Dancing with the Stars Season 8 Judgement Night!

Posted By: admin On: March 18, 2009 Comments: ( 0 )

Did you watch the recap show? I didn’t. I watched the Biggest Loser - oops, another network, but who cares? I don’t need recaps because I watched it last night. And tonight we are starting it off with a musical guest Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Julianne, Cheryl, Derek, Lacey, Mark, and Tony Dovolani are doing the jive. I love the jive and I love the pairings of the couples during the song. Loved the beginning - for once.

Samantha is backstage with Steve-O who gives us an update on his condition. Steve said he had the bad idea to do the flip at the end, but he is back. He wants to stay in the competition for Lacey - awww - and he totally made it sound like it was his idea and not Lacey’s. Right well he should b/c I doubt Lacey wanted to do that stuff, but was just trying to please the daredevil Jackass that is Steve-O so I’m glad he set Carrie Ann straight b/c she did make it sound like it was Lacey’s fault last night. Shame on you, C.A. Tom sums it up “Lacey is the voice of caution.” That’s a good summary, Tom. We now go into recap mode now seeing who is in what place on the leaderboard. Boo.

We are going straight to the reveal with 4 safe couples. First couple safe is Lawrence Taylor and Edyta Sliwinska. Next safe are Shawn Johnson and Mark Ballas. Also back next week are Chuck Wicks and Julianne Hough. Finally David Alan Grier and Kym Johnson are also safe. Not really surprised at that.

Wow back from commercial and we are doing more safe couples. Next saved are Denise Richards and Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Followed by Melissa Rycroft and Tony Dovolani and Lil’ Kim and Derek Hough. Finally Gilles Marini and Cheryl Burke are also safe.

Oh lawdy - Cameron Mathison is back doing a survival guide for celebrities. First is don’t trip down the stairs - we then see Shawn Johnson tripping as well as Cameron falling down them during his season. Second is backstage is where you make friends and sike people out. He hugs Shawn Johnson and plays nice then tells her she is going down. I busted out laughing on that one. I know I shouldn’t since it is Cameron after all, but I couldn’t help it. He is so tall and telling little Shawn she is going down reminds me of Will Ferrell in one of his comedy sketches. Third is always cry in confession - we then see Shannon Elizabeth’s episode with Derek and Cameron trying to cry on cue, but can’t. Lastly is kiss up to the judges where he gives Bruno his dry cleaning of a thong. LOL! One tip is to make friends with the tan girl and lastly - don’t sign up at all. LOL! Ok, it was a little corny, but the whole Shawn Johnson scene made it all worth watching for me.

Macy’s Stars of Dance are on and guess what - I am fast fowarding it since I’m behind. If I don’t see my pros dancing then forget it. After commercial break we have more performances. Now up is Jewel while newcomer pro’s Dmitry Chaplin and Chelsie Hightower perform. Jewel performs “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and I must say she can sing. Chelsie is looking beautiful in a pale pinkish beige dress and her hair is gorgeous. Dmitry of course has his shirt open which is his trademark from So You Think You Can Dance. Chelsie does a move where she runs up on stage behind Jewel and jumps off into Dmitry’s arms and it was beautiful! During the end it seemed like Jewel had a big frog in her throat and was trying to get it out - not too beautiful, but overall she sounded great.

Tom said that viewer’s voted on their dance for this season and this time viewers chose the Quickstep. Remember last year viewers chose the jive and then got to pick the song and dancers. Well, they are doing that again this year and the Quickstep won. Next thing to vote on is what song - so get your voting on, peeps.

Now the stars are sizing up their competition and you can watch that b/c I am not recapping it. After that bit we are left with the 5 couples that are left and now we are going to find out who are in the bottom 2. First safe couple out of this bunch are Holly Madison and Dmitry Chaplin. Next returning is Ty Murray and Chelsie Hightower. Also safe is Steve-O and Lacey Schwimmer. The bottom 2 couples are Belinda Carlisle and Jonthon Roberts as well as Steve Wozniak and Karina Smirnoff. No surprise on Steve, but Belinda I thought would have more of a following.

Let the dance off begin! We see some practice footage where Belinda works on her hips this morning and now we have the dance off where she is doing the Salsa again. Looks like she had some timing issues and couldn’t get an arm or something to do a trick, but I think she will be staying tonight because Steve is so bad. Len said we saw more hip action, but she forgot some steps. Carrie Ann said she enjoyed watching her this time, but the middle section wasn’t an improvement tonight. Scores were 2 6’s and a 5 from Carrie Ann for a total of 17 out of 30. Their score tonight was 1 point lower.

Steve Wozniak and Karina Smirnoff are back doing the Quickstep. They practice hard on not missing a beat this time. We shall see. Looks like he got tangled up a bit on the same spot again, but not as noticeable as last night. The crowd is on their feet tonight. Bruno said he admires his determination and sunny disposition, but he is not a good dancer. He does love watching him though. C.A. said she thought they were better tonight. Len admires him for practicing more, but said there wasn’t a lot of improvement. He said he was the best for fun and entertainment though. Scores were 2 6’s and a 5 from Len for a total of 17 out of 30 which is the same score they had last time.

Oh by the way - our scores still count for 50% of the final total so the judges do not get the final say - I’m glad for that. We got to commercial while they are figuring the scores. Which begs the question - does the dance off really have to be necessary? Anyways, leaving us tonight are Belinda Carlisle and Jonathon Roberts. Booo! Guess she won’t get her chance to lose weight with Nutrisytem and become the next Marie Osmond. THANK GAWD FOR THAT! See ya next week!