# DWTS Contestant You Never Want to See

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwts-contestant-you-never-want-to-see/583131>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 25, 2011, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwts-contestant-you-never-want-to-see/583131 "2011-05-25T10:50:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwts-contestant-you-never-want-to-see/583131/1 "2011-05-25T10:50:13Z")

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Dancing w/ the Stars being a contest, theoretically the stars want to be successful in order to win moola for their charity. But who should never even try? Who lacks the grace or focus or public interest to ever score a single vote?  
My choices:

**Robin Williams** - his partner would strangle him w/ a length of fake plant trunk from the studio and hide his body in the rafters to fall on Tom Bergeron at a key moment.

**Rachael Ray** - she’d giggle and stand in one place until being abandoned.

**John Sununu** - it wouldn’t even have trainwreck appeal, no one would tune in to see the guy who used gov’t helicopters for personal trips flail around in spats.

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**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwts-contestant-you-never-want-to-see/583131/2 "2011-05-25T11:35:41Z")

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lady gaga, chelsea handler, and monique. that’s also quite the lineup for kill/fuck/marry

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwts-contestant-you-never-want-to-see/583131/3 "2011-05-25T11:45:25Z")

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Betty White. I’m probably gonna take some flak for that one 😃

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**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwts-contestant-you-never-want-to-see/583131/4 "2011-05-25T11:47:33Z")

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Roseanne Barr

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwts-contestant-you-never-want-to-see/583131/5 "2011-05-25T12:11:34Z")

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John Sergeant  
Ann Widdecombe

Oh, wait…

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**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwts-contestant-you-never-want-to-see/583131/6 "2011-05-26T10:27:43Z")

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> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#):
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> Betty White. I’m probably gonna take some flak for that one 😃

You mean today Betty White, right, not 60 years ago Betty White? I bet she danced her ASS off in her prime, people knew how to dance then.  
Now she’d snap like the brittle bunch of twigs she is.

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**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwts-contestant-you-never-want-to-see/583131/7 "2011-05-26T13:46:48Z")

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Stephen Hawking?

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**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwts-contestant-you-never-want-to-see/583131/8 "2011-05-26T13:56:55Z")

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Adam Sandler (but he would get votes).

Gilbert Gottfried.

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwts-contestant-you-never-want-to-see/583131/9 "2011-05-26T13:57:57Z")

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Robert Irvine’s new show-_Dancing:Impossible_

Pat and Gina Neely-Would probably do each other on camera.

Gut Fieri-I didn’t know you can wear board shorts with a tux.  
Dance partner-Anne Burrell

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**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwts-contestant-you-never-want-to-see/583131/10 "2011-05-26T14:40:45Z")

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> [@pancakes3](#):
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> lady gaga, chelsea handler, and monique. that’s also quite the lineup for kill/fuck/marry

I’d actually like to see Lady Gag on DWTS, so i could watch her fall on her a$$

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**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwts-contestant-you-never-want-to-see/583131/11 "2011-05-26T14:45:51Z")

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> [@ministryman](#):
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> I’d actually like to see Lady Gag on DWTS, so i could watch her fall on her a$$

Your dollar signs reminded me to nominate:

Ke$ha

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**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwts-contestant-you-never-want-to-see/583131/12 "2011-05-26T14:58:04Z")

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> [@42fish](#):
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> Stephen Hawking?

For the win!
