Dancing With The Stars Season 7 Recap and More!

Maurice Greene and Cheryl Burke – Maurice Greene is a former Olympic Gold Medalist in sprinting, so you have to figure he’s going to be light on his feet, at least.

Maurice has a terrific outgoing personality that will serve him well.  His dancing, however, needs some work.  The judges were right. When he was by himself, he was great.  However, when he was in a hold with Cheryl, he looked somewhat stiff.  Still, as an athlete I’m sure he’ll train hard and there’s definite room for improvement.  I still only see him making it to the mid rounds, however.

Brooke Burke and Derek Hough – Tom Bergeron (probably the best live host out there, btw) introduced Brooke Burke as “The Hottest Soccer Mom on the Planet”.  I think he has a point.  She has FOUR kids and looks like that!  Amazing.

Usually model types don’t do well on Dancing with the Stars, due to the fact that they’re in terrible shape (being thin and being in shape are not the same thing).  However, Brooke Burke is IN SHAPE.  She owned the dance floor, and is a definite contender for that wretched mirror ball trophy.

Ted McGinley and Inna Brayer – Has dancing with the stars jumped the shark?  Has it nuked the fridge?  The spectre of Ten McGinley hovering over the competition cannot be a good omen.

However, old Ted did pretty good!  He obviously worked hard, and I thought he deserved a slightly higher score than the 18 he received.  He also comes across well in the other segments outside of the actual dancing.  We’ll see.

Lance Bass and Lacey Schwimmer – As a former boy band member, you have to figure Lance Bass, like Joey Fatone before him, has an edge up on the competition.

Hmmmm, I think you have to consider Lance to be one of the favorites to win the show.  He has a built in fan base from his N’SYNC days, and he has the shows X factor in Lacey Schwimmer.  This is her first time on the show, but her personality and aggressive attitude are absolutely incandescent.  Plus, she and Lance have great chemistry.  If it wasn’t for old fuddy duddy Len, their Foxtrot should have gotten the highest score of the night.  As it was, they still got 22.

Cloris Leachman and Corky Ballas – What can you say about Cloris Leachman?  82 years old and still going strong.  A class act all the way and full marks to her.  Nonetheless, the judges were generous with her, and she still only got a 16.  She was also a little over the top during the judges presentation.  She’ll be one of the first ones to go.

Jeffrey Ross and Edyta Silwinska – Jeffrey Ross?  I guess we’re through with the D list and now we’re onto the E list?  Jeffrey Ross?  Why can’t I be on this show?

Looks like I spoke too soon.  Cloris Leachman is going to live to see another day.  Jeffrey is like a less funny version of Adam Corolla with even less dancing talent.  He tried hard and also battled through his eye injury, but it is what it is.  He’s not funny enough to save himself.  I feel sorry for Edyta.  She’s a trooper, but it’s not her season this year.

Kim Kardashian and Mark Ballas – I was only vaguely familiar with Kim Kardashian.  I thought she was one of the Pussycat Dolls, but I was mistaken.  Apparently, she’s a reality TV star.  Attractive girl, let’s see how she does.

She and last seasons winner Mark Ballas performed a foxtrot.  To me, Kim seemed kind of heavy on her feet and tentative.  The Pink Panther music they danced to was pretty cool, but the whole performance lacked something.  I don’t think Kim is going to last very long in this competition, unfortunately.

Susan Lucci and Tony Dovolani – I don’t think soap star Susan Lucci is going to last very long.  She is just so thin, she has no strength in her legs, and it was painfully obvious in the dancing.  What’s worse, I don’t think her personality will help her with the non dancing segments.  I’m not saying she has a bad personality, but some people are just naturally likable and engaging.  Susan just isn’t.  Another candidate for early termination.

Misty May-Treanor  and  Maksim Chmerkovskiy – I always find it interesting to see who they partner with Maks.  He can be such a demanding perfectionist that I think he tended to intimidate some of his earlier partners.  This is why the producers only seem to partner him with really strong women who can match him.  In the past that’s meant Laila Ali and Melanie (scary spice) Brown.  This year it’s two time Olympic Gold Medalist Misty May-Treanor.  This girl is strong!  If she wanted to, I bet she could tear Mak’s head off.

They did a good Foxtrot, but Misty really attacked it.  I think she has to learn to back off a little bit and work on the grace aspect.  However, the potential is there.  Maksim may well be the most popular male dancer, and the audience often likes to pick someone in order to watch them improve.  I think Misty May will benefit from this.  I don’t see her going all the way, but I don’t see her leaving soon either.
Warren Sapp and Kym Johnson – I’m not sure why, but NFL players always do well on this show.  Something about their training makes them incredibly light on their feet.

Well, I just finished watching Warrnen’s Cha Cha, and he’s definitely a contender.  He’s a big guy, but he is So light on this feet.  He was able to match Kym step for step. What’s more, he’s a big teddy bear with an infectious smile and engaging personality.  No one’s going to want to see him go home anytime soon, and he won’t.

Well that was quite a dance marathon, but it’s shaping up to be quite a season.  There are many potential contenders, and few weak links.  Still, I’m betting on Jeffrey Ross going home tonight.  What do you think?  Comments?

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