For the first time in my life I deliberately turned on the TV when I got home from gym to watch Dancing with the Stars.
… Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson, at 16, the youngest competitor ever on “DWTS,†quickly stepped out as a front runner, scoring 23 out of 30 points in her first dance with partner Mark Ballas.
The two took on the waltz and the teen showed off smooth arm lines and fancy footing that impressed the judges.“I was truly moved,†a close-to-tears judge Carrie Ann Inaba said after the pair’s first dance. “You have the power to move people with your dancing… You’re very dynamic when you perform, Shawn.â€
But it was a non-athlete who took home the evening’s highest score during the season opener – “Sex and the City’s†man-candy, Gilles Marini. …
read more – Shawn Johnson, Gilles Marini Take Flight During ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Season Opener
See the video clip linked from the KCRG news site.
She will get through easily to the next round. Bookmaker.com has Shawn the favourite before the first show aired.
You can also vote online by logging in to their ABC TV DWTS voting page. Bookmark it if you want to keep voting through the upcoming rounds.
Personally, I’d like to see the eccentric but likeable billionaire Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak go far, as well.
Alan Abrahamson on Olympic Insider advises Shawn “go have FUN” and points out …
… If Shawn does well on “Stars,†she’d be out in L.A. until May. No way that would allow time to prepare for the 2009 world championships, in October in London. So this year is already probably gone. …
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Sorry Rick, Woz is among the top three to be eliminated next week. He’s bad. Horribly bad.
Well, since you all don’t like Shawn anyhow…to heck with gymnastics. You only need Shawn when she is getting it done for the team by going 8 for 8, and thus is the true AA gymnast. But then you turn and give the AA reward to a UB code whore (with lousy dismount and froggy leg giants), who lacks a double back on floor. You don’t deserve Shawn.
Haha… I watched the video, and in her interview she says she just wanted to do a good “routine.” That was really cute.
She looks beautiful out there… though I thought she said they wanted her to wear less revealing clothing because of her age? That looked PRETTY revealing. Sorry, I’ve never seen the show, but what exactly are the OLDER contestants wearing?
Kayla, that was not relvealing at all for a Waltz outfit… This is an “adult” Cha Cha outfit: http://www.rap-up.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/lil-kim-dwts.jpg
I hope for her sake she does well. Being very competitive myself I am sure she wants to make it to the final-whatever (I don’t watch that crap so I don’t know how it all works).
I will be honest and say that if she did not return to competing this year I would not be upset. I really want to see the young blood get out there and get some experience.
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