tonight marked the halfway point in this season of Dancing With the Stars. It’s becoming very clear who will probably make it to the final three and who will not. After tonight’s performances, I think it’s a slam dunk that Gilles Marini & Cheryl Burke, as well as Lil Kim & Derek Hough will be in the final three. My big indecision is between Melissa Rycroft & Tony Dovolani and Shawn Johnson & Mark Ballas. Those two teams are both very close in their skills and it will be interesting to see who does better as the season progresses.
As …read more

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What a night of performances this was! Tonight’s Dancing With the Stars gave us three couples tied for first place and perhaps a new lowest score ever…I’m not sure about that, but it’s got to be close. The injuries are continuing to haunt the Steves. Steve-O not only had a tough time with a painful back, but he also twisted his ankle at the end of the routine. Steve Wozniak still has the fractured foot, but now also has a pulled groin muscle to go with it.
There were also a couple of fantastic quotes this week too. Len …read more

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Tonight on Dancing With the Stars, we found out that yet another one of the celebs has injured himself. Steve-O had to go to the hospital, so poor Lacey Schwimmer had to walk down the big stairs alone. That means five injuries so far this season and this was only the second episode! We found out over the weekend that Steve Wozniak injured his foot, and Gille Marini dislocated his shoulder. I’ll write a bit about injuries and difficulty in ballroom dancing later this week, but right now I just want to emphasize how dancing is much more dangerous …read more

Here’s a great photo of Dancing With the Stars pro dancers Edyta Sliwinska and Alec Mazo walking away with a haul of swag. They were leaving Sunstyle Tanning where they picked up swag for the 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards. I think a lot of the rest of us wish we could just go pick up all that great stuff for some of those events…

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Fans of Dancing With the Stars pro dancer Edyta Sliwinska have a real treat in store. She’s going to be a guest star on crime drama CSI: NY.
The CSI: NY episode, entitled Rush To Judgement will air on CBS on January 21 at 10/9c. I suppose it was a fortunate thing for her last season to be voted off DWTS so early in the season. It left her open of film the show.
I’m looking forward to seeing her in CSI, since I don’t remember seeing her in a drama before. [I hope she's not the victim!!] I just hope …read more