Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Dancing with the Stars Increases During Season Four

By Karri Owens


With all the latest season of Dancing with the Stars starting on March 19, 2007, the show hit the soil running and never looked back. Several adjustments were designed to the show though to improve the overall flow. The first change that was in store was the transfer of timeslots. This was actually done to accommodate a larger audience that would otherwise potentially be ended watching American Idol on Fox, in lieu of tuning into Dancing with the Stars. Additional changes included as well waiting until the end of week 2 to start out actually eliminating contestants. A final change was airing the show in the UK, which had not been done previously.

Extracting the contestants for season four would have been a lot of enjoyment, with a variety of athletes, singers, and even actors combined together it created a really enjoyable show.

Paulina Porizkova a supermodel was combined with Alec Mazo and was the first contestant that was sent home. Paulina and Alec departed the show on March 26, 2007 after only two weeks on the show.

Shandi Finnessey has enjoyed a profession as a former Miss USA plus a game show host. Partnered up with Brian Fortuna she was also struck from your show extremely quickly and located herself removed on April 3, 2007.

Leeza Gibbons a talk show host was paired up with professional Tony Dovolani and only stayed for 4 episodes prior to being eliminated from the show on April 10, 2007.

Clyde Drexler a retired NBA player was partnered with professional Elena Grinenko and was eliminated on April 17, 2007 after holding on for several weeks.

The former wife of Beatle Paul McCartney, Heather Mills was on the show for season four too. Her official job was listed as Charity Campaigner; however, it is not been verified as there is some difficulty locating her actual job. It turned out rumored that her stay on the show was dragged out due to the publicity surrounding her extremely public divorce to Paul McCartney. Because the only contestant with a prosthetic leg, she only had one incident where her leg made a problem. She was partnered with Jonathan Roberts and was eliminated finally on April 24, 2007.

John Ratzenberger an actor with credits including the hit tv show Cheers was partnered with professional Edyta Sliwinska but was eliminated on May 1, 2007.

Billy Ray Cyrus the main one hit wonder of the 1990's was partnered up with Karina Smirnoff. Presently best known as the father of Hannah Montana star, Miley Cyrus he was eliminated from your show on May 8, 2007.

Ian Ziering an actor with credits that include the popular show Beverly Hills, 90210 was partnered with professional Cheryl Burke for his stick to the show. After an elimination on May 15, 2007, they finished in fourth place.

Laila Ali the daughter of Mohammad Ali in addition to a professional Boxing World Champion. Partnered with professional Maksim Chmerkovskiy she pulled out a third place finish on May 22, 2007 on the season finale.

Joey Fatone from the 90's boy band 'N Sync was partnered with Kym Johnson and removed a second place finish. Despite an extremely limited career outside of music before his appearance on the program, he was extremely popular with all the audience and received a large amount of votes.

Apolo Anton Ohno is a five time Olympic Medalist to put it briefly Track Speed skating. After winning two gold, one silver as well as two bronze medals in the Olympics Apolo appeared on season four of Dwts and was partnered in addition to professional Julianne Hough and danced his method to victory yet again by winning the title and first instance in the season finale on May 22, 2007.

With the wide range of celebrities involved, it absolutely was only natural for a little bit of controversy to follow as well. The biggest controversies included Vincent Pastore an actor pulling out in the show right before it began. Originally partnered with Edyta Sliwinska he was replaced by John Ratzenberger. There have been two professionals who pulled out of this season as well, Ashly DelGrosso pulled out as a result of pregnancy and Louis van Amstel removed due to personal reasons but nonetheless appeared as a professional dancer for performances and assisted with choreography.




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