Saturday, February 11, 2012

Dancing with the Stars Gets larger During Season Four

By Aaron B. Baker


While using latest season of Dancing with the Stars starting on March 19, 2007, the show hit the bottom running and never looked back. Several adjustments were designed to the show though to further improve the overall flow. The first change that has been in store was the change in timeslots. This was actually done to accommodate a bigger audience that would otherwise potentially be wrapped up watching American Idol on Fox, rather than tuning into Dancing with the Stars. Additional changes also included waiting until the end of week 2 to get started on actually eliminating contestants. A final change was airing the show in england, which had not been done previously.

Pulling out the contestants for season four was a lot of enjoyment, with a variety of athletes, singers, and even actors used together it created a really enjoyable show.

Paulina Porizkova a supermodel was combined with Alec Mazo and was the first contestant that was told to go home. Paulina and Alec departed the show on March 26, 2007 for only two weeks on the show.

Shandi Finnessey has enjoyed a career as a former Miss USA in addition to a game show host. Partnered on top of Brian Fortuna she was also struck through the show extremely quickly and found herself removed on April 3, 2007.

Leeza Gibbons a talk show host was paired up with professional Tony Dovolani and only stayed for 4 episodes before being eliminated from the show on April 10, 2007.

Clyde Drexler a retired NBA player was partnered with professional Elena Grinenko and was eliminated on April 17, 2007 after securing for several weeks.

The former wife of Beatle Paul McCartney, Heather Mills was on the show for season four too. Her official job was listed as Charity Campaigner; however, it's not been verified while there is some difficulty locating her actual job. It absolutely was rumored that her stay on the show was dragged out as a result of publicity surrounding her extremely public divorce to Paul McCartney. As the only contestant with a prosthetic leg, she only had one incident where her leg developed a problem. She was partnered with Jonathan Roberts and was eliminated finally on April 24, 2007.

John Ratzenberger an actress with credits including the hit tv program Cheers was partnered with professional Edyta Sliwinska but was eliminated on May 1, 2007.

Billy Ray Cyrus usually the one hit wonder of the 1990's was partnered track of Karina Smirnoff. Presently best known as the father of Hannah Montana star, Miley Cyrus he was eliminated in the show on May 8, 2007.

Ian Ziering an actress with credits that include the popular show Beverly Hills, 90210 was partnered with professional Cheryl Burke for his remain on the show. After an elimination on May 15, 2007, they finished in fourth place.

Laila Ali the daughter of Mohammad Ali and also a professional Boxing World Champion. Partnered with professional Maksim Chmerkovskiy she pulled out a third place finish on May 22, 2007 at the season finale.

Joey Fatone from the 90's boy band 'N Sync was partnered with Kym Johnson and brought out a second place finish. Despite an exceptionally limited career outside of music before his appearance on the program, he was extremely popular with all the audience and received a large amount of votes.

Apolo Anton Ohno is a five time Olympic Medalist in a nutshell Track Speed skating. After winning two gold, one silver as well as two bronze medals in the Olympics Apolo appeared on season four of Dancing with the Stars and was partnered along with professional Julianne Hough and danced his method to victory yet again by winning the title and to begin with in the season finale on May 22, 2007.

With the wide range of celebrities involved, it had been only natural for a amount of controversy to follow as well. The greatest controversies included Vincent Pastore an actor pulling out of the show right before it began. Originally partnered with Edyta Sliwinska he was replaced by John Ratzenberger. There was two professionals who pulled out of the season as well, Ashly DelGrosso pulled out as a result of pregnancy and Louis van Amstel pulled out due to personal reasons but nonetheless appeared as a professional dancer for performances and assisted with choreography.




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