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Dancing Pros Bare Their Claws over Cheetah Girl's Cut
Mark Ballas, Sabrina Bryan, Edyta Sliwinska and Cameron Mathison by Carol Kaelson/ABC
Dancing with the Stars hoofer Maksim Chmerkovskiy is sock-hopping mad. No way should Sabrina Bryan and soap stud Cameron Mathison have been in the bottom two this week, he railed to TV's Extra: "There were celebrities that should've been eliminated. The two in the bottom two were not [them]." (Marie Osmond, cute as ya are, I think he might be talking to you.) Added judge Carrie Ann Inaba: "I'm kind of heartbroken. As a female competitor, we have never seen anybody as good as Sabrina." Um, excuse me, but Stacy Keibler?
Related: Backstage at Dancing with the Stars: A Recount Is Demanded!
Thursday's Today's News was written by Ben Katner.
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Nov 1, 2007 9:48 AM
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Stacy was good, no doubt. With the exception of that horrible 70s freestyle that eventually did her in, she was the strongest female competitor ever on DWTS prior to this season. Yes, I'm including that dancing troll doll who eventually 'won' season 1.
However, Sabrina was dynamite from the moment she stepped on the stage. Even Kiebler had a learning curve. She didn't deserve to go.
TPTB should review the judges' scoring methodology. Perhaps they should be given the leeway to lop off half points. This might also help with logjams of couples with the exact same score for the first few weeks.
Marie and Jane, as darling as they are, should be the next two to go. Jane, especially, would have gone far in a weaker season, but this season is exceptionally strong and the culling must begin.
On a completely different note -- Johnathan Roberts is married to Anna Trebunksaya? It looks that way from the pictures posted here today. I never knew!
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Nov 1, 2007 10:46 AM
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Stacy was just as good if not better than Sabrina. Carrie Ann herself had even said Stacy was better than some of the female professionals.
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Nov 1, 2007 10:51 AM
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If these two are suggesting there may have been a technical error, it's quite possible and I hope it will be looked into. But if these two are joining in on the "this is a dance contest not a popularity contest"....
It is part popularity contest - and if you have a personality that rubs some the wrong way (and that's what I'm hearing from ALOT of people - although personally I fast-forward through the interviews and just watch the dance stuff, so I have no idea what her personality is), no matter how good a dancer you are, people aren't going to vote for you if they don't like you. I've also heard and read alot of complaints about Cameron Mathison constantly compalining about his schedule. Again, that doesn't affect my opinion, I'm just the messenger.
My own theory is that in previous seasons, by this time you pretty much only had three or four very strong performers left splitting what I would call the technical vote - those who vote more talent - as the mere fan favs fell off.
This time you had at least 6 very strong performers going into this week. That meant the technical vote was spread too thin, and without an equal fan base Sabrina and Cameron had the lowest scores.
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Nov 1, 2007 11:01 AM
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Comments like this and others I've been seeing this week strike me as completely ridiculous given the premise of the show. From the beginning, the premise has been that success is a function both of impressing the judges AND building a motivated fan base.
Some stars bring that motivated fan base with them (Kelly Monaco comes to mind) and others have to build it from scratch (Apollo Anton Ohno who?).
For whatever reason, Sabrina did not build a motivated fan base. And, well, that's a shame since she is talented and sincere...but, well, the premise of the show is that fan participation counts.
And, frankly, if the judges were the only people with a vote, would the show be as popular as it is? The fan participation aspect is what makes it a phenomenon rather than just watching a ballroom dance competition on PBS.
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Nov 1, 2007 11:02 AM
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True dat.
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Nov 1, 2007 11:20 AM
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In regards to building a fan base Sabrina, I feel, had a huge fan base. I myself only watched the show to see the smile on my daughters face every week and we voted for her every time along with almost every girl who knows the Cheetah Girls. Every Monday my daughter would spend the time watching TV and talking with her friends on the phone and computer to make sure they were all watching and voting. I am shocked like many others and I am wondering what went wrong as well. I find it hard to believe that someone who was continuiously in the top two every week fall all the way to bottom in one show. This reminds me of several American Idol shows that went strange as well.
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Nov 1, 2007 11:27 AM
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I loved Staci Kiebler, but even she didn't compare to the skill level and precision Sabrina did these dances with. I've been watching since the first show of the first season and after this, I'm not sure I will watch again. I'm just bummed out by the whole thing.
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Nov 1, 2007 11:28 AM
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Even though it is a dancing contest, personality and a VOTING fan base play a huge part in the results. Cheetah Girl is popular with the under 12 crowd, but are they voting? To those of us over 12 she was a good dancer but she was so annoying otherwise. Also, I'd much rather the winner have to work at being a dancer. I love seeing the progress each week.
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Nov 1, 2007 11:46 AM
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Stacy was good, but not as good as Sabrina. I think Sabrina is the best star dancer that's ever been on the show.
I saw Sabrina on Jimmy Kimmel and was really impressed with her. She had a great attitude, was sad she was eliminated, but talked about how much she enjoyed it and she got to hang out at a Spice Girls' house!, and all the stuff she has coming up. I'm really proud of my Delta Gamma sister and will be looking forward to her future endeavors. Plus, I'm sure she'll be back for the DWTS finale.
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Nov 1, 2007 11:47 AM
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I am glad that Sabrina is gone. She was getting favortism from Carrie Ann and I think she had to much dance experience. Plus she came off as cocky. I agree that Marie and Jane shouldn't be in the bottom two and they should be the next ones to go. I think the bottom two will be Mel B and Helio.
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Nov 1, 2007 11:47 AM
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Well it looks like here is another show that started out so promising that I will no longer be wasting my time watching.
It used to be entertaining, but not anymore.
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Nov 1, 2007 11:49 AM
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Sabrina shouldn't have been allowed into the competition in the first place, since she's a professional dancer. The other stars are having to work harder in a field that's foreign to them.
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Nov 1, 2007 11:52 AM
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The rules are the rules so everyone needs to abide by them and stop being a sore loser. Sure Sabrina has energy and talent but too much for slow dances. She would have never pulled off a waltz. So let it go people. She's out.
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Nov 1, 2007 11:53 AM
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Considering Jane's comments likening Mel/Maks' rhumba to walking across the floor and patting the judges, Maks could just as well have been talking about Jane.
No question, based on the dances of the week, the Bottom Two should've been Jane and Marie, and they did score the worst with the judges. But the judges' scores are always so closely packed, from first to last, as to make them virtually irrelevent in the final scheme of things. It always comes down to audience vote and, most often (and as we saw with this week's Bottom Two), the couples in the most danger are the ones grouped in the middle of the judges' scores. Potential voters think they're safe enough.
Of course, being in the Bottom Two can work a charm on the couple not eliminated. Look at Mel and Jane, who've yet to return to the Bottom Two since they first found themselves there. Hopefully, Cameron will have the same luck.
Then again, with Sabrina who's always scored very high with the judges, till this week, maybe her audience votes have never matched that. Maybe she's never been as popular with the audience as some of the others, and with her relatively low scores this week, it all served to do her in. This is more a popularity contest more than a dancing contest, after all.
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Nov 1, 2007 11:57 AM
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