Dancing with the Stars Couples Announced

Posted By: admin On: February 13, 2009 Comments: ( 2 )

This should be called couples editions of Dancing with the Stars. We’ve got Julianne Hough and her real life boyfriend in the line up. Jewel competing against her hubby and Karina Smirnoff facing off against her fiance, Maksim Chmerkovskiy. It’s gonna be a crazy season, folks.

Before I start, I have to say that Bridget will not return this season due to a busy schedule and recovering from surgery. We wish Bridget well and hope to see her back next season. Guess that means you are stuck with me, Alyssa, your wonderful blog owner.

First off, for all those always wishing Julianne would be in a romance with her dance partner (you know who you are, Julianne and Apollo fans or Julianne and Helio fans), you get your wish. Julianne Hough is partnered with her real-life beau, Chuck Wicks. I guess the producers listened to all of you and gave you just what you wished for - a real romance with Julianne. We’ll see how well they work together because you know Julianne is all business on the dance floor. I’m shocked to even see she’s back this season because she said she wasn’t coming back so she could work on her music career. Guess she couldn’t allow someone else to partner her country boy.

Edyta Sliwinska is partnered with yet another NFL’er and another one with the last name of Taylor. How ironic is that? She’s partnered with Lawrence Taylor. Will Edyta finally pull out a win or will she poke Lawrence in the eye and take him out too?

Cheryl Burke is partnered with actor, Gilles Marini. No comment for these two because I have no idea who Gilles is.

Derek Hough will be defending his title with rapper Lil’ Kim. Wonder if Lil’ will put Derek in his place this season and now allow him to talk to her the way he talked to Brooke and Shannon Elizabeth. For those of you wondering, him and Shannon are still together.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy is paired with Denise Richards. That could be some spicy stuff going on between these two OR not! Denise could be another Kim Kardashian and we know what happened there.

Jonathan Roberts is back and partnered with Go-Go’s singer Belinda Carlisle. I liked Belinda when I was a pre-teen so I’m anxious to see how she does.

Shawn Johnson is paired with Mark Ballas. I think this is a good pairing here, however, I’ve seen Shawn do her gymnastics routines and it is pretty stiff. I’ve also seen her live and still the stiffness occurs. She seems to be shy and have a hard time coming out of her shell. Mark failed in getting Kim Kardashian where she needed to be - let’s hope he has some new tricks for Shawn.

Jackass star Steve-O is partnered with Lacey Schwimmer. This was a no-brainer b/c Lacey can be pretty off the wall. Steve-O is as off the wall as one can get. Ever seen Jackass? All I know is she will need to tame his crazy self because I already know Len doesn’t like them. LOL!

Jewel is partnered with new professional Dmitry Chaplin. Fans of So You Think You Can Dance will remember Dmitry from season 2. He also has a familiar dance coach - Louis Van Amstel.

Jewel’s hubby and Rodeo star, Ty Murray is partnered with newcomer Chelsie Hightower. Chelsie was also on So You Think You Can Dance - last season to be exact. I just LOVED her on there. I’m sure she will be a great addition to DWTS.

Karina Smirnoff is partnered with Apple Co-founder and probably known more as Kathy Griffin’s ex, Steve Wozniak.

No surprise here - Tony Dovolani is partnered with Nancy O’dell.  She is Tony’s typical partner. If you don’t know what I mean, think Leeza Gibbons,  Jane Seymour, and his latest typical partner Susan Lucci. The only two times where Tony had original partners was season 2 with Stacy Keibler and season 6 with Marissa Jaret Winokur. Let’s hope he has new tricks up his sleeve for Nancy. I want to see some raunch from his partners.

Kym Johnson is partnered with comedian David Alan Grier. He’s a funny guy and for once she is partnered with someone who is not huge in stature. One thing is for sure, he’ll provide huge laughs - not sure if that will help on the dance floor, however.

Season eight of DWTS premieres March 9 on ABC.

So tell me - what do you think of the pairings this season? I want to hear it - good or bad.