Everybody Dance Now

Today they announced the next round of what used to be C-List has-beens for this season of Dancing With The Stars...

For a show that used to have to beg borrow and steal for what barely passed as celebrites, it seems that DWTS have stepped it up again this year... I am just shocked what and amazing venue for re-inventing careers this show has become... And today they have the clout to get, well, Cloris Leachman?

Really? Are you so desperate to amuse people by embarrassing others that you would put an 82 year old dancer on the stage just to be funny? And the poor kid she's paired with... Making his DWTS Stars debut, Corky Ballas, son of defending DWTS champ Mark Ballas... Poor kid doesn't have a chance... Given Cloris' raunchy reputation all I can say to this kid is "Earmuffs"... I am really disappointed by this...

But there is also some interesting talent this season... They have Brook Burke (girl crush), Celebrity Hottie, erm, Chef Rocco DiSpirito, Toni Braxton, that kid from Hannah Montana, they have Susan Lucci for goodness sakes... I for one am looking forward to this season!

I remember when DWTS first premiered ... Well not really because I didn't watch ... Why would I? ... It sounded like the dumbest TV show ever ... Take that back, The LAMEST TV show ever ... They had that short list of actors that no-one recognized by name, but when you saw their picture you were like, "Yeah, that guy was on that one show, what was that show again?"

Today DWTS has one of the highly coveted Top Ten spots on my Tivo... An impressive feat in my household that has 3 of them currently in panic mode over Tuesday nights this fall, but that's another blog...

I just love Tom Bergeron on this show, I love the shiny costumes, I loved Jerry Springer, I loved Joey Fatone, they had my boy Jason Taylor on (well not my boy anymore, but more on that after pre-season is over)

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Here's your list of stars and their partners for This season of DWTS:

Warren "token NFL player" Sapp & Kym Johnson

Jeffrey "I'm filthier than Bob Saget" Ross & Edyta "I'll never win DWTS" Sliwinska

Ted "Remember Me?" McGinley & Inna "you haven't heard of me yet" Brayer

Misty "I"ve got sand in my shoe" May-Treanor & Maksim "Mr. Runner-up" Chmerkovskiy

Susan Lucci & Tony "I can't grow chest hair" Dovolani

Cody Linley & Julianne "My singing career didn't take off" Hough

Cloris "Will this show be in color" Leachman & Corky Ballas

Kim "My Mom married someone famous" Kardashian & Mark Ballas

Maurice "I was in the Olympics too" Green & Cheryl Burke

Rocco DiSpirito & Karina "Mario Who?" Smirnoff

Brook "I'm still hot after 4 kids" Burke & Derek "My sister is the hot dancer" Hough

Toni Braxton & Alec "Remember me? I won season one?" Mazo

Lance "Why am I partnered with a girl... They're icky" Bass & Lacey "So I Think I Can Dance" Schwimmer