I love reality shows and so I'm ALL caught up in this Dancing With The Stars fiasco. I've seen some pretty unfair crap on that show in years past but this year takes the cake! I immediately picked Audrina and Tony to vote for but was shocked to see David Hasslehoff ousted first. Clearly he wasn't the worst. Then there was the whole Michael Bolton/Bruno debacle, which to me was a bit over dramatized by Bolton because please! You start your dance crawling out of a dog house with a bone in your mouth, you are asking to be trashed but Bruno was unnecessarily harsh. Right off I could see who was going to be good, who was going to be entertaining, and who needed to get the heck out of there and find a new hobby. I wasn't impressed with Jennifer Gray because she was clearly a front runner but dang! Want some cheese with that whine???? I thought her Patrick Swayze breakdown was a bit contrived and I understand she's had some major surgeries and she's 50 but clearly she's no amateur so right off I thought that was unfair. Brandy is a singer and actress, but singing talent and dancing talent don't go hand in hand. Plus I always give kudos to those who can survive Maks. Even though he's HOTTTT and one of my faves, he's certainly no picnic. Margaret Cho wasn't going to go far and quickly learned it wasn't a comedy thing after the first show. I had no feelings one way or the other for pro basketball player Rick Fox or pro football player Kurt Warner. Florence Henderson was pretty good and entertaining same with Kyle Massey.
The second really WRONG and SHOCKING elimination was Audrina. She'd had a bad couple of weeks but to me it seemed more Tony's fault for the choreography. She had been at the top of the leader board consistently and Bristol Palin clearly sucked. The judges were shocked as well. My kids like Kyle because he's on the Disney Channel plus he's fun and doing his best but he'd slipped back a but. Kurt wasn't the best or worst and Rick was steadily improving. The best part about Rick was when Cheryl chided him on his lack of grace especially in the foot work. She asked if he was that bad on the basketball court and he laughed. Apparently he's notorious for it and thus has the nickname "Tank" or something like that. HE was in my opinion the best in working to improve. At one point the stars were split up in a team dance with Apolo Ono and Kristi Yamaguchi. Rick's score suffered because of being teamed up with Bristol and Kyle giving Kurt an edge and Rick went home.
Now here we are, stunned by the upset of Brandy being sent home and Bristol in the finals. Bristol Palin is the finals of a dancing show is like Sarah Palin in the running for Vice President. Totally unqualified and flat out insane. How is she getting all those votes? Some of her more mentally unstable fans explain how they are doing it here: Jezebel.com
One good thing to come out of this experience is a public service message with The Situation from Jersey Shore. It plays more like a spoof because Bristol is clearly a grenade. Also, his message is better because aside from teen pregnancy hpv is a real issue and like it or not abstinence will often fail and pregnancy isn't the only danger. My doctor has diagnosed a 13 and 14 year old girl with cervical cancer.
I'm thinking that the Palin family is going to take over my reality show world. Bristol will be on Biggest Loser next, Willow on 16 and Pregnant. Todd and Sarah will be on The Amazing Race but without passports and they keep ending up in Russia.
Bristol is a busy girl. Being a teen advocate for abstinence is a full time job though she does find time to tag team with her sister Willow on Facebook. People act shocked by the gay slurs. I'm not. They are conservative wingnuts. Sarah shoots homosexuals from a helicopter when she can't find wolves. I'm more surprised by the openly foul language. Is this family the WORST examples for everything ever???
Here's my take and I may add more later: Bristol isn't a teen so she can't be considered a teen advocate. What they did approached bullying which is a serious matter. Bristol finds the competition unfair because some of them have experience.I find it unfair because she's not a star.
*More later*
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