Link. Looks like the usual delightful mix of second tier celebs and athletes. No deaf amputees this season, though.
Cloris Leachman is 82. She’s wonderful and I love her, but that’s absurd.
Good lord, 82? That’s beyond “absurd” and well into “surreal.”
'struth. I’m sure she’s in excellent shape, but how she will do this without hurting herself is beyond me. If she were a man, it might be one thing, but as a woman… What the hell are they thinking?
Lessee, here: comedian, check; boy band member, check; Disney Channel regular, check; football player, check; Olympics competitor, check; geriatric actor/actress, check.
Seriously, though. Cloris Leachman? Seems to be pushing the outside of the envelope just a bit there.
It’d be nice to see a baseball player or NASCAR driver in the mix at least once, but I guess the length and demands of their respective seasons make it pretty unlikely.
Jeffrey Ross? The guy who’s the most vulgar of all celebrity roasters? Really?
(I love that guy)
6 posts in and I’m the first to mention Ted McGinley?
Do you know what this means? The death knell has just rung for Dancing with the Stars! The Tedster is practically the Grim Reaper for TV shows.
Oh, and I predict an early exit for Jeffrey Ross. Put him in the same room with Kim Kardashian (sex tape), Brooke Burke (Playboy), Misty May-Treanor (wears a tiny bikini as her day job uniform), and Cloris Leachman (ummm, old?) every week, and he’s bound to say something that will cost ABC a hefty FCC fine. I can’t frickin’ wait!
Ted McGinley is perfect for this show! I might even watch because of him.
Yeah, and this should be the last season for sure. Poor Ted…
Cloris Leachman? They should toss Charlotte Rae into the mix so we can answer the age-old debate once and for all: Who was the better “Facts of Life” mentor?
Genius!
(Did you know that Charlotte Rae appears in the movie version of Hair? Do you care?)
By the way, Maks fans, he’s paired with Misty May-Treanor. (Detailed lineup info here.)
Partners:
Lance Bass – Lacey Schwimmer (new)
Toni Braxton – Alec Mazo
Brooke Burke – Derek Hough
Rocco DiSpirito – Karina Smirnoff
Maurice Greene – Cheryl Burke
Kim Kardashian – Mark Ballas (defending champion)
Cloris Leachman – Corky Ballas (new; World Latin Champion and Mark’s father)
Cody Linley (youngest contestant ever) – Julianne Hough
Susan Lucci – Tony Dovolani
Misty May-Treanor – Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Ted McGinley – Inna Brayer (new)
Jeffrey Ross – Edyta Sliwinska (only pro to compete in all seven seasons)
Warren Sapp – Kym Johnson
Susan Lucci has to be pushing 60.
Misty May. Woohoo! And paired with Maks. Bestill my libido.
I don’t see that going well. Maks is good with the right person, and not so much with the wrong.
Tony and Susan Lucci should do…the same as Tony did with Leeza Gibbons & Jane Seymour.
She’s 61 – and no doubt thrilled that they’re going to wheel Cloris Leachman out to be the oldest-contestant-ever.
They’re eliminating two people the first week – CL will probably be one – any guesses who the other will be?
I dunno. Maks tends to do well with strong personalities. May is a goofball but she’s also a serious competitor. You don’t dominate like she has and win two gold medals without being competitive. And with all the training she does off-season to whip herself into shape, she has the stamina and motivation to do well in this competition.
In other words, I think she has as strong an ego as Maks’. And that might = fireworks.
I’m betting she’ll last five or six weeks. She has a great sense of humor, and I’d be willing to bet she’s got some dance in her background, or she wouldn’t even have considered this at her age.
ETA: The audience will eat her up.
ETAA: Cloris Leachman, that is.
I know Ted is right up there with Alison La Placa as a showkiller, but don’t forget the greatest sitcom of all time, Married with Children, continued for 6 1/2 seasons after Ted joined the cast.